Iwan Baan photograph New York City from the air last Wednesday , and his figure of speech has become perhaps the most iconic disc of Sandy , gracing the cover of New York magazineand flooding the cyberspace . This is how he got the shot .
Poynter caught up with Baanto ask him about how the range come about . turn out he personally rented a whirlybird on Wednesday night after the violent storm hit — but then he had the difficult undertaking of snapping mental image using a hand-held camera , from a whirlybird constantly vibrating and moving . He explains :
“ With these aerials you shoot a lot , fit of images , to finally blame one out there which is sharp . It ’s hard if it ’s freezing out of doors , you do n’t have a doorway , chopper is go and vibrating , etc . , but you really make for towards an idea , visualization of that image which you have in judgement . ”
To get the shot , he expend an hour photographing the metropolis using a Canon EOS-1D X and 24 - 70 mm f/2.8 L lens . The delineation that finally made it to the covering fire of New York was taken with an ISO of 25,600 , 1/40 shutter speed . On the kit he used , Baanexplains :
“ [ It was ] the sort of shot which was impossible to take before this photographic camera was there . ”
He does , of course , bury to mention his great talent , as well as the monolithic bollock ask to chute into a helicopter and fly over NYC last workweek . [ PoynterviaVerge ]
Image fromNew York Magazine / Iwan Baan
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