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PHOTO TIPS: AMA Z ING AER IALS

7 PLAN FOR SUCCESS ing for how the city looked not only from different aerial

As with most aspects of photography, the
perspectives but how different lighting events such as the
more you plan and the better prepared you
golden hour and blue hour, shaped the city and changed
are, the greater your chances of success will
its look and feel. From this research, I was able to deter-
be. Aerial photography is certainly no ex-
mine that certain images that I wanted to capture had to
ception and in fact heavily depends upon a
highly detailed and well thought out plan.
be taken at very specific times. Using the application Phot-
My planning process began roughly six
lighting events, as well as the direction of the sunset. Utilis-
months prior to my flight. I started my re-
search by finding images that other photog-
ing sites such as 500px which give photographers the op-
tion to display Exif metadata, I was able to gain an under-
raphers had taken on their flights over New oPills, I was able to find out the time and duration of these
York. This research enabled me to gain an understand- standing of what focal lengths and camera settings were