We were filming this week for Life of Duty and had the chance to capture a special operation involving a Blackhawk Pave Hawk helicopter. After seeing it land and take off a number of times, we starting thinking about fun ways to capture unique shots of the helicopter.
The landing zone happened to be a cow pasture with multiple gopher holes, so we decided to try shoving our Canon 7D and 60D cameras into a hole facing up to capture helicopter landing and taking off from a perspective we knew we couldn’t get from a manned camera.
By the end of the day, the helicopter pilot figured out what we were doing and aimed to land the ‘bird’ as close as he could to our cameras.
This is a fun, behind-the-scenes video of some of this.