Up, up and away
May 25
I got excited a couple weeks ago reading about a project in Wired magazine.
“Tie your digital camera to some helium balloons,” it said, “and take aerial pictures of your house.”
So, since I’m about eight years old at heart (it was an article about projects dads can do with their kids, after all), I convinced Stephanie and Quentin to play along last weekend as I tried to make the camera fly.
35 helium party balloons
500 feet of curling ribbon
2 rubber bands
1 digital camera
Simple enough. If we had a little more cooperation from the wind, it might have turned out even better. A stiff breeze and fading daylight made most of the pictures pretty blurry. But we did get a few good ones. Pretty fun way to burn a couple hours on a Sunday.
(UPDATE (5/27): Added some behind-the-scenes photos.)
And we tried some video, too.
This is so awesome! I might have to use this on a shoot sometime. Where are the behind the scenes photos, or the photos of the rig?!
Ha. I’m thinking we might have done this whole thing without taking a picture of the camera setup. Will check, though.
This is why these things are best left to the professionals.
This is how Google Maps does it. Duh. Didn’t you know that?