@jtimsuggs There are parts of Stars Wars that have wonderfully intricate lore & logic and other parts that are just utterly unimportant & unintentional. This is the latter.
@RichMiiii@isaiahrmartin Florida was supposed to draw impartial maps, yet DeSantis went exclusively to Fox to show off his new RED vs blue map. No finger on the scale there lolz
@s_carchidi@Variety Are you binging it? I haven’t felt that way when watching week to week. Taking place completely in the hospital is a good part of its schtick
This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
hey so what is it called when you basically only have two modes of operating one where you procrastinate and put things off constantly and the other when you lock in so hard that you literally don't move til you're finished with said task like why do i not have an in between mode