Aerial Photography

DeanMcM

Anyone in the NY area know of anyone who does aeriel photograpy?

Within the next couple weeks, my place of employment needs photos of our sites from the air. I would love to do it but no plane or helicopter. :dunno

Thanks
Dean

dragon300zx

DeanMcM wrote:

Anyone in the NY area know of anyone who does aeriel photograpy?

Within the next couple weeks, my place of employment needs photos of our sites from the air. I would love to do it but no plane or helicopter.

Thanks
Dean

Check with the local small airports and stuff like that. Should be able to find a pilot to take you up. If they are doing training runs and have to go up anyways you might be able to get a discount.

DeanMcM

dragon300zx wrote:

Check with the local small airports and stuff like that. Should be able to find a pilot to take you up. If they are doing training runs and have to go up anyways you might be able to get a discount.

Would a heliocopter be best?

Thanks!

dragon300zx

DeanMcM wrote:

Would a heliocopter be best?

Thanks!

Never done it but probably. The biggest thing I would think you should keep in mind is shutter speeds. You will prolly need failry fast shutter speeds whatever the aircraft it till be vibrating some plus you are moving and pretty good speed as well.

DeanMcM

dragon300zx wrote:

Never done it but probably. The biggest thing I would think you should keep in mind is shutter speeds. You will prolly need failry fast shutter speeds whatever the aircraft it till be vibrating some plus you are moving and pretty good speed as well.

Thanks!

dragon300zx

DeanMcM wrote:

Thanks!

OK so I just noticed I can't type, or spell worth crap today. I hope you got what I ment by the words that are out of place.

Jnichols

Our corresponding State agency (I work for the Dept of Interior) does aerial photography on a regular basis - they fly in police helicopters. As far as I can tell, the photographs appear very sharp taken from helicopters.

DeanMcM

Jnichols wrote:

Our corresponding State agency (I work for the Dept of Interior) does aerial photography on a regular basis - they fly in police helicopters. As far as I can tell, the photographs appear very sharp taken from helicopters.

Thanks Jen, I am searching for heliocopter services locally.

If no luck I will try planes.

Dean

DavidTO

One thing that's always fascinated me is Kite Aerial Photography. Anyone doing any of that?

(I suppose not, otherwise we would have seen some, right?)

DeanMcM

DavidTO wrote:

One thing that's always fascinated me is Kite Aerial Photography. Anyone doing any of that?

(I suppose not, otherwise we would have seen some, right?)

I looked into this a long time ago, looks pretty cool.

PossumCorner

Hot Air Balloon
Not being silly, balloons are lovely to shoot from because you can walk around in the basket to get angles - of course the travel direction is with the wind. Although I guess your "sites" are city not up-state so you cannot fly over in balloon. Helicopter is next best and yes there is a lot of vibration/need high shutter speed also high dof need. Sky Acres airport used to do a lot of low work for photographers (in New Jersey I think, maybe further - near Van Sant).

It was all fairly inexpensive when I was there in 1980 but wide variations so probably still best to do some cost comparisons before taking the first quote.

Wish it was me: can't afford to fly at all now. Anyone been to Oshkosh??

Chase

PossumCorner wrote:

Not being silly, balloons are lovely to shoot from because you can walk around in the basket to get angles - of course the travel direction is with the wind. Although I guess your "sites" are city not up-state so you cannot fly over in balloon. Helicopter is next best and yes there is a lot of vibration/need high shutter speed also high dof need. Sky Acres airport used to do a lot of low work for photographers (in New Jersey I think, maybe further - near Van Sant).

It was all fairly inexpensive when I was there in 1980 but wide variations so probably still best to do some cost comparisons before taking the first quote.

Wish it was me: can't afford to fly at all now. Anyone been to Oshkosh??

Ive been to osh kosh, but only saw about 10 helicopters there......square miles and miles of boring old palnes though (anythign that isnt ready to crash at any second is boring )

gus

Maybe you have one of these fella's in your area. This bloke is always at work...you can see the balloon for miles.

Its just a ballon on a rope with a camera on it.

DeanMcM

Hey guys, yeah the balloons would'nt work to well. We have over 800 acres in three locations. So a plane or helocopter would be best, to move around better.

The small baloon thing is cool, I also found some 50 ft tri-pods. Nice for taking photos of building.

Thanks
Dean

PossumCorner

Boring old Planes!!

Chase wrote:

Ive been to osh kosh, but only saw about 10 helicopters there......square miles and miles of boring old palnes though (anythign that isnt ready to crash at any second is boring )

Boring old Planes?? I'm sure that was just a slip and you meant to say "exciting, innovational aircraft". No? Oh, well.

Chase

PossumCorner wrote:

Boring old Planes?? I'm sure that was just a slip and you meant to say "exciting, innovational aircraft". No? Oh, well.

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Student Helicopter pilot. My dad flies a Bell Long Ranger. 'nuff said, .

jrykowski

DeanMcM wrote:

Anyone in the NY area know of anyone who does aeriel photograpy?

Don't forget to look for alternatives... There are services which use remote controlled helicopters to do aerial photos (and video)...

Example (just after a quick Google search)...

http://www.phuketdir.com/helicam/

May be less costly than hiring a "real" aeriel photo service.

Just my two cents.

troglodite

I realise that this is a bit late for this job but I do perform Aerial Photography services in the CT/Upstate NY area.

examples here: http://www.mtharris.com/aerial-photography.php

thx!