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Airline Says ‘No Photography’ on Flights

Chris Knight — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:44:54 +0000

Recently, NPR featured an article about a woman that was kicked off an American Airlines flight for singing a Whitney Houston song, but there was something else that caught the attention of at least one of their writers. During the video, crew members can be repeatedly heard telling people they aren’t allowed to film or photograph onboard the plane. [more]

Time & Google Timelapse 30 Years Of Satellite Photography

Aaron Lindberg — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:47:00 +0000

Time and Google have created an astounding, multi-decade animated timelapse of the Earth. It is nothing short of amazing the amount of satellite photographs that has been collected and crunched. Trillions of pixels of satellite data which until now, have not been available to the public. Locations around the Earth can be searched and viewed through the latest project Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images. [more]

Space Oddity: Chris Hadfield Makes First Ever Music Video from Space

Jaron Schneider — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:35 +0000

This is one of those projects that is almost beyond words. Astronaut Chris Hadfield shot this music video to express his feelings of leaving the International Space Station, and it’s basically the coolest possible way to go out. If you haven’t yet seen this (which you probably have but heck, it’s so amazing I just had to share), quit reading and hit the play button. Your life needs this music video. [more]

Drone Camera Shoots Super Slick Skater Video “Firefly”

Aaron Lindberg — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:21:18 +0000

Firefly is a super slick skater video shot with a JamCopter, a remote controlled helicopter rigged with a camera, that follows a skater and his LED lit board around a city.

The birds eye perspective and high camera angle shots create some really nice movements and give scale to the skaters journey. The project was created by samadhiproduction.cz and utilizes the use of remote controlled helicopters from jamcopters.cz.

Very cool, very slick, very simple. [more]

Yokohama’s BTS of Sports Cars Playing Duck Duck Goose and X’s and O’s

David Strauss — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:56:04 +0000

In one of their most recent advertising campaigns, Yokohama blends a fun mix of high speed sports car chases and childhood games to produce two different commercials. The filming process involved multiple rigs and setups to get a variety of shots, including the director hanging through the windshield of a truck filming the driver. Check out the final commercials below.

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Google Street View Makes it to the World’s Highest Peaks

Jerrit Pruyn — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:01:44 +0000

There are two things I love, the outdoors and Google. When these two come together great things have to happen. Google employee (and bad ass) Dan Fredinburg lead a team up mountains, Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Aconcagua (Argentina), Elbrus (Russia), and Everest Base Camp (Nepal). Dan used a simple tripod and fish eye lens to capture the landscape and travel as light as possible. Check the rest of the post to see the interactive mountain views and some behind the scenes photos of the team.
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How To Film A Skate Movie – Red Bull Perspective

Chris Lambeth — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:31:09 +0000

Ever wonder how Red Bull or any other company films their skate videos? How they get those awesome flying shots, rolling shots, and what goes into every aspect of the films? In this video, Red Bull takes you behind the scenes in their new skate video. To say the least, it’s pretty amazing. [more]

Record-Breaking 320 Gigapixel Image Taken of London

Chris Knight — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:28:39 +0000

By stitching together 48,640 individual frames, a new image, taken for the BT Tower in London, has broken the record for the largest panorama in the world. The image was taken using a rig of seven Canon 7D cameras, each equipped with a 400mm lens plus extender. What does this mean? Well, if you live in London, it means a lot of people are going to be able in look into your window.
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Man Records a First Person POV of Plane Crash

David Strauss — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:15:38 +0000

With video now available to most people through their phones and devices, not only can people easily capture the happy memories on the spot, they can also video the horrifying ones. For a birthday gift for his wife, Jonathan Fielding and his family took a flight over snow covered Utah. When the pilot announced that the carburetor had iced over, Jonathan pulled out his phone and filmed the impending crash. [more]

17 Bird-Eye View Images You Have To See

Noam Galai — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:26:46 +0000

As photographers we always look for that different angle, something that will make our images unique and special. Sometimes it means laying down on the floor, and sometimes it means renting a helicopter or a drone. Shooting from high-up is not only different and interesting, its also unique and pretty rare. Check out this great collection of Bird-Eye view images found on Flickr.
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