Arial Photos

[Deleted member 12930]

Hello!

My father today got to take a ride in a helicopter to take photos of our house. We've all been really excited around here, and I've been wanting to show people the pictures.

I wish i could have taken the flight, or given my dad a better digi-cam to take pictures with. We only have a run of the mill "point and shoot" sony cam. Not great.

But here are the pics, resized for the web. There are some more, and of course at higher res. But i didn't think that was necessary

So have any of you [H] photographers had experience with arial photography?

 

[HorsePunchKid]

Pretty nice! Yet more evidence that P&S cameras are very much capable of producing good photos. I had two opportunities to go up in a small plane here at UIUC, primarily to photograph the new farm being constructred. It was also a good opportunity to get some shots of the town. I wish we had some nice, rolling hills like that around here...

A couple from the first trip; here's the plane:

A different kind of "plane":

The primary objective:

Coming in for a landing:

And from the second trip, the pilot:

Primary objective, now completed:

The farm that is getting replaced by the new one:

The best shot I took, home of the Fighting Illini...

The second set of photos are better, I think. Most of them were taken with the 50mm prime instead of the frustratingly soft zoom we have here.

By the way, "Arial" is the font, "Ariel" is the mermaid, and "Aerial" is the one that applies to flying. Gotta love English...

 

[Deleted member 12930]

Thanks. i wish i could have taken the pictures myself.

I'm probably going to do some photoshop work on one of the images I linked as well, to get rid of whatever it is that's in the right of the pic.

Also, that is the BIGGEST farm i've ever seen! puts my family's cattle ranch (what the pics show, but only a little under a quarter of it) to shame.

very nice pics. they look great!

 

[Tim_axe]

I haven't had a chance to go into the air yet, but at some point in time I may be able to rent a plane for $70/hr or so to do a bit of aerial photography. Not sure what I'd get pictures of yet, but if/when I do decide to get into the air (and above that 5ft or so barrier that I've been complaining about -- basically there is nothing here to climb up and take photos of to get above anything remotely interesting; too many trees, or similarly heighted buildings) I'll definately figure out what I want to cover.

Nice pictures. I may need to pick up a thrifty-fifty mm lens before I go into the air. From what I've seen here 85mm * 1.6 crop may be a little bit too long, and at other times perhaps not long enough. Not to mention needing to get 1/1000 - 1/4000 or so to prevent blur from plane vibrations...

 

[streetkid]

beautiful house

 

[Deleted member 12930]

beautiful house

thank you custom designed and built too. one of the benefits of coming from a "rancher" family. DIYers at heart

 

[mwarps]

HPK,

I've been to some of those places. Went out to UIUC this past summer to help a friend move back home. I've been in one of the houses in the "sprawling suburbian houses" shot, I think. Right by campus, yes?

 

[HorsePunchKid]

Right by campus, yes?

Yup. Pretty much all of these photos were taken within about a mile of campus, except the ones at the airport (CMI, which is about three miles or so away). Even the photos that appear to be out in the middle of nowhere in a cornfield aren't too far away.

This photo will give you an impression of how abrupt the transition from huge fields to campustown is. That shows pretty much all of campus (including the building I'm posting this from; at full res, I can even see the window I'm sitting next to ).

 

[lorcani]

This photo will give you an impression of how abrupt the transition from huge fields to campustown is. That shows pretty much all of campus (including the building I'm posting this from; at full res, I can even see the window I'm sitting next to ).

Holy hell. That goes straight from farm lands to a city. Maybe I've been living in a rural area too much, but that's a really odd picture.

 

[killernoodle]

My dad is the owner of CharlotteHelicopters, he takes up a lot of aerial photographers, a couple skydivers, some joyriders, pilots-in-training ect. I dont think we have any pics of my house or anything... But here is a picture of a house in NC in the middle of freaking nowhere!

Here is a pic of the sounds in NC outside the window.

Dad on left, student on right, me in back

Thats enough for now. That was a fun trip, went to the coast of NC, then down to daytona florida from there. Saw a nuclear sub going out to sea from the air, a coast guard helicopter rescue from the air, flew a few feet above the ocean and beach for a little while at about 140mph, ect. You miss a lot of cool stuff being on the ground

Oh yeah, and to make the trip even cooler: when we went down to daytona we were surprised to find out it was bike week Pretty fun stuff, bikes everywhere!!! At the airport they had Harley-Davidson's Lear Jet with a huge silver and black eagle painted on the side with flames and stuff, it was cool as hell.