by Geoff 26 Apr
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Dinosaur Valley, Kakadu National Park
Helicopters are great as a photography platform, it is possible to get an exceptional view.
Try to get the pilot to fly with the doors off, as it will allow you to photography without looking through windows and gives a far better view. Photograping through the windows will give great loss of contrast in the images.
Lenses between 20mm and 100mm will prove to be the best focal length range, use as fast a shutter speed as you can, to avoid any camera shake or vibration from the helicopter. Lenses with built in vibration reduction or image stabilization will be a great advantage.
Magella Wetlands, Kakadu National Park
by Geoff 20 Apr
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- Kakadu National Park
The imageabove, is a view at Kakadu National Park, from a helicopter.
In general for aerial images, there are several main factors to be aware of. When taking images through the windows of aircraft the window material appears to be very dense and of poor optical quality, the images will loose quite a lot of contrast, however this can be overcome with digital images to some extent by post processing in Photoshop and giving the contrast a boost.
Our preference is to shoot where it can be arranged from a helicopter and in many cases you can arrange for the doors to be removed. Although this may not be the solution for everyone. The latest vibration reduction lenses or image stabilised lenses may be an advantage to reduce any vibriation or movement which coould potentially cause blurring of the image. A zoom lens can be very usefull in the range 20-100mm for photography from aircraft.
Kakadu National Park
The image above is of Kakadu from a helicopter with the doors removed to improve the view.
The above image is from the window of a plane travelling from Victoria to Tasmania, contrast has been boosted in Photoshop to give a more pleasing look to the image.
