Friday easy read - about the subtle differences doing aerial photography with an old-school kite, or with a hi-tech drone.
Article on Medium.
With some aerial photos, of course! ;-)
Well, we've found some strange circles in our kite aerial photos and decided to investigate ...
And then many things happened: a rogue kite was flying alone, the circles were not what we thought they were, and a piece of ancient pottery was found.
Did our kite really discover an Iron Age...
There is an article on Medium I'd like to share with you: A View from a kite.
It's about the hows and whys about kite aerial photography; how it compares with drones and other aerial photography platforms, some experience, info and tips.
Hope you find it interesting ... ;-)
Wow ... thanks for this! :-)
Yeah, extracting frames is painful and futile ... but on the other hand you can't do (good) videos with a kite - it just shakes and dances too much, and there is very limited control ... :-)
Thank you! :)
The 'equipment' (apart from the kites) is a rig called "Picavet" that holds the camera and is always in a horizontal position regardless of kite line swaying:
(this is an older version of the rig; the new one has pan-and-tilt frame holding the camera)
We use two cameras, a...
thanks! :)
yeah, we started kite aerial photography with an action cam too and were doing the same, extracting frames ... but even a very stable kite is shaking as hell compared to a software-controlled drone, so the videos were unusable and frames were lo-res, and we switched to a regular...
Hi everyone!
Here are some aerial photos taken with a little unusual "drone" - a kite :)
This is intermittent lake Cerknica, Slovenia, now in the process of shrinking and disappearing. Shot with Nikon 1 J1 on a so called "french military" kite.
Hope you like them ... ;)