Ron Shoots

I’m in Chicago for a 2 days. A helicopter pilot/friend on the East Coast was in the area filming a sporting event so the helicopter was already here. We shot last night and then again this morning to capture both sunset and sunrise. (By the way, the sun comes up early in Chicago in the summer- like 5:24am today!) We met at the airfield in the dark and were in the air headed towards the city at 140 mph by 5am. We lucked into just enough cloud cover for a nice sunrise and a narrow band of blue sky before the clouds overtook the entire horizon. Weather is just one of those factors where you never know! A few clouds always helps make a better sunrise or sunset.

The sunset shot above was taken with the Hasselblad H3D-39 and 35mm lens. Shutter speed was only about a 30th of a second, however with the gyro-stabilizer (KS-6 from Kenyon Labs), the camera can be hand-held at much lower shutter speeds.