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I wanted to do this project, but never got round to it. A helicopter or high-res drone video mapping and still photo survey of Skid Row in L.A. I had heard Trump wants to make homelessness illegal. I don't know if that is even possible or how it would affect Skid Row. But irrespective of that, Skid Row would make an interesting project to document aerially. In the shadow of City Hall L.A, CA 2015 D.D. Teoli Jr. I haven't been back to L.A. in ages once I moved on to work in NYC. This was taken Skid Row adjacent so to speak. I was on the way to the airport early AM and shot it through the front widow of my rental car with a Fuji 16MP crop camera the last time I was there in 2015. (+ 45 minutes of post work in Lightroom.) The reason it is super scope ratio is because I had to cut out all the car above and below the image shown. The hallmark of the good documentary photographer is they get the goods no matter what. (Well, at least best they can.) I had planned to go back to L.A. do the aerial Skid Row project around 2016-17. I picked up a used 40MB Pentax 645D medium format camera on eBay and some film lenses and was going to rent some helicopter time, but finances precluded ever finishing the project. If you got a good drone, I guess that is what they use now. (Can you get decent medium format quality footage from a drone?) Anyway, something to think about if you are near L.A., you got nothing to do, some $ and time. Oh, and have a good tether for your gear and harness so you stay put. Get the door taken off the helicopter so you have freedom of movement. And get as low as legal limits as you can in the helicopter to get good detail. If you can swing a big boy Phase One camera, maybe you won't need to get as low. Medium format digital gives you fantastic detail! <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

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I believe this is a very large and smooth flying helicopter. Has anyone shot from this? I won't have the luxury of a mount, so I'm curious about how smooth of a ride it will be hand-held. Thanks.