Comments on: Inexpensive Pole Aerial Photography (PAP)

By: J. Carlton

J. Carlton — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:31:27 +0000

Larry,

I ran across this photographer’s site in a Adorama ad for workshops. Went to his site and found this great tool that might simplify using a pole for PAP. Hope you find it interesting.

http://pixsylated.com/2009/05/longarm-and-metalhead/

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:59:41 +0000

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By: Francoise (NH)

Francoise (NH) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:05:27 +0000

I use a 50′ mast mounted on a van, with a remote controlled digital camera. This provides complete control on panning, zooming and tilting. I can do it all from inside my van. What you see is what go get. Here is a link to some of my photos showing what is possible. http://www.overheadcamera.com/gallery.php

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:53:13 +0000

I did this yesterday with wonderful results! What a cheap and easy way to set yourself apart from the crowd. I had to drill a hole and run a screw through my tripod head into the pole to really secure it, and when I had to remove the head to put back on my tripod indoors, it was so stable it took some doing to get it off even on purpose! But in an older neighborhood, I did really have to be careful of those overhead lines, they were everywhere! I used a 12′ pole, so I could do it by myself. Any taller and the telescoping seemed too unwieldy to control swaying. The powerlines were in the shot if I went any higher than that anyway. Thanks for the great and easy tip. Though my camera cannot do burst on self-timer mode, I had to use the delay feature on multiple exposure mode and menu-dive to turn it on for every set of shots. So either a pain at one photo at a time on self-timer, or a pain to turn on the delayed burst, but still very easy to do.

By: Geoff Roberts

Geoff Roberts — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:04:44 +0000

You fellows are geniuses!! PAP is an absolutely brilliant idea. I had been exercising my brain on this subject when I read this article. I rushed out and bought the most humungous swimming pool pole I could find. It would extend about 7-8 metres. I had a manfrotto monopod that I wasn’t using and a manfrotto head , so I drilled and bolted the monopod to the pole – Brilliant. I use my Fuji S2 on the top – focus at infinity , if it is a sunny day (as they mostly are in Australia) I set the camera at f16 @1/250 or 1/125 and max wide angle and set the timer to 20secs. It takes a bit of an effort getting it up – it really needs two people – one to hold the pole still at the base and the other to push the pole up ,but with a bit of fiddling ,one person can do it. I t is fairly easy to point the lens in the right direction and you can experiment a bit . It is great because you can offer your RE agents an ëxtra” service at no cost and little trouble, making you the photographer of choice?? In summary – BRILLIANT

By: Joshua (N. GA)

Joshua (N. GA) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:27:30 +0000

Ok, I have to share this and give kudos to this photographer that has taken the pole idea and turned it into something massive! It’s a trailer setup with a remote controlled camera on a 60′(!) extended pole! I’m jealous…

I only wish he had better photos of the contraption up on his site:

http://www.sitphoto.com/frame_gbap.asp

By: Karl Witney

Karl Witney — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:57:02 +0000

Good day all. I noted that an update was added of using a small prtable LCD TV to preview the image. I do one better. I use a small and portable DVD player…why…because often I’m approached and asked what it is that I’m doing and why. Guess what, I have a preview DVD loaded inside my unit so I can explain the process and show the results. Being able to “educate the consumer” on the spot has provided more work and referrals than I can believe! The biggest hit was a local owner of a Buy Owner franchize that is now a fantastic salesman for me and FSBO homes.

A while back, I was working a wedding and used my pole camera to get a unique view and having the disk in place was worth it. I managed to do a entire interior and exterior shot of a house before going to market for $12M complete with staging from one of the guests. Made up for the lousy wedding sales on that job…

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