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Aerial Cinematography - Things To Learn Aerial photography is done professionally in field studies such as cartography, archeology, landing use plans, military economical espionage, advertising and cinematography. It's also an interesting hobby practiced by many today. Practiced first in 1858 by Nadar, a french balloonist who made pictures over Paris and was also predominantly used during the first world war by the army. It has remained a good and efficient art of taking photographs.It involves taking pictures on ground with cameras mounted on air crafts, balloons, helicopters just to mention a few. Nevertheless, for an amateur who cannot afford paying for a plane, he or she can buy an astro-cam or some oracle rocket and continue enjoying aerial photography as a hobby. Companies have not been left out in this and they have small radio controlled air crafts used for this purpose since flight over residential places is restricted at certain heights.In evaluation of buildings or large properties, aerial photography plays an important role and this is best achieved when the photos are taken from a helicopter. The reason behind this is quite straight forward i.e. a helicopter can stay still and therefore create a better environment for taking pictures compared to an ordinary plane.

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Aerial Cinematography - Things To LearnAerial photography is done professionally in field studies such as cartography, archeology, landing use plans, military economical espionage, advertising and cinematography. It's also an interesting hobby practiced by many today. Practiced first in 1858 by Nadar, a french balloonist who made pictures over Paris and was also predominantly used during the first world war by the army. It has remained a good and efficient art of taking photographs.It involves taking pictures on ground with cameras mounted on air crafts, balloons, helicopters just to mention a few. Nevertheless, for an amateur who cannot afford paying for a plane, he or she can buy an astro-cam or some oracle rocket and continue enjoying aerial photography as a hobby. Companies have not been left out in this and they have small radio controlled air crafts used for this purpose since flight over residential places is restricted at certain heights.In evaluation of buildings or large properties, aerial photography plays an important role and this is best achieved when the photos are taken from a helicopter. The reason behind this is quite straight forward i.e. a helicopter can stay still and therefore create a better environment for taking pictures compared to an ordinary plane.

One of its problems though, is the perspective correction and thus some pictures made in certain angles may result in incorrect perspective. For example, near objects may tend to look too large compared to far placed objects. Remember, the good things about it are endless and in fact if you want to sell a large estate use an airplane for faster and great evaluation results. The art of photography has grown greatly. From those old pictures that were black and white and some images were even blurred to what the modern society has, which is defined through clarity and detail, the art of photography has certainly suffered great changes. Actually, so grand have the modifications been that today, people have something called aerial photography to refer to.Although the entire technique seems to be specific for the modern society, it is worth knowing that this people made use of aerial photography in 1858. The first person to have taken photos from impressive heights was balloonist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. If you want to get an idea of how aerial photos looked like back in the 1850s, then you could look at one of

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the vintage postcards, because this is how this technique functioned.Of course today, things have changed greatly and photos taken in this manner, as well videos performed through aerial cinematography.

Much has been invested in the development of the right technology and for good reason. It is truly surprising to see all the ways one can make use of aerial filming, as well cinematography. Here are a few examples of domains, which have a constant need for these techniques that will surely convince you of the fact that investing money in this direction is a very profitable plan. Aerial photos are relevant in the making of topographic maps, archeology, movies and commercial, even in the promotion of certain location for touristic purposes. Looking at the environmental concerns, which are increasing in number, it is relevant to mention that indeed aerial filming can be used in different related analysis. So far, anyone can tell that such photographing techniques are needed, making possible for several tasks to be handled appropriately. However, what might seem as a mystery to most is the actual manner in which these photos are taken. In some cases, this is performed by means of a highly equipped, professional camera, handled by an expert, situated in a plane. Still, there are some photos that present locations, which are impossible to enter by means of a plane. This certainly leads to the following question: how were these photos actually taken?