Aerial Photography

Acknowledgements

Vineet Gupta for making this trip happen at the last minute.

“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”

- Eames in Inception
“Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or triggered automatically. Platforms for aerial photography include fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, balloons, blimps and dirigibles, rockets, kites, poles and parachutes.”¹

What I did

For this adventure, I decided to snap some shots from the window of an A380. Some grabs include a cumulonimbus falling apart, Chicago from 35,000 feet, a fire in San Diego county and some luscious southern California beaches. All shots were taken with a Canon Mark II and a 24-105mm lens, all shots were taken at f/4 3200 ISO.