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Kite Aerial Photography

Posted by michael on from the fish-eye dept.

j cherney writes "A great combination of digital photography, kite flying, and wireless remote control. Absolutely incredible pictures. Enjoy!" We've mentioned this expensive pursuit a few times before, including a bit on how to build one of your own.

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  1. Re:Lacks composition by eingram · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not art just because you don't like it. What about slinging your brush and dripping paint on a giant canvas? Would you consider that art or not (Jackson Pollock)?

    Yes, it's art.

  2. Re:Hmm by metlin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...and lawyers ;-)

  3. Re:Why not video? by JanneM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The resolution is not good enough, I think. Since you are taking panoramic pictures with a lot of small detail, you really want high resolution or any particular ground feature will just devolve into a few fuzzy pixels. To take really good arial pictures, I would expect black and white film photography probably is by far the best (though perhaps least convenient) choice.

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  4. Re:Coral P2P Cache by drawfour · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that the Slashdot editors should take it upon themselves to modify all links in the submitted article to be Coral'd. Now that a method exists by which to help eliminate (or greatly reduce) the /. effect, Slashdot owes it to the websites to which it links to prevent whatever /. effect it can.

  5. Re:The Coral P2P Cache is too late! by Dianoga · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps all slashdot links should automatically have the nyud.net:8090 tacked on. Save everyone the trouble

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  6. Re:Lacks composition by Erno_Rubaiyat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pointing your camera at the ground and pressing the shutter does not a piece of art make.

    unless you happen to be minor white

    Sure you get a bunch of photos, but can you really say that you, the photographer, were the one taking the random, haphazard pictures?

    Seriously consider found art, Dada, postmodern art and other forms of high art and the answer is yes, btw did you bother to look at the pictures before ranting? I am a photographer and was taken by the composition and beauty of the pictures.

    I hate when people demean art by claiming that their homespun crap is on par with the work of true artists.

    It is impossible to demean art. I hate it when people think that art has to be made by a certain class of people to be art. And by homespun crap are you referring to folk art? If it was in a gallery you would call it art.

    I'm looking right at you, Thomas Kinkade!

    And poor Thomas Kinkade will go home and cry in his big pile of money.