Helitacs in action in hopelands

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:51 pm

Just a few pics of the helitacs from todays fire on river road Hopelands.

donks · Post by **donks** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:56 pm

nice shots! looks as if the blades are made of rubber! haha

Post by **Tyranus** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:40 pm

good shots...funny you mention it donks, I thought pretty much the same thing!

BFB LT1 · Post by **BFB LT1** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:51 pm

Great Pics Smithy Job well done

those rubber blades are a spin out hahahah

dlcat1 · Post by **dlcat1** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:09 pm

What was your camera settings? Would shutter speed/exposure have caused that? I've never seen it before.

Looks like you got really lucky there however it happenned. They are great photos.

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:56 pm

just your standard 2 mega pixel mobile phone camera

they were actually flying a lot lower then that. Just comes out a bit distant thats all

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:02 pm

Two more i forgot to upload
see if you can spot the helitac

The last part of the drop

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:51 am

good pics champ

Helitak_670 · Post by **Helitak_670** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:59 pm

Where are the fire vehicles, looks like the boys wanted some practice to do a mop up.

Post by **Tyranus** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:54 pm

Helitak_670 wrote:Where are the fire vehicles, looks like the boys wanted some practice to do a mop up.

They were all parked off the side taking photo's

haha just jokes mate, good shots there, but yes very good question...where are all the trucks??

kylep · Post by **kylep** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:41 am

The bending of the blades tends to happen on lo-res cameras - phone, old school digicams etc. I'm sure wikipedia or something would have some more detail, but have noticed it in alot of lo-res shots. With a higher res camera you'll either get the blades frozen in the air, or with motion blue, depending on your shutter speed. The trick is to get a bit of blur, so it looks like the chopper is flying, rather than hanging in mid-air.

Thanks for sharing.

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:12 am

Tyranus wrote:
Helitak_670 wrote:Where are the fire vehicles, looks like the boys wanted some practice to do a mop up.
They were all parked off the side taking photo's haha just jokes mate, good shots there, but yes very good question...where are all the trucks??

there werent too many appliances there. only 2nd alarm i think. had 3 or 4 tankers on the road and only about 5 or 6 attacking trucks. few LT and 3.4, 4.4s. the helitacs stuck around a bit to help with mop up hitting the hot spots on the edges of the fire. we had the task of following a loader around. So with just driving around and helitacs flying above we thought why not

Post by **Nafenn** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:32 pm

speaking of Camera tricks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyisg9-Mwjw - thats a great one

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