Aerial Photography

[Hill Country Hack]

I will be in the Yellowstone area on vacation next week. I have arranged a helicopter flight in and around north Yellowstone. I know I will need a faster shutter speed and higher ISO (?) to counter act the inherent vibration. Anyone out there ever do this before and can enlighten me?

[3bayjunkie]

your body should absorb most of the vibrations from a helicopter. you should only need a shutter speed of 1/1000 or higher.

[Jim Bryant]

If your body shakes, so will the camera. Set your f-stop at about f8 and use above 1000th. Higher shutter speed the better! Normally ISO at 400. I used to shoot out of planes and helos, we didn't care about depth of field because you are normally shooting down on the subject. Why need a depth of field of between the helo up in the sky to the ground? There's only sky between you and your subject.

[dlambert]

Here's an article w/ some ideas. I'm not sure you'll have the ability to remove the door, etc., but there's still some good stuff there. Here's another article that might be helpful.