"Earth from Above" exibition in Mumbai

The famous aerial photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand was in Mumbai.

Read the story here:

http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_aerial-photography-exibition-on-at-the-marine-drive-in-mumbai_1323701

Aerial photography in Northwest Florida

Amy is a former schoolteacher who has taken a life-long love of photography and turned it into an exciting aerial photography business.

Read her story at the Pensacola News Journal.


View her site at www.aerialphotosbyamy.com

Aerial photography in Michigan

Image Michigan is a family owned business based in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Kevin Coles, a cartographer, uses a 45 feet mast and when needed climbs into an Cessna to perform aerial photography.

Read Kevin's story at mlive.com

Kevin's site is www.imagemichigan.net

Aerial photography and Typography

The first alphabet of Google Earth satellite images of natural features and buildings, featuring all 26 letters, has been created by Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer from Australia.

http://rhettdashwood.com.au/16575

92 and 196 megapixels aerial photography cameras?

That's right!


Read the stories:


http://on10.net/blogs/larry/Microsofts-92-Megapixel-Camera/


http://www.microsoft.com/ultracam/default.mspx


http://www.microsoft.com/ultracam/ultracam/default.mspx

How to make your own website using xara web designer

Well... no aerial photography involved but a few weeks ago something changed on how we create a great looking website in minutes, with no HTML skills and I AM TOTALLY IMPRESSED!


Traditional web authoring tools are just HTML editors, designed to create text layout, providing few graphical capabilities.

And yet the vast majority of modern websites are of a graphical nature, just till now there was no easy way to have complete freedom to include text, graphics, photos anywhere on the page, using just one tool.

The Xara Web Designer approach is simple: Pick the design from templates; customize it with complete freedom; publish with absolutely no HTML or Javascript skills!

Using drag & drop you can literally place anything, anywhere on the page.
Things which are normally difficult to achieve in HTML are a snap in Xara Web Designer, for example text with curved edges, text or graphics at an angle, text flowing around objects.

Whether you customize one of the bundled templates or create your own graphics or animations, the software is genuinely What You See Is What You Get.

Web Designer's templates were created by top professional designers. You can customize the color, text, images, size etc to create your own personal look with full quality.

The software also includes some clever tricks:

Liquid text flow around objects;
mouseover, thumbnail and pop-up creation;
automatic adjustment of photos to the correct resolution;
oneclick change of site theme colors & shades;
automatic color matching of imported objects;
buttons and text panels that automatically stretch as you change the text.

Working with industry standards:
Web Designer sites are W3C compliant and cross browser compatible (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) as they are XHTML and CSS standards based.

Just check it! You can download a 30 day trial.

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DIY pole photography (pan & tilt)

Here's an experienced Aussie, with technical background, making a pan & tilt system for his pole aerial photography business.

A very interesting story at:

http://vincedestefano.com/blog/?p=39

A valuable blog post for aerial photography newbies.

Maria Langer is a freelance writer and commercial helicopter pilot.

She's the author of 70+ books and hundreds of articles about using computers. (You can learn about her books and read articles on Maria's Guides).

She's also a commercial helicopter pilot and the owner and chief pilot of Flying M Air, LLC, an Arizona-based helicopter tour and charter company.

She wrote an interesting blog post and I suggest you read it http://www.marialanger.com/2009/03/08/on-aerial-photography/

It has lots of useful info, especially for newbies...

Hitchhiker's guide to aerial photography!

...When you're starting out, building a portfolio from the air is inherently problematic.
You can't get jobs without an aerial portfolio, and you can't get a portfolio without getting up in a helicopter or airplane...


Read the rest of the story by Greg Hren:

http://greghren.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/weekend-tip-for-location-photography-2-hitch-hiking-is-ok/


You should also read all the "aerial photography" posts in his blog: http://greghren.wordpress.com/category/aerial-photography/

Aviation photographer crashes

A Remos light sport aviation aircraft crashed last week at the Sebring Regional Airport, killing an aviation photographer from Peterborough, UK and injuring the pilot.

The plane went down shortly after takeoff.

The photographer Steven Fletcher, a very popular aviation photographer, maintained the Web site www.av8images.com


Read the story here: part 1, part 2

Budget Aerial Shots

...at least for those of you living in California.

Here's the story (6' video)

www.budgetlifer.com/2009/01/19/budget-aerial-shots/

along with a link to the company's website

www.corporatehelicopters.com

Creating white backgrounds

A few methods for isolating objects on white backgrounds, in case your post processing needs it.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/abt54133.html

Oldest Surviving Aerial Photo

We've covered the World's first aerial photos in this post (History of aerial photography).

Unfortunately these photos were lost.

So the earliest surviving aerial photo, shown here, is that of Boston in 1860, taken by James Wallace Black, using a balloon.

Aerial photo of a B-2

No preview here for this amazing photo, you've got to see it to believe it!
Well done Mark!

Read the article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/allthingstrojan/2009/01/the-rose-bowl-f.html

Visit the page at pilot's site: http://www.photopilot.com/clients/bowlgame/

WW2 aerial photos

For you guys searching for Second World War ( WWII ) aerial pictures, here's an interesting link in a related forum.

Enjoy!


http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/nw-europe/17002-aerial-photo-pegasus-bridge.html