Balloon Aerial Photography
Yahoo is wrapping up their time capsule project and then archiving it all with the Smithsonian. Time Capsule Camp was a gathering of media makers and some cool workshops that I got to attend yesterday.
While there, I tried sending up my kite aerial photography rig, but there wasn’t enough wind to get the rig in the air. Plan B went into effect and I got lots of help from folks including my friend 3ric to gather a ton of balloons and put the rig up that way.
There are a few differences between kite and balloon photography. There is an interesting thing that happens when you hold onto a string with balloons on it. While you’re letting it out, it goes up, but as soon as you put tension on it, any breeze at all will push it down. It’s a trigonometry thing that resulted in […]
