Club Night - 1st August

Looks like it is going to be a scorcher of an evening tomorrow night, perhaps a world first for a RDMFC club night?

Andy

BBQ tonight

Awesome. I'll get my paypal account funded with some beefburger money!

Wicked!!

M

Great night tonight, big thanks to Rich for the BBQ and here's a couple of photos of Mel's Super Cub that finally got it's maiden tonight, looked great in the setting sun

Nice shots of Mel's Cub Brian, nice BBQ, Roy does a mean onion.

A reasonable turn out.

The cub looked really nice in the air.  I didn't manage to get any decent shots of it from the quad though.  I think I need some more practice chasing models!

I did get some nice snaps though, here:





And then there was some hanging around until it was dark enough for this:



And this:


and this:


Thanks go to the evenings audience and generous hosts:


Andy

Yes I was pleased to finally get the Cub into the air after all the engine problems that dogged it, just a few tweaks needed now. Many thanks to Richie for doing the test flight and to Brian for capturing it on camera, looks as pretty as a picture in the air.

Andy I've run one of your shots through Lightroom and Photoshop to see how much lens correction I could give it. Even on the max setting in LR there's still a very exaggerated earth curvature :-(

I've now gone further with this on a trial dowload of a program called PT lens, I say trial as the full version is $25 and I don't particularly want it as LR usually suits my needs if using a wide angle lens

Removing the lens distortion seems to be a bit tricky with images from a GoPro. I actually don't mind the distortion for a lot of the images, I think it makes them look a bit funky and different.

That said, it would be nice to be able to remove it for certain applications. The PT lens software has added a bit more distortion in around the centre of the edges of image, the bullocks look a bit squished. I wonder if cropping the worst of the distortion out would be a better approach?

Andy

Nothing like having your bullocks squished!!! 

My edits were just a quick play Andy just to prove there were possibilities out there

Its another thing added to the to do list! I suspect a new camera and bigger airframe will sort most of the issues though :-)

I downloaded a trial of Adobe Lightroom 5 last night Brian, apparently it has built in support for images taken on a GoPro, complete with a lens profile for removing distortion. I've not tried it out yet, but will do soon hopefully!

Andy

I've got LR4 Andy and have trialled LR5 but for my present needs I don't feel the upgrade worth the price at this moment in time