Over the years I’ve kicked out a bunch of vids shooting from the skies on commercial gigs, like here, here, here and here for starters. But occasionally, on the heels of a commercial assignment based out of a particularly stunning location, I’ll treat myself to some heli time shooting my ongoing aerial fine art project (personal work with dose of adventure). In fact, I’ve documented these adventures before — like here in New Zealand. I even did a how-to shoot aerial photography thingie here from Belize… but truth be told, all this flying never gets old.
And so it stands to reason that I’m rolling out another bit of aerial photo porn today in hopes of bringing a little joy/beauty to your day AND of course celebrating a quick hit to a gorgeous little corner of Iceland. Please enjoy. As always, taking your questions and comments below, answering those that I can muster.
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Beautiful place.
Very nice Chase. Can you recall the name of the company that you choose for your helicopter flight? Was it at Reykjavik?
Iceland is already on my bucket list. Just received a info bruchure. Really need to get there!!
I would also recommend Norway if you have not been there!
Thanks a lot for the effort + sharing!
Cheers
Michael
Thank you!!!
Looks like I need to add Iceland to the bucket list, as if that list wasn’t long enough already!
Thanks for the video.
Can’t recommend it highly enough. Spectacular landscape, lovely people.
You mentioned that you are shooting in full manual mode, are you also manually focusing?
I generally leave it on autofocus w the D4. It’s soooo good. But you can also stay at infinity focus if on manual. If you get to a point where you’re needing to focus (ie closer than about 20 meters) you’ve got bigger problems 😉 (plus I generally don’t just “leave it on manual focus” because sometime it can get bumped. Autofocus on those big cameras is almost bulletproof these days.
Indeed. I drove the entire west and southern coast on the commercial gig, but only flew out of REY for the afternoon. Got some epic panoramics in the other locations that i’ve built over the past couple months….some are 30+ feet long. I’d love to fly in other locales around Iceland, given the epic terrain…. If you have some favorites, let me know!