Aerial Photography

Aerial photographs are usually classified either as Verticals, where the camera is pointing straight down with the film plane parallel to the ground, or Obliques, taken at an angle to the ground.

- Lighting: Shadows : consider time of

- Haze can be reduced by UV filters

- Scale is more difficult when photographing obliques.

Some useful equations :-

format width x aircraft height (above ground)

Coverage = lens focal length

coverage x lens focal length

Aircraft height = format width

format width x aircraft height (above ground)

Lens focal length = Coverage

coverage x lens focal length

Format width = aircraft height (above ground)

http://smashingpicture.com/tag/photography/page

I really love desert aerial photographs, the textures shadows and colours are just beautiful.

http://www.phototravels.net/namibia/namib-desert-aerial-shapes.html