Aerial Photographer joke

A photographer for a national magazine was assigned to take pictures of a great forest fire.
He was advised that a small plane would be waiting to fly him over the fire.

The photographer arrived at the airstrip, just an hour before sundown.

A small two-seat airplane was waiting.

He jumped in with his equipment and shouted, “Let’s go!”

The tense man sitting in the pilot’s seat swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air, though flying erratically.

“Fly over the north side of the fire,” said the photographer, “and make several low-level passes.”

“Why?” asked the nervous pilot.

“Because I’m going to take pictures!” yelled the photographer.

“I’m a photographer, and photographers take pictures.”

The pilot replied, “You mean you’re not the flight instructor?”

Removing dark spots from the sky or the sea.

One of the techniques you can use is "The History Brush Technique".

The Photoshop History Brush Tool technique allows you to clean up large areas of dirt quickly when the area to be cleaned contains very little detail e.g. the sky or other background area.

Go to Filter / Noise / Dust & Scratches... and choose a radius large enough to remove all the blemishes. The whole image will be blurred, but it's ok.

Select the History Brush and in the History Palette, click on the small square box on the left of the Dust & Scratches history. This sets the origin for the History Brush.

Now click in the previous History state, the larger rectangular box immediately above and to the right. This returns us to the unblurred image.

With the Mode set to "Lighten" paint over the dirt with the History Brush.

All traces of dirt will vanish.

Aerial Photography tips for beginners

Here are the basics of aerial photography.

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Aerial Photography tips

Do it Yourself Remote Shutter.

Here is something that could be useful in Pole Aerial Photography.

How to make a remote shutter release for your canon digital camera using a hands free.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Remote-shutter-trigger-for-Canon-Cameras

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