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{ 2009 01 06 }

San Francisco Aerial Photography

Aperture 2 is an amazing piece of software. I’ve been going back through photos that I long ago gave up on and seeing how Aperture might bring them back to life. Sure, in this set I had to give up on color and crank the contrast up to 11, but in the end the shots are at least viewable now. The starting files are from a Canon S110. In other words, crappy little JPEGs.

Pro tip: plane windows suck to shoot through.

BeforeAfter
3172234577_3c4eb556a0_m Bay Bridge - San Francisco
3172234507_04b7d5d507_m Bay Bridge - Oakland
3173066422_a58c06dab9_m Alcatraz
3172234743_f68accb84a_m San Francisco
Lean, Mean, Flying Machine
Posted by Patrick on Tuesday, January 6, 2009, at 6:00 pm. Filed under Photography. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. http://blog.patandkat.com/ibotj

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  1. Joshua Hart | January 7, 2009 at 12:10 am | Permalink

    These are amazing, Pat! You caught some great angles to begin with (don’t know if it was dumb luck or not), otherwise Aperture wouldn’t have done you any good.

  2. Greg Coates | January 7, 2009 at 10:16 am | Permalink

    Pat, I think the trick for aerials is to find a small plane with windows that will open.

    Speaking of aerials, have you seen the book Flying South by Barbara Rowell? She flies a small plane all the way down South America. Really amazing.