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

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

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

Great Pics Smithy Job well done

those rubber blades are a spin out hahahah

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.

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

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


The last part of the drop

good pics champ

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

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??

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.

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

speaking of Camera tricks:

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