Deuce

One bark for yes two for no. Or the dog stops licking? Ewwwww.

Nice. This is mine. Hey Monouno, you gotta picture of your ride handy?

They weren't there. I'da got more RW loads if they were. Yeah, wierd, now that you mention it. We were just freaks all day...

Yeah, Lew, I just follow that Quade guy around. It's working pretty good so far. Hey, Lew, the bottom is probably going to drop out on the D60's and 30's. Check Ebay. This is it. Digital is here. If it's gotten to where I can use it, well, you know, it's, uh, usable. I mean, if I developed all those pictures I shot on Sunday it would've been over a hundred bucks to see what I was doing. I get about 78 jumps days a year, so to see that much of my still work is worth almost 8 grand a year. This is a huge advantage in training for stills work, or a crutch. But just taking what I learned from last week to this week is huge progress. I figure Tall Guy is gonna want that exit shot from the King in 30 X 60 and that will cover a couple of my fun jumps Sunday. I'm just curious where the break is between charging a premium and making it up on low-cost volume. I want people to have good skydiving pictures of themselves, but I want to recover the cost of this stuff too.

It's a 6.3 megapixel Canon 10D. We weather held for about 45 minutes and the industrial haze got pretty thick for a while, but I think we got 11 or 12 loads up, I got 7. Thanks Matt

You have entered a search term that is likely to return adult content. OK, I don't want to know. I was curious, but not that curious. The Howard Stern book, huh?

Or, you know, just indulge yourself in a full foaming at the mouth panic! We'll get plenty of pictures of your rig in a couple weeks (2!) and I'll even show you how to make the camera go.

Yeah, man. Something like that would probably leave a mark!

John, I'm a goofball, and Quade is a guy that gets paid to do this kinda stuff at his freaking day job, so he's got discipline and I don't. I went through two batteries Sunday. I mean I'm showing pictures to everybody, zooming in, showing them on TV, taking flash pictures. So if you shoot 300 shots, and goof around with each of them, get three batteries. (Man, I just know Q is rolling his eyes!) I took those pictures with the Canon 20mm (32mm on the 10D), and the ground shots with a Canon 28-200. The 512 card holds 218 pictures. I use a conceptus tongue switch. I am usually laughing in freefall, so a blow switch wouldn't work for me. You can smile around a tongue switch to get your tandem passengers to smile. I don't know about bite switches. Oh, get the fastest memory card. Q-dog helped me out with this, too. Not all flash memory is the same. I have Sandisk Ultra Compact Flash. It's way faster than regular Sandisk compactflash. Fast matters a lot when you're cranking out launches and landing shots.

Any conversation you start with the words "Listen f*cker" will usually go bad. They're delivering it to school? I can hear it now "Heads on your desks! Quiet time! Hotmamamonkey got herself a new toy!"

Well you did ears, I guess we shoulda figured we'd get here... (you get that disc?) Oh, and if you don't have video, you didn't wipe!

Yeah, I noted in the talkback forum that my discipline is lacking. I can delete even more, but, heck, I'm just drunk on the power of this whole digital SLR thing! It's like a rifle with a 2000 round drum magazine! "Fire discipline, Maggot!" Yes. Good idea about separate galleries for tandems! Thanks. I'll delete both the galleries and reload them from albums with vividpics off. Thanks for this info, I wasn't aware. I have never seen so many of my stills before. This is a totally shazam way to bring the bar up on stills work. Instant feedback. It's kinda like tunnel time for photo fliers. I'm diggin it

"This wouldn't have happened if you'd gotten a Wings" Right Heather?

My man, let me pay this stuff off first! NEVER try out shit you're not ready to buy! We'll get Mujie on your back and then I'll track with you! Two weeks! Yeee-har! Thanks Quade, very much. I cross posted to the Photography site where I'm ready to get basted for my shutter settings, cropping, and color saturation shortfalls.

