Filming and Photography With Drones

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The view from Coptercam, an aerial photography company in Perth, Australia, that uses customized small unmanned systems to take pictures from a different point of view. This photo is of the South Perth foreshore. Photo courtesy Coptercam.

Helo beautiful Minicopters take the art of photography to the skies By Danielle Lucey

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optercam officially opened for business 26 April. In four days, they had 20 film shoots. The Australian company’s founder, Hai Tran, thought using unmanned aerial vehicles for still and video photography would be merely a side job, but now with the company’s instant popularity, he says may have to rethink that. “We were expecting doing two jobs a week initially,” he says. The only thing currently holding the company

back is Perth’s rainy season, which lasts the winter through September.

platform for taking photos to gain a different perspective in his pictures.

“My two passions in life have always been flying and photos,” says Tran, who is an aviator by hobby.

“It didn’t seem like a feasible business, because any person from a

A year or two ago he had an idea to start using model aircraft as a mobile

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