41 Aerial: plane shots

Just say no to the in-flight movie

Alexis Gerard

The Idea

Taking a trip via commercial jet gives you an opportunity to create photographs that look like very few you've ever seen published. That's because almost all aerial photography is done from private planes and helicopters, which fly below the cloud cover-much lower than commercial airlines. In recent years we've also seen a lot of images of our earth shot from space, usually by satellites, but obviously, that point of view is from a much higher attitude than the one you'll have from your window seat.

Cloud Formation Viewed from a plane, cloudscapes take on a very different aspect from our familiar land-based perspective.

The Ingredients

  • ▶ Any camera (ideally, with ...

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