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A set of aerial photographs by Jason Hawkes featured on Boston.com’s “The Big Picture”.
These shots were taken from a twin-engine helicopter using two separate gyro stabilizing mounts, mounted together into one larger mount to get the stability required for incredibly crisp images.
“I have specialized in aerial photography from helicopters for 19 years so am used to the other difficulties, i.e. cramped and very noisy condition. You fly with the door of the helicopter open wearing a headset to direct the pilot. In daylight without a mount you have to shoot at 1000 sec because of the vibration caused by the rotor blades, so having to shoot at very low shutter speeds at night it takes quite a while to change your habits in order to correctly use the gyro. Flying over cities you need a twin engined helicopter that costs £1100 ( GBP ) per hour, so its a very expensive technique to perfect.”
See full interview with Jason Hawkes
