Revvers II Pics & Videos
10-27-2006, 01:07 PM
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One last photograph.
I set my camera up on my tripod and started shooting pictures. My idea was to create a panoramic picture, for making a Photo Field for the Real Flight sim. I had no idea what to do, so I just shot pics like crazy, just moving the camera a few degrees each time. Turns out, that was way too close to each other. Picture a slide printed on slightly tinted glass. Now lay five slides over each other in a staggered layer. It gets slightly darker as it goes from left to right, slide #1 to slide #5. That was the first problem too much overlap. The second problem for use in Real Flight, was that I need to also take the same overlapping series of photos aimed at the sky, and the ground. When I imported my pano pic into Real Flight, it stretched it so much to make it fit that everything was distorted terribly. So it is unusable as a Photo Field.
I shot 173 pictures. I had to merge 5 pics at a time. Which ended up with 35 sub-pano's. Those were refined another 5 at a time to make 7 sub-sub-pano's. Those were refined to make 2 sub-sub-sub-pano's. Finally, I got one finished Rabbit Lake Panorama. This pic is a high quality version and it is 2MB. The max quality pic is 10MB. It took me 4 hours of work to produce this photograph.
http://www.fototime.com/D637C9AD363CAB2/orig.jpg
I set my camera up on my tripod and started shooting pictures. My idea was to create a panoramic picture, for making a Photo Field for the Real Flight sim. I had no idea what to do, so I just shot pics like crazy, just moving the camera a few degrees each time. Turns out, that was way too close to each other. Picture a slide printed on slightly tinted glass. Now lay five slides over each other in a staggered layer. It gets slightly darker as it goes from left to right, slide #1 to slide #5. That was the first problem too much overlap. The second problem for use in Real Flight, was that I need to also take the same overlapping series of photos aimed at the sky, and the ground. When I imported my pano pic into Real Flight, it stretched it so much to make it fit that everything was distorted terribly. So it is unusable as a Photo Field.
I shot 173 pictures. I had to merge 5 pics at a time. Which ended up with 35 sub-pano's. Those were refined another 5 at a time to make 7 sub-sub-pano's. Those were refined to make 2 sub-sub-sub-pano's. Finally, I got one finished Rabbit Lake Panorama. This pic is a high quality version and it is 2MB. The max quality pic is 10MB. It took me 4 hours of work to produce this photograph.
http://www.fototime.com/D637C9AD363CAB2/orig.jpg
10-27-2006, 09:39 PM
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I didn't know you guys had access to MARS as an airfield... 
On the other hand... we are just poor $uckers when it comes to having space like that... I ENVY you guys!
On the other hand... we are just poor $uckers when it comes to having space like that... I ENVY you guys!
10-28-2006, 09:07 PM
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That sure was a great time! I was a bit disappointed that I only got one flight with my Patriot, before the firewall determined it had irreconcilable differences with the rest of the fuse. And that 1 flight, I had forgotten to attach the pressure line to the muffler so the performance was not very good --- [X(]
Next time we need to stage some stuff for Tom's video... High speed, low altitude, gear-up passes and the like-
Here is my favorite pic from Revver's II --- Big thanks to Tom for the outstanding video and pics from the day---
Next time we need to stage some stuff for Tom's video... High speed, low altitude, gear-up passes and the like-
Here is my favorite pic from Revver's II --- Big thanks to Tom for the outstanding video and pics from the day---
10-28-2006, 10:30 PM
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ORIGINAL: Kmot
One last photograph.
I set my camera up on my tripod and started shooting pictures. My idea was to create a panoramic picture, for making a Photo Field for the Real Flight sim. I had no idea what to do, so I just shot pics like crazy, just moving the camera a few degrees each time. Turns out, that was way too close to each other. Picture a slide printed on slightly tinted glass. Now lay five slides over each other in a staggered layer. It gets slightly darker as it goes from left to right, slide #1 to slide #5. That was the first problem too much overlap. The second problem for use in Real Flight, was that I need to also take the same overlapping series of photos aimed at the sky, and the ground. When I imported my pano pic into Real Flight, it stretched it so much to make it fit that everything was distorted terribly. So it is unusable as a Photo Field.
I shot 173 pictures. I had to merge 5 pics at a time. Which ended up with 35 sub-pano's. Those were refined another 5 at a time to make 7 sub-sub-pano's. Those were refined to make 2 sub-sub-sub-pano's. Finally, I got one finished Rabbit Lake Panorama. This pic is a high quality version and it is 2MB. The max quality pic is 10MB. It took me 4 hours of work to produce this photograph.
http://www.fototime.com/D637C9AD363CAB2/orig.jpg
One last photograph.
