Composing from a helicopter’s cockpit, high above the slopes of Mount Hollywood, and looking west into the Los Angeles basin that extends to the Pacific coast, Dinesh Boaz frames the famous Griffith Observatory. Although it’s a typical aerial image for this seasoned X-Photographer, this isn’t a typical day at all.
“There were a bunch of new things going on during that session,” says Dinesh, an experienced aerial photographer and GFX system user. “For starters, I was trying out some higher altitudes than I would normally. I wanted to challenge myself to get in some of those different patterns and heights, because that’s another look for me. Typically, I fly over locations at 500-1000ft. Below 500ft is dangerous, and going much higher than 1000ft, you’ve got to get more permissions as you’re getting into the space of commercial airplane traffic.