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