Over the years I’ve kicked out a bunch of vids shooting from the skies on commercial gigs, like here, here, here and here for starters. But occasionally, on the heels of a commercial assignment based out of a particularly stunning location, I’ll treat myself to some heli time shooting my ongoing aerial fine art project (personal work with dose of adventure). In fact, I’ve documented these adventures before — like here in New Zealand. I even did a how-to shoot aerial photography thingie here from Belize… but truth be told, all this flying never gets old.
And so it stands to reason that I’m rolling out another bit of aerial photo porn today in hopes of bringing a little joy/beauty to your day AND of course celebrating a quick hit to a gorgeous little corner of Iceland. Please enjoy. As always, taking your questions and comments below, answering those that I can muster.
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I love Iceland and black & white, but not together. Iceland deserves to be seen in full color.
The light was a bit flat at times, which contributed to the decision for this video, but expressly my landscape photo project is aerial black and white…. so it get why you wan tot see it the way you want to see it, but my project doesn’t call for it.
Liked a couple of the shots at the end in B&W – but agreed that I wasn’t a fan of the video being in B&W. Difficult what you can do in really flat light.
When I grow up, I wanna be you 🙂
Kris
Me too (aka still need to grow up, just not ready yet 😉
Nothing short of fantastic, as always, Chase!
Did you share any still from Iceland? Looking forward checking them — if you did or once you do—.
—R•
How much planning and prep goes into something like this? Do you prep the pilot on specific routes and have a plan b,c and d for weather? Thanks for giving me an insight, and yes I will get on a chopper and shoot bro 😉
We discuss a route in advance, highlighting some features, and agree to rough length of flight, but generally i’m giving second-by-second instructions via my microphone into pilot’s headset. We discuss speed, flightpath, angle of rotor, everything you can imagine. That’s not necessary, but comes with experience and makes for better visuals / output when pilot and photog can collaborate.
Awesome video Chase! Are you shooting all the video handheld or with some kind of harness? Great tune as well!
The is shot out an open door in heli with a 5D MIII handheld. Run thru stabilizing software in post