Many people have had the experience of following a recipe carefully and looking at the finished product, asking, "Why doesn't it look like the picture?" The reason is food photography, a niche art that requires technical skills, specialized equipment, and lot of experience to get right. In the same way that famous actors and actresses always look a lot different up close in real life, a plate of food or a bowl of fruit is going to look ordinary on your counter. But when professional food ...

Not that long ago, say a decade or so, only video producers with a big budget could afford to include aerial shots. Unless you owned a helicopter or were willing to rent a costly boom, you were limited with what you could shoot. Today, however, thanks to the wide availability of low-cost drones and improvements to video cameras, just about anybody can easily include a bird’s eye view in their video. From establishing shots to sweeping panoramas and more, aerial video photography adds dr...