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Re: Kite aerial photography

Postby Foxalive » Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:03 pm

Wow, it's so interesting to see good-quality aerial photographs. Thanks for sharing your how-to videos and posting the details. What about some night sky photography? I would really like to see some not photoshopped beautiful pictures of the sky. I tried it myself on my iPhone, but things were not that easy. Glad I found some help on the internet on it https://backlightblog.com/star-photography-iphone. Some how-to videos and photography taken during nighttime would be a good thing to consider, from my point of view. It would be of great use.
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Re: Kite aerial photography

Postby montagdude » Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:05 pm

I'm glad you liked it. As for night sky photography, I think that works better from the ground. After all, the stars don't look any different from the ground or a few hundred feet up. Plus they require long exposures, so it would need to be really well stabilized. It might work with a drone carrying a high-quality camera, but probably not a kite. I have been trying to do some different style KAP pictures lately, though. Here is one I took the other day looking down from directly above a fishing pier.

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Re: Kite aerial photography

Postby wlbragg » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:36 pm

That is a really cool picture.
I think op may be referring to night images of the ground and ground lighting or city lighting.
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Re: Kite aerial photography

Postby montagdude » Tue Feb 22, 2022 3:51 pm

I spent the winter designing a new R/C kite aerial photography rig. Here is a video that shows the build and flight testing.

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