Idaho Airships, Inc.

My apologies for not having been faithful in posting over the last several weeks. For whatever reason our busy season hit with a vengeance around the last week of May-in spite of the economy-and I’ve been far behind the power curve.

These are some examples of images we’ve produced over the past several weeks. They are obviously distinct from our more standard work in forensics, engineering and construction, etc.

We didn’t even get to Idaho Falls or Pocatello during the period, but spent more time than usual in Ketchum, Sun Valley, and Hailey.

A sunrise southeast view of the South Fork of the Boise River. This sort of image is what we’re known for not doing-I must have been in some sort of weird “art” mood?

Sub-inch pixels are pretty rare in orthographic imaging. This is the old highway to Boise from Mountain Home, and it’s in rough shape. We imaged miles of this subject this intimately-in hot, unstable air.

There are an incredible number of Interstate 84 projects either recently completed or currently underway in the Treasure Valley. Technical shooters will note that the Interstate is skewed (tilted) in the image-we aligned for the overpass, and the Interstate is actually acute to it (not perpendicular).

We’ve also been doing a good bit of mast work (using our 71′ telescoping “monopod”) this summer. It also does multiple exposure (HDR) and time lapse aerials. This image was shot from 30′ with declination.

This was a very difficult shoot-the Sun Valley Lodge Pavillion. It was shot in the early morning for dramatic shadow and lighting character, but the sun was direct into the white cover-a terrible challenge for exposure. I was able to maintain much of the warm, “bronze” early morning light bias. Canon 1DsMIII.

Our fancy ride. Lee (left) and Leo (right), looking a bit rough…but we had been up since 3:00am and gone through two tanks of fuel already. Cut us some slack!

New construction at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range) image shot with a 24mm Perspective Correcting Lens.

Shoshone Falls in Twin Falls, early on a summer’s morn. I was actually there to shoot the accompanying rainbow (the shoot was successful) but like the powerful texture of this image better.

Low clouds (AKA fog) in the mountains of northern Idaho, before sunrise, cascading through the range. They were acting a lot like very slow, slow surf.

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