I really worked it out this past Sunday. Between this very easy to operate, very effective camera and the shutterfly site, there is some, if not profit, then cost recovery. I'm thinking boogies are going to be pretty effectively handled between the two. We were talking about printing instant gratification 8 X 10's, but I really think I'm happier with Shutterfly doing all the work. Anyhow, here's the galleries, the shots from this past Sunday really pleased me. A 512mb card holds 218 giant file photos. It's easy to take that many. I'm working on my discipline, but this things just so much fun. http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/JPKelly/Skydive

Tony bumper suit (RW) I haul. Firefly freefly suit I still haul. Tony Camera suit with huge wings so I don't haul.

Super cool.

Sorry, Leese! I'll lend you one of my rigs. But I want to video the opening! If you fall out I'll just swoop down and catch you. Heck, if Keanu can do it I sure as hell can! XO

You know, without the help of the folks at my DZ, and the invaluable help I've gotten online and in-person from my best freinds here, I would still be a flailing basketcase. Particularly Quade, Josh, and Mike(s) have really accelerated my ability to do decent stuff with camera and video. So check out my skydives from last weekend. I mean, some of these pictures are focused and everything. The file dates are wrong, it's May now, not April. http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/JPKelly/Skydive But 50 is just cool, 148 shows the before shot on a horrific spanking cobalt opening. If you look at the picture you'll see that the pilot chute isn't cocked (correct me if I'm wrong). 169 is Alana with the expression she always has on her face when she's in freefall, kinda reminds me of SkyRose, but Mary's not quite so "BANZAI" as Alana. In 188 Keith is yelling at Vic "You're Arching!" on the video you can see Vic yell back "NO I'M NOT!", and 196 is just a super cool shot of Q in a Buddha over Vic. I wouldn't be able to do this stuff without a lot of help from the Skydiving community. Thanks. -I'm not selling you guys pictures. The gallery is a way for me to show you lots of cool pictures without eating up Sangiro's bandwidth. I'm working the tandem passengers who didn't get video for pictures! OH, and the guy and girl at the end are Evan and Doreen. Evan was back in the air for the first time after ripping the shiite out of his knee crashing into that pond. He looks like he killed a giant lizard! Peaceandloveandharmony! JP

I'm sorry for your loss, Mary. Clearly, the world is going to be a darker place for a while. But the sun will come out, bright and clear, one day soon. Think of your dear freind, feel the sun on your face, and smile for him. JP

Yeah, no shit. Just understanding the stuff enough to be able to ask decent questions is such a big deal. Without this forum it would take FOREVER. And Quade is about one of the most generous people I have ever met, with both camera info and plain old hospitality. I was scared to death the first time I met him at Perris and he asked to see my helmet! I tell you, If I was planning on doing tandem, or any other kind of commercial shooting I'd get the Bat Rack. I'm happy with my Hawkeye, but I wouldn't mikd another mounting plate on top. Really, just copy Quade

Hey, gorgeous! I'm drinking box wine. It's really good, but I'm drinking it like Kool-aid. Uh, Merlot. 5 liters. One liter per night, Monday through Friday. I don't have to drink on the weekends, I like the skydiving job! Feliz Cumpleanos, chiquita guapita! Tome conmigo! Arriba! Big fun is right around the corner, rackzilla! JP

The prospect of a beery breathed big-assed rack hug has me feeling pretty good. (The hug is big-assed, not the Skybytch) What, Lisa, you forget what a huge freaking pile of fun you are? Hey, Bonnie has these cool T-shirts that say "Fast as Fuck" on them, you want to trade for some sorta cool Square One shirt that my kids could read out loud? I only wear my Back the Fuck Up T shirt when walking in parades with the Girl Scout Troupe. Oh, and a DZ.com invasions. Hooty-hoo!

Hey! and I'm picking you up at the airport, so there's another $50 bucks. It's raining money!

Hey Bets, I MISS NOTHING! HA-HAR! I got a pile of DZ.commers loaded into the cell phone and I'll be there Wednesday. Somebody save me the primo tent spot for me to plant the pink flamingo! I will be arriving in a bright red pickup with a hundred and thirty horses in the bed amid a huge cloud of dust an the roar of rock-n-roll music with boxes and boxes of skydiving and video equipment. Oh I love B-squared! Oh yes I do We're gonna go skydive Like best friends do! Hee hee hee!