aerial photography
southern Maine coastline up to Cape Neddick
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Next time you might look into a fixed wing aircraft. The rates should be about half what you paid or less. The biggest problem is figuring out how to not shoot through a window. Only some fixed wing aircraft have a photo window in the back. If it's a Cessna and it has a window that opens on the front right (pilot usually sits on the left in a fixed wing), you can ask the pilot to remove the screw on the bracket that keeps the window from opening all the way (before the flight, naturally). That way you can open the window all the way. The slipstream will hold the window open against the bottom of the wing. You just have to be careful when opening the window to keep the slipstream from slamming the window against the wing. When taking pictures out of a Cessna, I'll shoot down and slightly towards the back to keep the strut out of the shot. That's how I do all my aerial photos. When I'm taking pictures from a fixed wing aircraft with good light I normally just set ISO to 100, aperture priority with the lens stopped down a stop or two. If it's a fast lens and I have good light, this usually puts me at around 1/750 or so. I always use a wide angle lens. I've found that 24mm on an APS-C sized sensor works pretty well. It's about the widest I can go and still keep the airplane parts out of the shot for the most part. Most of my wide angle lenses are not VR lenses (I think the Canon equivalent is IS?), but if I'm using a VR lens I'll set it to active mode. When using a wide angle lens, often you have to get fairly close, and as long as I can shoot at about a 45 degree angle to the ground, the pictures usually do quite well. I try to keep the camera lens out of the slipstream and I don't brace myself against the aircraft. Although you feel more steady when you brace against the aircraft, you're actually directly transferring all the vibration.
Here's a shot I took last week using these methods:
