August 2014

The art of taking photographs does not end after you have pressed the shutter button – it has only just begun!

Just like in the film-developing darkroom where you could dodge and burn areas of photographs to preserve or enhance details – or even superimpose features that were never there – the digital darkroom is still where most of the magic of photography happens today.

Horizon Imaging was recently commissioned to capture a set of aerial photographs of the wedding marquees at Coverwood Lakes in Ewhurst, Surrey. These are set up once a month during the summer, and boast an idyllic lake-side location surrounded on all sides by tall trees and landscaped gardens. Set in rolling Surrey countryside far away from roads or buildings, all you can hear is bird song, the odd moo and the wind rustling through the trees.

With the proliferation of ready-to-fly aerial photography platforms coming onto the market these days, it is easy to think that taking aerial photographs is just a question of buying an aerial photography platform and sending it up into the sky. Whilst owning an aerial photography platform is certainly a necessary step, it is merely a small part of a much larger process.

David Hogg, the Managing Director of Horizon Imaging, has just released a new video giving you a sneak peek behind the scenes of how Horizon Imaging operates.

John Durrant from Hello Photo and Doctor Photo, recently wrote an article for the Estate Agent Today blog entitled “Radio Controlled UAV’s (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) – On the Up. But are they legal?”.

As part of the article, John refers to points raised in a set of guidelines I have written for hiring an Aerial Photographer in the UK – guidelines which will shortly be available for free from this website.