I set my camera up on my tripod and started shooting pictures. My idea was to create a panoramic picture, for making a Photo Field for the Real Flight sim. I had no idea what to do, so I just shot pics like crazy, just moving the camera a few degrees each time. Turns out, that was way too close to each other. Picture a slide printed on slightly tinted glass. Now lay five slides over each other in a staggered layer. It gets slightly darker as it goes from left to right, slide #1 to slide #5. That was the first problem too much overlap. The second problem for use in Real Flight, was that I need to also take the same overlapping series of photos aimed at the sky, and the ground. When I imported my pano pic into Real Flight, it stretched it so much to make it fit that everything was distorted terribly. So it is unusable as a Photo Field.
I shot 173 pictures. I had to merge 5 pics at a time. Which ended up with 35 sub-pano's. Those were refined another 5 at a time to make 7 sub-sub-pano's. Those were refined to make 2 sub-sub-sub-pano's. Finally, I got one finished Rabbit Lake Panorama. This pic is a high quality version and it is 2MB. The max quality pic is 10MB. It took me 4 hours of work to produce this photograph.
http://www.fototime.com/D637C9AD363CAB2/orig.jpg
What the heck were you, now thats just the coolest thing!
I forgot to ask, other than the motor home, did you all camp out their?
10-28-2006, 10:40 PM
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Very cool Kmot, your effort with the pics and videos is amazing!!!
I myself was at a dry lake today, although much, much bigger than Rabbit...
44 square miles of dry lake bed.....
There were planes there too, but much bigger and (gulp) much faster than our planes...
I myself was at a dry lake today, although much, much bigger than Rabbit...
44 square miles of dry lake bed.....
There were planes there too, but much bigger and (gulp) much faster than our planes...
10-28-2006, 11:48 PM
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So how was the airshow at Edwards?
So how was the airshow at Edwards?
Very cool of course. It started with a supersonic pass by an F-16 (but at high altitude, 10,000+ feet)...the sonic boom wasn't that loud at all (it sounded like the crackle you hear after certain commercial fireworks explode). Now let's try it at 200 feet
Then we had the F-22, Mig-17, U-2, B-52, F-18, F-15, F-16, A-10, F-117, C-17 Globemaster all do demo flights (that's what I like about Edwards, the variety of cool jet that perform!!
) The show ended with the Air Force Thunderbirds. The loudest plane was probably the B-1B in full afterburner (very cool!). "Smokeyest" plane went to the B-52 (I've been to a dozen airshows and have never seen the Buff before-- when scheduled, it had always broken down and been pulled from the line-up. But today it was in all its glory). The Predator was scheduled, but didn't make it for some reason.
One complaint that I have had regarding previous Edwards Air Shows was that there was too much of a gap between acts, but they have defintely resolved that....maybe too much, now they have it so tightly scheduled that it was hard to get lunch, go to the restroom, or see the static displays without missing something. While I was touring the 747 that carries the Space Shuttle, I missed a good chunk of the Dutch Air Force's F-16 demo (that sucked as it it looked like that Dutch pilot was pushing the F-16 much harder than American pilots do during air shows!)
Parking was smooth and quick, unlike Miramar, MCAS Yuma, and other airshows where it takes forever in traffic to get into the base.
Same schedule for Sunday if anybody wants to go!
10-29-2006, 08:56 PM
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Yes sir Mr. Vic!
Crazy is as crazy does... Total Star Wars epiphany for me- And my long lost brother of course... Unfortunately for me Vic is smarter, more successful, and more personable as well
Vic - I swear I was gonna get you night flyin' with my bird but I ran out of mufflers...
Cobra- During the Miramar Air Show I was working and went outside for a minute and I saw the Stealth Fighter fly by and a tidbit of the Diamond formation from the B/A
Crazy is as crazy does... Total Star Wars epiphany for me- And my long lost brother of course... Unfortunately for me Vic is smarter, more successful, and more personable as well
Vic - I swear I was gonna get you night flyin' with my bird but I ran out of mufflers...
Cobra- During the Miramar Air Show I was working and went outside for a minute and I saw the Stealth Fighter fly by and a tidbit of the Diamond formation from the B/A
10-29-2006, 09:06 PM
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Looks like a way cool time, I envy all you guys that get to fly together on a regular basis. I just spend most of my time chasing myself around. It would be cool to have other speed freeks to fly with.
10-29-2006, 09:27 PM
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Chuck- First off, congrats on the Wolverines they are awesome this year-
2nd- You are always welcome to come out... Seriously, some day this thing might get big and we can get raffle prizes and a radar gun!
2nd- You are always welcome to come out... Seriously, some day this thing might get big and we can get raffle prizes and a radar gun!