It was another early start for us on Sunday morning as we had been asked to take some aerial images of the Nissan/BRW Corporate Triathlon on the Esplanade in Perth. It was quite a good course for aerial photography as the bike leg went up and back Mounts Bay Rd. which meant we could fly along the edge of the river at a good height for great shots - more info on these triathlon’s can be found here http://www.supersprint.com.au/
Just thought I’d put up some shots of the AC/DC stage that is currently at Subiaco Oval in Perth, took these yesterday as we were going past.
Here’s a short clip of some of the action from the Future Music Festival 2010, shot entirely on the Canon 7D using the 24-70 2.8, 70-200 is 2.8 and 15mm fisheye. Aerial footage all handheld.
Just put this on Youtube as well and plays heaps better on there; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DCWtDWf2Hk
A change of venue to Ascot Racecourse for the Future Music Festival seem’s to have paid off yesterday with a huge crowd turning up to see the likes of The Prodigy, Empire of the Sun, Franz Ferdinand and others. We started off with the aerial’s just after 4pm then it was on site for the crowd and band shot’s till the evening. This was probably one of the better events we’ve been to in recent times – thank’s must go to Mellen Events, helicopter pilot Elaine and very helpful assistant Justinya. There will be a video up within the next 2 day’s including some great shot’s from the heli.
Have been slowly going through all the new images from our latest Cape to Cape trip and am currently working on the Augusta one’s, with this one taken from the east side of the rivermouth the first. We used to go windsurfing along the rivermouth here almost 25 years ago when the mouth was actually 500m more to the west, quite a lot of change by nature in that time.
On a recent trip to Dunsborough I tried something that I never really like to do in the heli and that is using a polarizer, due mainly to the shutter speed getting too low, extra time to adjust and having a loose item in the cabin but as I’ve already got heap’s of image’s of Dunsborough it was time to try something different. Ended up with quite a few good shot’s all the way from Quindalup to the Cape so will put more up as I get time, this shot is taken from just north of Meelup looking back to Dunsborough - a section of coast I rode my bike along as a kid most day’s!
On the way down to Margaret River last week we came across this Landcruiser at the bottom of a cliff just north of Cowaramup, not 100% certain it was there as we didn’t mark it but in that area. Look’s like someone has driven off or pushed the car off the cliff and as there’s no access in that area I’d say that car will be there for awhile to come!
Well, here’s the video from the Australian Wavesailing Title’s held in Margaret River during the week. Filmed entirely on the Canon 7D with the 24mm 1.4 and the opening cabin segment with the 15mm fisheye, no gyro stabiliser – all hand held. Enjoy!
The Australian Wavesailing Titles have been on in Margaret River for the last few day’s and we have been down there doing video and stills for them from the heli. Here’s just a few image’s with the rest going up here http://www.australianwavesailingtitles.org/ within the next week plus some great video footage soon as well. Many thank’s go to Terry North (organiser), Heliwest, Dan(pilot) and the many other’s who helped on this project.
Here’s a few photo’s from the weekend as part of the previous entry.
