Central Park: the green heart of Manhattan island. Everybody knows it, every movie, TV show or music video shot in New York, somehow, refer to it. But have you ever seen it plainly and fully admired it as it is? Probably not yet, but take a look at today’s”interesting photo of the day”, as it depicts […]
Not very many people are granted the access to suit up and take a spin in a F16 fighter jet, but when Tyler Stableford was asked to do a photoshoot with at the Buckley Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado it was all part of the job. Flying at altitudes of 14,000 feet the lucky […]
Even the most mundane job can produce something beautiful. Amateur photographer Wei Gensheng takes advantage of his job as a crane operator for Shanghai Tower, which will be the second tallest building in the world once completed. As he works, he takes the opportunity to take breathtaking photos of the sprawling cityscapes below him: Gensheng […]
Combining passions can be a good way to renew interest and ward off moments of staleness. Just ask Juan Mayer, who–after years of photography–developed a love of skydiving. Rather than split his time between his interests, he decided to combine the two, resulting in some incredible skydiving photography: Now a professional skydiving photographer, Mayer takes […]
30,000 wooden stakes, 2,000 tonnes of soil, and 2,000 tonnes of sand. That’s what it took for Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada and his team of local Belfastian volunteers, businesses, and contractors to create WISH, an aerial portrait of an anonymous girl depicted in a photograph taken by Rodríguez-Gerada. Created for the 2013 Ulster Bank Belfast […]
Aerial photographs offer a rogue view of the world that we don’t often see. You could get fine aerial shots by using a ladder, bedroom window, or riding in a hot air-balloon. But for Jason Hawkes, a noted aerial photographer, the only way to go is in a helicopter: Landmarks that are rather mundane from […]
After seeing such spectacular and unusual photography coming out of Dubai, I set it as a high priority of places I wanted to visit someday. I wasn’t sure if I would ever get to go there, but eventually I saved enough for a plane ticket and the rest of the plan started falling together. I […]
Photography has a way of helping people in all sorts of ways. For example, aerial photography comes to the rescue of those who find the idea of flying through the sky, thousands of feet above ground to be a rather terrifying idea. It gives grounded folks a different perspective of things, plus it looks really […]
Kai is up to his antics again, this time pitting himself and a Porsche 964 Speedster against aerial photogrpahy master, Graham Uden and a helicopter. The challenge requires Uden to hunt down Kai from a helicopter and take 10 photographs of him speeding around the island. That might not sound too difficult, but as you’ll see in the video below, it turns into quite the wild goose chase. The two were pretty evenly paired, but ultimately, the time saving techniques decided the win.
As smartphone cameras improve, manufacturers are going to great length to prove how effective these little devices are at capturing and uploading images quickly. Far from being a gimmick, the image quality from these smartphones has become good enough to produce professional looking photos and video for next to nothing. This advertising production is a classic example of what can be achieved with a smartphone, a lot of skydiving talent, a big budget, and a little creativity.
