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Art Meets Industry: Helicopter Aerial Photography is made for Industrial Photography Demands

There is nothing quite as cool as mounting a camera on a radio-controlled helicopter, sending it flying, and taking brilliant high-resolution pictures from 500 feet up. It brings on a whole new meaning to the phrase "eye in the sky."

When we think of the concept of aerial photography we visualize some fellow taking a Nikon up in an aircraft and shooting pastoral photos of the earth below, in "fly-by" fashion. But when it comes to aerial photography today, this is actually the least you can do. Technological advancements over the past couple of decades have brought about wireless systems and gyroscopic stabilization, giving the opportunity to take focused, top quality images through radio controlled helicopter aerial photography. Actually, radio controlled helicopters are the ideal platform for aerial photography, and the applications are usually for commercial and industrial photography purposes.

Not merely for taking pictures of the decorative spires of buildings (although that would be certainly one thing that could be done with a camera fixed to a radio-controlled helicopter), mounting a camera on a helicopter allows for aerial photography to better serve in commercial and industrial photography capacities. When the helicopter comes with an infrared sensor, it can sense the temperature difference between itself and its surrounding environment. A very important feature if, as an example, the camera needs to take photos of a petrochemical stack that is not working, and in flames 500 feet up in the air, and burning at, say, 2000 degrees Celsius. This means the helicopter and camera can be maintained at a thermally safe distance, and it suggests that high-spec pictures can be taken of what is going wrong at the source of the malfunction. It allows for crews to know how to respond to the emergency, saving time and cash, not to mention how much safer this approach is when put next to sending some poor guy up there in a mylar industrial heat protection suit to check it out.

The radio controlled helicopter is equipped to permit the operator to see what the camera sees. Once the helicopter is in the right position, a switch on the transmitter can put in use the camera. The result is very high quality, detailed aerial photography, and inspectors can check from the security of the ground.

Learning to fly radio-controlled helicopters well takes years. For industrial purposes, a pro who specializes in elevated equipment inspections is completely necessary. Flares and Stacks Incorporated is one company that specializes in serving the industrial community with professional radio-controlled helicopter aerial photography. Appreciating that industrial photography is a powerful and expanding niche of the photography professional's universe suggests that photography is not just for local galleries these days.

Katherine Parker blogs on aerial photography and its useful applications to industrial photography needs.