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That came out great! Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Glidersports Skydiving in Clinton, MO flew over to the Fulton, MO airport which was on the centerline for totality. It was a great time. Josh Thomsen took this shot of an 8-way exiting. He ended up getting a couple of great shots. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Glidersports Skydiving (Glidersports.com) is in Clinton, MO. A lot of the Festus crowd have migrated over there. Glidersports runs a Supervan 900 and routinely averages 15K or more on altitude and all that in less than 15 minutes. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

I shot this one handheld during totality with my 100-400. Nothing special. We were jumping during the eclipse and I was on the ground filming landings. My ISO was up to like 6400. I wish I would have had it on 800 but I didn't know what to expect and I was trying to get landing shots in the dark without a flash all at the same time.... :/ Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Glidersports Memorial Cluster F#@k 900 Boogie. Experenced jumpers!!!!!!!!! Have you ever thought you could jump for $3.60 per load from 14K or above?????? Well, here we are again, giving you the chance to be the LOAD HOG of the year! Get your jump ticket as low as you can by taking advantage of the one fee for as many jumps as you can make in 3 days of crazy jumping. Oxygen loads will be happening throughout the weekend for an additonal charge. If weather grounds us, there is a make up date set over Father's Day weekend. Now that you have all the details.......GET OUT HERE AND PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Exclusive paid packers available starting at $150/day and up. Packers available per pack job as well. Inquire on site and we'll hook you up as best we can. These are going FAST! Wes McCauley will be Load Organizing Relative Work Skydives from 4-Way to 15-Way. We will primarily be focusing on smaller ways but if there is enough interest and talent the plane holds 15. Wes has been Load Organizing for over 30 years and cut his teeth at Richmond "The Boogie" with the likes of Scotty Carbone as well as some others. Derren and Brandon from iFly Kansas City will be heading up the freely load organizing. These guys are incredible flyers and tunnel coaches with hours of flying time and are ready to help you achieve your free flying goals. Saturday night BBQ dinner and Beer tickets available for $35 (register jumper, or $50 non-registered jumper). Catering provided by Swine Flu BBQ along with all the fixin’s. Swine Flew BBQ is a Kansas City Favorite and has been running the boogie circuit for years. Check them out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SwineFlewBBQ/ Saturday Night – Four piece LIVE band – Some of the heaviest hitters KC has to offer. (You may have heard them playing at some of the biggest theaters in the area!) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will have at least one onsite food vendor for breakfast and lunch available for purchase insuring you won't even have to leave the drop zone if you don't want to. 50/30/20 Amp camper power available. First come, first serve. Limited slots available. Call with advance notice and we may even be able to install a slot just for you. :D BOOGIE GOODIE BAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😊 From now until opening day, the one time registration fee of $199 is in effect. Think that's too much? Call and whine to us why you feel you deserve to pay less and if you're story is good enough we just might discount it for you. After all it is a Cluster F#@k Boogie! 660-351-2883 ask for Garret and you better have a good story because with Garrett... you're going to need one. ;) Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Give Garrett Reed a call and he can answer all your questions. 660-351-2883 Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

It was a fucking blast... I haven't even left yet... hahahahah Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Glidersports Skydiving is pleased to introduce to you it's Supervan 900 jump ship. As a way of getting our name out there, we here at Glidersports have decided to offer the midwest fun jumpers the opportunity to make as many skydives as you possibly can for the cost of a $99 registration fee. Since this is the first time we will be utilizing this premier jump plane at our facility, YES, we will also be providing the beer. :D You will not want to miss this. Neither will your friends. Tell Everyone you know. The plane will be available for skydiving August 25th thru the 28th guaranteed with a possible start date of the 24th and perhaps adding a few additional days as well. https://www.facebook.com/events/654163848067981/ For more information check out the Facebook Event page. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

I have to ask... In photo 2... Is the plane on fire? Hahahahaha Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Well, there are a few oddball nut jobs out there in the world. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Been using Macs since the very first one. Used a lot of PCs in that time as well... given the choice I choose mac. The best part about a mac these days is that if you absolutely have to have a windows machine, you can install it on a mac too. Best of both worlds. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=finearts&subcat=visualarts&spec=photography Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

I'm really looking forward to seeing it. There's just no telling how long it will take for them to air it down here. :P Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

"Sky Jumpers" is airing only in Canada on the History Channel. It aired last night at 8p eastern and I think it is going to air again at 2p eastern time. Anyway anyone can record it? Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Spot... you're just a man. Don't be too hard on yourself. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

You'd want the ISO as high as you can stand it. On a Rebel I find that to be 800 or less. Old Rebels like the XT don't even do 800 very well. If you use a larger aperture your DOF is going to be VERY shallow and since your auto focus isn't going to work very well you'll want to manually focus for a set distance and a narrower aperture setting will give you more wiggle room in grabbing an acceptable focus. However, a narrower aperture is going to let in less light as well, so you're going to have to find that happy medium. Take lots of night shots on the ground until you find something that seems acceptable and then just go try it in the air. For "night" shots, I wouldn't use auto anything. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

You are going to be hard pressed to pull that off with just a Rebel and built in flash. That onboard flash just doesn't have the oomph or spread. As far as settings go, well I would put the camera in M mode. In a night shot there is going to be no real ambient light. The chems and strobes aren't going to give you any real light to work with (unless you shot at the EXACT moment the strobe was going off). Your shutter speed at this point controls the ambient light. You have to stay within sync speed of the flash for the most part which is typically 1/200 - 1/250. You want to shoot fast enough to take care of any motion blur but stay under those upper limits. Depending on how steady your head is in the sky and your subject you might be able to shoot as low as 1/60 to allow the chems to give off some good light that will show in photos, otherwise I'd stick to 1/125-1/250 to insure better stopping of motion. So then you just want to set your aperture for the appropriate DOF you're looking for. This will also help with the perception of focus. (It won't help with auto focus because you just aren't going to be able to use that at night. Focus will have to be locked in manually and you will just have to stay at that distance.) If you open your lens all the way up with aperture your DOF is going to be a lot more narrower and you're going to have to know your distance to subject VERY well or your photos will all be blurry. If you set the aperture tighter for better DOF at some point it's going to steal perceived power from the strobe. Experiment on the ground in similar conditions. Get an approximation of distance and then play with aperture and shutter speed to see if you get any useable photos. Start out with say f5.6 @1/60 10ft away from subject. See what you get. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Well, the Sony stuff is an option. If you REALLY like Sony then just install bootcamp on it and Windows and use Sony. In a lot of cases, a mac running windows is a better option than most PC Compatible laptops. Otherwise Adobe Premiere is available for the mac. Personally, I use iMovie 9.0.9 for tandem videos (haven't messed with iMovie 10 yet). Final cut is very powerful but it's not really suitable for a quick tandem video workflow, or at least that's been my case. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666555940 This is also a pretty nifty mount option. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Tim Cook thinks I need a square helmet… Do you perhaps no when Apple might be coming out with it's version of the Tonfly? Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Well said. I too own a mac. For this reason… I walk bowlegged as well. Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Your daughter went skydiving... :D Tori Fuller makes her first Skydive Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

Those are expensive too DUH!!! Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer

http://www.red.com/store/cameras RED is an insanely expensive camera. :D Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I Videographer/Photographer