Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) is a unique form of photography and from what I can tell it is a fairly unknown art form. So here is a brief overview of it and a few resources that you can look at to find more information. Most photographic books or web-pages I read assume you have a stable tripod for landscape work. In a similar way to the still life photographer spend a long time selecting the scene and composing the picture. Even with the most stable suspension system in the world this just isn’t going to happen with KAP. So when you compose the picture you do the best you can then shoot off lots of digital images. Once back on the computer you can use your instinct to select, crop, edit and stitch an image. Purists will argue that this post-processing on the computer isn’t in the spirit of photography, but I see it all as part of the art, craft, and fun of KAP.
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February 9th, 2008
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