{"id":1384,"date":"2022-05-31T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2022-07-28T13:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:24:26","slug":"telescopic-pole-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/telescopic-pole-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Telescopic Pole Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6245-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6245-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6245-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6245-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6245.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photo was carefully planned, for the time of year (trees are in bloom), the location, and a somewhat unusual downward angle. The human experience here (Boston Public Garden) includes sky and nearby skyscrapers. I chose to eliminate the sky and skyscrapers through use of a high camera position looking down. However, elevating the camera can be a difficult problem if there is nothing to stand upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favorite photographic tools is a telescoping pole with a camera mount at the top.&nbsp; Combined with a camera equipped with wi-fi, the camera can be raised up to 20 feet and operated from a mobile&nbsp; app on a smartphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pole_20396-1024x919.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1387\" width=\"768\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pole_20396-1024x919.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pole_20396-340x305.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pole_20396-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pole_20396.jpg 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A telescoping pole is often the best choice for a camera height of ten to twenty feet.&nbsp; To photograph from a height of forty feet or two hundred feet, I can use a small aerial drone. While a drone can be used at altitudes of fifteen or twenty feet, that could readily be a distraction and a nuisance to people who are trying to enjoy the park.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On multiple occasions my photographic intentions have been thwarted by the presence of utility wires strung upon poles.&nbsp; While I could  have flown an aerial drone above the wires, I instead chose to use a telescopic pole and place the camera twelve to eighteen inches below the wires.&nbsp; Personally, I don\u2019t want to fly a drone that close to wires. Unlike a drone camera, a pole-mounted camera can\u2019t move suddenly and potentially collide with wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For comparison\u2019s sake, I shot the same scene with the camera at eye-level.&nbsp; The location I chose for my photo was occupied by a nine-foot-tall shrub.&nbsp; The pole-mounted camera enabled shooting over the top of this shrub in the foreground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6249-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1388\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6249-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6249-1-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6249-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/I6A6249-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite photographic tools is a telescoping pole with a camera mount at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[237,236],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technique","category-tripod","tag-pole-camera","tag-telescopic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}