Flying home between Wanaka and Queenstown
Photo Tip – Shooting from Planes or the Air in the Daytime
My technique for shooting from the air is pretty simple. It actually took me a while to arrive at this formula, but it always seems to work. I go into Manual mode and then force my shutter speed to be extra-fast… maybe 1/1000th of a second. This ensures there is absolutely no blur. And then I let my ISO float and auto-adjust… I’ll often get my F-Stop as low as possible too so all the dirt and smudges on the window disappear. It works like 98% of the time! And, well, like the title says, this method only works in the daytime… night is a different beast.
Daily Photo – Flying home between Wanaka and Queenstown
The flight into Queenstown is maybe one of the most beautiful flights in the world. This is the Crown Range here, and you can’t quite see it, but there is a road there that connects Wanaka and Queenstown. It’s actually the highest road in New Zealand! It gets A LITTLE icy sometimes in the winter, and they often close it down… but when it’s open, the view there is as pretty as the view from this plane window!
