{"id":147,"date":"2012-07-06T04:44:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuastairhime.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2013-04-17T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:53:09","slug":"whatever-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuastairhime.com\/index.php\/whatever-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Whatever It Takes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45339384\" height=\"213\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty happy with this one. \u00a0Particularly the flight shots at the end. \u00a0Want to know how I got them? \u00a0You&#8217;ll have to read the rest of the post!\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We had originally planned to do a few flyovers in a plane, so I was getting ready to rent a gyro stabilizer and really make sure we made the most of a few once in a lifetime shots I thought we could get from there. \u00a0I&#8217;m not 100% sure what happened, but the plane wasn&#8217;t going to work in the long run. \u00a0They ended up getting a firetruck in and put someone on the top of its 85&#8242; foot lift with a camera (thanks Eric S.) but I knew we didn&#8217;t really have access to a lens long enough to make that work. \u00a0(The longest lens available was 200mm, which even with the added crop of the APS-C sensor wasn&#8217;t enough to make up for the distance from the event.)<\/p>\n<p>So I got online 2 days before the event, and ordered a small weather balloon, went to Walmart and bought a foam pool noodle, and we even managed to track down some helium from a local auto parts store the day of the event. \u00a0I&#8217;ll update this post at some point with pictures of the actual rig, but for the short amount of time and very limited budget (the whole shot cost under $125) I think the results were decent. \u00a0I had 2 GoPro&#8217;s in the rig to do the shooting, and I they did pretty decent. \u00a0 Check out the end of the video and let me know what you think about our last minute flight shots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Did you enjoy what you just read?  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