To take aerial photos, you need to attach your camera to a balloon, kite, pole, or whatever! Try the "standard" rubber band rig, the venerable soda bottle rig, or the juice jug rig. (above image via @mathew in this post) Activities Not all #photo-rig designs have been adapted into activities, but here are number that have been started: [activities:photo-rig] Questions [questions:photo-rig] (above image via @mathew in this post)...
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| mathew | "I made a 3D file from those images: https://recap360.autodesk.com/fireflyviewer/77a3022e96ca4a818ce8ef862aa65b35 I wasn't able to process the whol..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| taramei | "excited to try this " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | " " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Here's the same full size with the levels adjusted: " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | " This is 37% of the original panorama: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136076606@N02/28323968824/in/dateposted-public/ " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Further panoramas from more recent flights " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "While we were hacking away on this, I tried two landscape mounts for the camera. Adding a small ball head to the top was pretty successful: T..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "One precaution to prevent crushing the pole is to attach only to the double-thick area at the top of the tube. Right where the pole sections stack,..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "@Ecta64 that's interesting, and it makes sense that the panorama would turn out that way since the bend at the top of the pole is rotating along wi..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "That's good thinking Chris, I'll be adding a note in the instructions about the lanyard. I'll have to experiment with some plugs that might work, t..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This looks like nicely elegant and simple solution. I might add two things: 1) a lanyard that connects the camera to the second smallest pole secti..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks, Chris! I used a Fusion 360 model with the full assembly in the "wireframe with visible edges only" visual style and took screenshots, th..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ranon those are excellent assembly diagrams. Did you make those in Fusion 360? Is there a special mode for that? It looks like a week of work. Wel..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Here's that picture of the pendulum with the carabiner wrapped around one end: I started wrapping the line around the carabiner, which I now rea..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "@Ranon and I went out flying last night, and with the gusty conditions had trouble getting the panorama more than a few feet off the ground-- our 9..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This is a really helpful report. You broke some new ground (but no cameras) and added lots of good information. You might be right that the line j..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| hagitkeysar | "I love the distorted grass image. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| klie | "Whoa thanks for sharing that link @mathew - good Saturday read :) A++ " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Glenn Davison has answered many of these questions in the AKA guide to kite flying. I can't believe I'd never seen it before. A+ excellent: http:..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Of these options, the rubber band holds the firmest-- simplest and cheapest, though rather ugly looking. @cfastie's points about pins are good one..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "The other option was the zip tie only method from all my little pendulum rig notes. You snug up a zip tie as tight as you can, then slide if off th..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "another thought is using a rubber band wrapped around the dowel, then clamped with a small zip tie. The combination of pressure from the tie on the..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Wooden dowels are widely available, but they also vary widely in quality. Oak and sometimes maple dowels are fairly reliable and birch, poplar, and..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks for the input Chris! The reason I have been using wooden dowels is for their wide availability (can be consistently found at any craft, har..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago |