We all know that aerial photography is the art of taking pictures from above (usually from an airplane or helicopter). However, most people don’t think of it as an art so much as they do a tool for use by various industries. It’s true that these images are often used in building and monitoring areas. However, this type of photography really can be an art.

There are three major types of art that may utilize aerial photography:

• Film. Start paying attention to how many scenes in films and television are photographed from above as the scene unfolds below. The most basic example is when someone in a crime show or movie is thrown off of a balcony and you see them from above.
• Commercial art. Aerial photography can create a great impact on a viewer visually. This enhances commercial art and allows for better marketing of some items. Flip through any magazine and you’ll probably notice it.
• Creative art. Photographers who want to go one step further in their work will frequently get into photographing from multiple perspectives such as up in the air.

There is definitely a science to aerial photography (just look up "photogrammetry" and you’ll learn all about it) but there’s also an art to it and that shouldn’t be forgotten when the topic comes up.

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The main thing that you should focus on when you go to school is, of course, your education. However, sometimes you’re going to prefer entertainment to studying. One thing that’s fun to do is to find out which celebrities might have attended the school that you’re going to if things had worked out differently in their lives. In other words, learn about which celebrities used to live near the school that you attend.

For example, let’s say that you go to IADT Detroit. The following people are all from Detroit and therefore could’ve attended the school if they hadn’t gone on to the celebrity path they followed:

• Tim Allen
• Elizabeth Berkley
• Francis Ford Coppola
• James Earl Jones
• Obie Trice
• Tom Selleck
• William Boeing
• Oscar Mayer
• Madonna
• Eminem

Detroit is no celebrity hot spot. You can play this little entertainment game whether you’re enrolled at one of the Gibbs Degree programs in New York or you’re attending Brown Career College in Minnesota. Famous people come from all over the country. And if things had worked out just a little bit differently in their lives than they did, there’s the possibility that they could have attended the exact school that you’re taking classes at today.

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