Window over Dallas

[arthur]

Kite aerial photography, photo taken from East Dallas.

[Jake]

Kite aerial photography?
Awesome shot!

[smoothassilk]

Kite aerial photography, Like to see your set up and how did you get it so still?

Kewl shot

[GUER03]

Beautiful shot! Thanx for sharing

[vfrjeremy]

Nice shot.
Did you seriously have the 20D up on a kite?

[thedaddymike]

The EXIF reads Canon PowerShot SD1000

[arthur]

Thanks for all the compliments.

I wish I could send the 20D up. Maybe in the future.

Yes, it was a Canon SD1000.

Here is the rig:


I bought it at: http://brooxes.com/newsite/BBKK/index.html

My kite, I bought at the website below, the "rainbow turtle rokkaku":

http://www.pictureprettykites.com/si...us/cat_17.html

The rokakku kite is a traditional Japanese design and is very stable in the air, without a tail. Ideally your kite will look like a postage stamp in the sky, motionless. This kite is 6.5 feet tall, so it has a lot of power to lift, even in light winds.

Stability is also achieved by the picavet suspension on the rig.

The way this particular rig works is that one servo rotates the rig 360deg in small increments. And the second servo pushes the shutter. This is all done automatically. There are other rigs that Brooxes sells that use remote control to point the camera and take the picture. You can also get rigs to fly a SLR.

To see what people around the world are doing:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/kiteaer...tography/pool/

KAP discussion board:
http://steel.ced.berkeley.edu/cris/kap/discuss/

[okevino]

Very cool shot and technique.

[12stones]

Excellent shot. I learned something new today.