I was kind of disappointed myself- I was expecting him to use a 41mp Cell phone instead of the big bulky dSLR 

1/800s

Yes, you can light a flying plane with 30kWs of flashes, but I don't find the results that interesting.

(Is this really a new video? I have a feeling I have read about this shoot for months or years ago...)

Quote from: Perry on November 14, 2013, 14:03

Yes, you can light a flying plane with 30kWs of flashes, but I don't find the results that interesting.

(Is this really a new video? I have a feeling I have read about this shoot for months or years ago...)

yep, there was a photographer who did something similar a couple years ago

It's a strange project. I suppose the air force wanted the shots and arranged it all, since the expense certainly doesn't seem justified for stock purposes.  You could tell he works mostly in a studio from the time it took him to hit on panning as the solution, which I'm pretty sure a motor-sports shooter would have done automatically.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on November 14, 2013, 14:14

It's a strange project. I suppose the air force wanted the shots and arranged it all, since the expense certainly doesn't seem justified for stock purposes.  You could tell he works mostly in a studio from the time it took him to hit on panning as the solution, which I'm pretty sure a motor-sports shooter would have done automatically.

If it was a commission from the Danish air force then why was it done at a commercial airport? Why would they commission Yuri anyway as he is hardly an expert in aviation photography (obvious from the video) and surely the Danish armed forces would have their own specialist photographers anyway? The pilot looked way too old to be operational too.

I get the impression that it was just another vanity shoot for yet more self-promotion showing us how much gear he's got and how exciting his life is. Note the vital close-up of his personalised registration plate on his car.

It's a strange project. I suppose the air force wanted the shots and arranged it all, since the expense certainly doesn't seem justified for stock purposes.  You could tell he works mostly in a studio from the time it took him to hit on panning as the solution, which I'm pretty sure a motor-sports shooter would have done automatically.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on November 14, 2013, 14:14

It's a strange project. I suppose the air force wanted the shots and arranged it all, since the expense certainly doesn't seem justified for stock purposes.  You could tell he works mostly in a studio from the time it took him to hit on panning as the solution, which I'm pretty sure a motor-sports shooter would have done automatically.

I couldn't agree more�I thought it was a little embarrassing the amount of time he wasted trying to get the shot. Obviously you have to pan with the plane as it passes by to get a shot like that�pretty ordinary result in the end as well.

Quote from: gostwyck on November 14, 2013, 15:24

I get the impression that it was just another vanity shoot for yet more self-promotion showing us how much gear he's got and how exciting his life is. Note the vital close-up of his personalised registration plate on his car.

And to think he could be shooting tomatoes on a white background, he took a wrong turn somewhere.

Quote from: jjneff on November 14, 2013, 18:25

ahh 1/800 is perfect for that thanks for educating me :-)

The 1/800 is because a Hasselblad has a leaf shutter in the lens, which opens and shuts more rapidly than a focal-plane shutter, where the two "curtains" move across the film gate together with a narrow gap between them.  But 1/800 isn't really necessary for this shot. If the plane is moving at 300kph then it will move only 0.1m in 1/800 or 0.4m in 1/200.  The plane is at least 100m away, so the motion blur is going to be insignificant, especially as it is further reduced by panning. By comparison, a tennis ball served by a top pro will travel at half that speed but photographed from the side of the net, 10m from the player, will travel through an angle 5x greater than the plane viewed from 100m. If 1/1000 will freeze the tennis ball, which it will, then 1/200 would freeze the plane.

The larger image size of the Hasselblad offsets some of the advantage of the faster shutter speed, too, as you will use a longer focal length on the 'blad, so the only advantage you are left with is that you have a bigger image if you want to plaster the side of a building with it (or you can use a wider lens and crop if you want to).

I'm sure Gostwyck is right to dismiss my idea of the air force sponsoring it - maybe Hasselblad did, or maybe it was just a very expensive "boys with toys" event. in any case, I reckon a top-end DSLR would have been more suitable for the job.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on November 14, 2013, 14:14

It's a strange project. I suppose the air force wanted the shots and arranged it all, since the expense certainly doesn't seem justified for stock purposes.  You could tell he works mostly in a studio from the time it took him to hit on panning as the solution, which I'm pretty sure a motor-sports shooter would have done automatically.

I couldn't agree more�I thought it was a little embarrassing the amount of time he wasted trying to get the shot. Obviously you have to pan with the plane as it passes by to get a shot like that�pretty ordinary result in the end as well.

It saddens me to see all these artists rip into another artist for completely the wrong reasons. I dont care what he did with SS or IS to still be able to enjoy that video, thats a cool video and a cool shot. I am sure if you make millions of dollars with your photos you know what you are doing. Maybe he was just showing off toys, who cares, we all love to do that.

The value of that photo increased because its the real deal, it has a story, its not a photoshopped image, which has no story.

Is ripping into him going to make you feel better or sell more photos?

Petty.

I see a photographer and pilot taking unnecessary risks for a shot that could have been better and more easily taken with the plane grounded and then composited later. I could understand if they needed to light the plane for video, but for still photography?

PetaPixel just posted about this, Yuri Yuri Yuri, the guy that gets what he wants, a true professional

Remember he's sponsored by Profoto and Hasselblad and sells his monopod.  Those companies want to get something in return for their investment.  It's just part of his job.  I wouldn't mind setting up a few shots like this if someone is going to give me tens of thousands of dollars in equipment.

Quote from: tickstock on November 15, 2013, 11:50

Remember he's sponsored by Profoto and Hasselblad and sells his monopod.  Those companies want to get something in return for their investment.  It's just part of his job.  I wouldn't mind setting up a few shots like this if someone is going to give me tens of thousands of dollars in equipment.

But it's a rainy, semi-boring video at best. Look at the kinda stuff gopro or redbull have on youtube, thats what you need to compete with for people's short attention span... next to that this is about as exciting as watching granma' mow the lawn.

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Quote from: topol on November 15, 2013, 12:52

Quote from: tickstock on November 15, 2013, 11:50

Remember he's sponsored by Profoto and Hasselblad and sells his monopod.  Those companies want to get something in return for their investment.  It's just part of his job.  I wouldn't mind setting up a few shots like this if someone is going to give me tens of thousands of dollars in equipment.

But it's a rainy, semi-boring video at best. Look at the kinda stuff gopro or redbull have on youtube, thats what you need to compete with for people's short attention span... next to that this is about as exciting as watching granma' mow the lawn.

Gopro's videos cost a lot more to make than Yuri's and they are different things.  Yuri is promoting himself, profoto, hasselblad, and his monopod in the video.  If you look at profoto's last youtube video it's only had 6,000 views in 6 months compared to Yuri's which had 10,000 in a day.  Seems fairly successful to me.

If you account for athe cost of the strobes, etc, I don't think most of the videos cost more at all. Most of profoto's videos are startightforward ads, Yuri only has some logo peek-a-boo.

we saw that before man, are you getting paid as well?