I recently had a great opportunity last week to shoot for Fury Adventures in Key West. They did a great job scheduling us with the wind and tide and the conditions were as good as could possibly be wished for, which is key when it comes to aerial photography. For this particular shoot we were strapped ass backwards in the parasail and launched from 100 - 400 feet in the air.  The challenge with this is there is no real way to pivot once you are in the air, you have only got two angles to shoot from; down and...

I recently had a job that required me to rent a Canon 17mm tilt shift lens. For the non-geeks out there this is a $3000 speciality lens that allows you to shift and tilt your plane of focus to correct distortion or to create landscapes that look like a miniature  out of Beetlejuice. Pretty cool stuff. This type of lens is used primarily for architecture shots. I'll go ahead and answer the obvious question right now - yes, you could just use Photoshop and a few clicks of the mouse to correct distortion instead of having to rent this beast...