Popular Photography - February 2015 USA
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TIDE POOLS,<br />
MAUI<br />
Cornforth<br />
captured this<br />
view of La<br />
Perouse Bay in<br />
Maui, Hawaii,<br />
using the same<br />
gear as on<br />
the previous<br />
spread.<br />
Exposure:<br />
1/500 sec at<br />
f/5.0, ISO 400.<br />
JON CORNFORTH (4); PAUL SOUDERS (ELEPHANT)<br />
46 POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY FEBRUARY <strong>2015</strong><br />
What Drones Can Do<br />
When I travel to remote settings I<br />
sometimes hire a small airplane or<br />
helicopter to shoot aerials—a costly<br />
tool of the trade that isn’t always an<br />
option. While a drone can’t fly long<br />
distances or at high altitudes, it can<br />
capture aerial images for the cost of<br />
a battery charge. (That is, as long as<br />
your unmanned craft lands safely.)<br />
Traditionally, when photographing<br />
from an aircraft, a pilot flies at<br />
least 1,000 feet above the terrain<br />
and the photographer shoots with<br />
a slightly wide-angle to telephoto<br />
lens. Aerial images from a drone are<br />
created from much lower elevations.<br />
This perspective allows you to shoot<br />
with a fisheye or super wide-angle<br />
lens and capture more intimate and<br />
previously unseen views.<br />
Multirotor drones include fourpropeller<br />
quadcopters, six-propeller<br />
hexacopters, and eight-propeller<br />
octocopters. Depending on the size<br />
of the craft, it is possible to carry<br />
your camera into remote locations<br />
that are otherwise inaccessible<br />
to aircraft. The drones that afford<br />
the best access are quadcopters<br />
equipped with a GoPro or similarly
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