I wanted to shoot for myself some of the fantastic abstract aerial images I have seen other photographers produce that are iconic to Iceland. Other photographers I’d spoken to have had to take many flights to get the lighting they wanted. Atlantsflug was very flexible for me in their scheduling. Although the weather was going to be “good” on the original day I’d set for my Custom Photo Flight, a day before the flight they allowed me to move it to another day, where the weather and lighting for photography were expected to be “great” – and indeed it was.
Before the flight, I showed my pilot (Thor) examples of the images I was interested in capturing. He did an excellent job in charting our course to put all those scenes, and more, in front of my camera, from a variety of angles.
I chartered the whole plane just for me, so I had both back seats to myself – thus I could easily switch from shooting out the opened left or right windows, as desired. My views were unobstructed by window glare, distortions, wing struts, or landing gears. Mostly I wanted to shoot straight down, and Thor accommodated me by gently banking the plane as needed. As a former pilot myself, I appreciated his skills and safety consciousness.
Thor was very knowledgeable and communicative during the flight, being sure that I was getting the images I was after. I highly recommend Atlantsflug if your objective is to get the best images possible of the spectacular, out-of-this-world aerial scenery that Iceland offers up.
