The “camera on a stick” technique

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I saw this today, so I was thinking about trying it out sometime...“camera on a stick”. A camera with a wide angle lens on a monopod and using a remote to fire some shots. To get something a little different !

Has anybody tried the technique out ?

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Paul
 
I'd only drop it :lol:
 
I've tried it to photograph my house from a different angle. But I didn't have enough light and couldn't get the shutter speed fast enough, then never bothered again. I've read about a few real estate photographers who use it though.
 
Could be interesting if you had one with live view connected to a laptop to aid composition.
 
I've played about with this technique before but never done anything particularily serious with it.
 
I'm afraid you'll have a helluva time trying to control camera shake. I doubt you'll ever get that under control with this m.o.
 
Thats one way of looking down a womans top



/runs off to tape the camera to the clothes line prop
 
I've read about people who suspended a camera from a kite, waaaay up in the air, and seen some shots. Or how about "UAV's"? Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The yanks use 'm to shoot missiles at the Taliban with. So imagine what a nerd with a remotely controlled toy plane with built-in camera could do!
 
W.Smith said:
I've read about people who suspended a camera from a kite, waaaay up in the air, and seen some shots. Or how about "UAV's"? Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The yanks use 'm to shoot missiles at the Taliban with. So imagine what a nerd with a remotely controlled toy plane with built-in camera could do!
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There are few of them around that I have seen, looks really cool. There are some 360 shots from a kit somewhere on the net...will try and dig it out. Though I probably saw it on here first :p
 
Here's a guy who uses the monopod in his wedding photography.
 
They have been attaching slr's to r/c heli's for years, I've even seen techniques mentioned in books before (guarding the remote firing etc). It would be quite easy if you had a helicopter cablable of holding the weight of the camera without being way off-balance. The triggering would just be done of a button on the controller.
 
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