Page 23 - Australian Photography - September 2017

PHOTO TIPS: AMA Z ING AER IALS

hile travelling around North America earlier this year with my wife, I organised
a helicopter photography flight over Manhattan, New York, during the golden
and blue hour lighting phases. As with most genres of photography, planning
Wand research are critical to a successful shoot. Low light aerial photography
presents a number of interesting challenges which you will need to plan for in order to
overcome. After months of research I composed a shot list and determined I was going to
hire two Sony Alpha a7R IIs and two lenses, a Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM and a Sony
Distagon T* FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA. Unfortunately, no matter how well you plan, problems
you never considered tend to arise. Here’s what I learned.

This is my favourite image from my flight over Manhattan, however it only came about because air traffic
control had directed us around Central Park, instead of flying through it like we had planned. This image serves
as a reminder to always make the most of any given situation. Sony a7R II, Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM lens @
30mm, 1/250s @ f/2.8, ISO 2000.