Yesterday I managed to get a few shots that I like, chasing a herd of cows around the field. The rest of the day was just kiting on the ground and chatting with Julian, a retired photographer and videographer who frequently shoots for National Geographic and Discovery Channel. His latest work was the paramotor documentary that was recently aired on Astro’s Bio Channel.
We talked about his plan to fly around Africa, a plan that’s bit way too expensive for me to afford but his next trip is something that I think as well within the budget range – flying from Perth to Darwin via Ayers Rock. I don’t mind being the ground support crew if he needs one, it’d be cool to ride the GS bike in the Australian outback.
Today Julian wasn’t around but I had the chance to meet Shafri, another pilot but he flew Cessna instead of Paramotor. He just enrolled into the training session with James and we were talking about organizing flying event in Langkawi, at the resort which he owns.
The air today was a bit bumpy and I didn’t bring my camera flying today. I tried new altitude today, about 1500ft high but only flew for about 35 minutes after my fingers were getting numb from the engine vibration. The new propeller wasn’t so good, not properly balanced and during low RPM it vibrates the whole harness. Anyway, it was a good and enjoyable flight nonetheless.
Today there were film production crews setting up props and shooting commercial for Panasonic and after my flight I went to check out what they were up to. Had a chat with the cameraman and comparing my camera setup to his. See the difference on lens? That’s the kind of lens professional videographer uses for television commercial shots.
My Canon 7D’s 17-40mm lens looks tiny compared to his 290mm lens. But that lens can be attached to an ordinary DSLR, they actually uses DSLR in some of the shots. Cool stuffs.