Flying Photography - 7/24/2011

How cool it is to try and make someone fly in the air? I saw this photo in Yahoo and was intrigued by capturing flight. This is our first experiment in flying photography. Thanks to Cindy who was a real sport for flying for us and also got much exercising as well. The skill is that Cindy has to fly and I setup a multiple shooting mode at high speed (I tried 1/250).  Then check which image shows the best flight.  It was super sunny and it worked in one respect that I could get a shadow to show the flight.. but it was really tough as you get really blown out shots. We first tried just plain walking in the air.

Then we tried flying.

I saw this shot w/ the umbrella on the website so we decided to try it. The umbrella helped with providing shade and less overexposure.  Next time, we should try balloons.

We tried all kinds of flying shots..

Then Erick had a great idea of the multiple shots ... here's my flight with landing. Pretty cool if it weren't for the blown out parts.. All it all, It was great fun with lots of laughs. Something definitely to try again.