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Helicopter is sitting at the Peterborough Regional Health Center, waiting to take a patient 100+ miles to another hospital more suited to their needs.

Chopper (Sikorsky 76-A) is flying for ORNGE - the provincially owned ambulance service.









































Alright... have at 'em and savage away!

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Don't call me crazy. I prefer the term 'mentally hilarious'.
 
I haven't shot helicopters but you guys fluy over my house at least twice a day. COuldn't you fly along the DVP instead?

Well if you are taking photos that close to the air ambulance, you should have lots and lots of opportunity to take more pictures from inside? Why not take pictures of Downtown TO from the inside of that chopper. What a great perpective of the down town core you have? Or, m aybe your not in the chopper just a worker at the base?
 
I like the vibrant colours, good contrasts.

Might be worth slowing down the shooting speed to get a bit of motion in those rotors to give a sense of movement - be interesting to see how that would change the shot of the chopper hovering just above the ground.
 
Just a regular Joe, my friend.

As for your annoyance issue... think about somebody else for a change - these are quite often life and death situations where the patient needs to be somewhere quickly or else they'd be snarled in traffic on the DVP.

Now... back to photographic matters, anybody think I should have used a slower shutter speed to more rotor effect? Sun was kind of bright, so kept it higher.

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Don't call me crazy. I prefer the term 'mentally hilarious'.
 
YOu know the fire department goes to quote 'life and death situations' but they turn their sirens off when going through residential neighbourhoods. The air ambulance could flly over the DVP to get to Sunnybrook instead of flying over the entire city and waking everybody up. What a nuisance. And it wouldn't cost them any time neither.
 
Swapping NIMBY for NOMBY, LOL.

My apartment building is a block from the hospital and they fly over it both on the way in and the way out and it doesn't bother me that much - 15 seconds of noise isn't enough to get my panties in a bunch over.

Hell, Harley Davidson bikes make more noise - and for zero purpose whatsoever.

I posted a video a while back - the day I got the D5000 - of an ORNGE chopper departing which shows the pad setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJuLe7zJQM

Trying to find that perfect light condition for shooting a heli - anybody have suggestions.

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Don't call me crazy. I prefer the term 'mentally hilarious'.
 
Its got nothing to do with that. They can fly over the DVP if they wanted to. You don't see highwasy traffic driving through residential streets do you ? You don't see major air lines flying over the city do you ? They have discreet flight paths and times.
 
Aside from some recovery, exposure compensation, and slight WB modification, colours are as shot.

The blue and orange are very vibrant on the actual helicopter - and the clouds were rain clouds that kept circling the city all day.

When you alter the gamma levels in a photo, rain clouds always shift more to the blue end of things.

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Don't call me crazy. I prefer the term 'mentally hilarious'.
 
Neat shots, I saw one of those exact helicopters land on a highway once, they are pretty loud and impressive in person.
 
OH dear ..isn't that sad. Well, it's loud from more than 15 feet away too!.. Good luck on future flights in that old Sikorsky. I think a new landing pad would be great right in Caledon. They need one there for all the drunk drivers.
 
15 seconds of noise, you self-righteous ass.

How hard is it for you to put other above yourself? I get the feeling that if your ship was sinking, you'd lock women and children in their rooms just so you could get a good seat on a life raft.

Have consideration for others who may be sick or dying - and for the lot of us here who may want to actually discuss photographic technique.

BTW... wishing the OP had died taking these photos makes you fairly worthless.

And that's all I'm going to say.

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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway :)
 
Well the Orangeville hospital does have a landing pad there, i've seen it landed there before.

Sadly I can't disagree with you on the drunk driving, there is tons of it that goes on and most are rarely caught.
 
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