aerial photographs of Birmingham

IM4204	IM4209	Fort Dunlop	IM4295
Birmingham Airport	Longbridge	Spiral Cafe	Victoria Law Courts
Aston Villa	St Andrews Ground	Alexander Stadium	County Ground
Birmingham Cathedral	St Martins church	Big Wheel	St Pauls Square
Arcadian Centre	Millenium Point	Fireservice HQ	Birmingham city centre
Park Central	BrindleyHs& BT Twr	Council House	Cacacombs
Gas st basin	Sherborne st wharf	Oozells st loop	Bullring
Chamberlain Fountain	Chamberlain Clock	Sundaymarket	New St Station

For the full selection of aerial photos of Birmingham click here for the city centre images

 

The suburbs are all in a separate gallery - click here

 

Now being uploaded, the highest resolution civilian aerial photographs of Birmingham ever taken, and that's no Bull !

 

 

Lots of aerial photographers have shot the Bullring, I decided to go one better and shoot the bull. The above is a 100% crop from one of my new 21 megapixel Canon 1DS mkII with gyro stabilized and image stabilized ultra long lens. Shot from thousands of feet in the air while moving at 100 mph. Click here to see the whole image. NB these are all very compressed to JPEG 3, the original is even better.

Out now- the latest in my "from the air seiries of books"

Birmingham from the air

 

 

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photos of St Patrick's Day Parade on 12th March 2007 (click here )

(2009 images also available  and are even more detailed )

I fly regularly to Birmingham and have special clearance to fly within the Birmingham Air traffic control zone so if you would like a specially commissioned image taken to exactly your requirements then email me or can also take click here for a guide to specially commissioned bespoke aerial photography prices. With commissioned work I can take close up images to your specific directions often focusing on just a single building. I am now on the treadmill of digital photography with regularly updated DSLR cameras so commissioned work will always be on the latest and greatest camera. Currently I seem to be buying a Digital DSLR camera body every year or two. Most photographs for 2005 were done on the Canon 20D which I have had specially set up by Canons technical people to optimize image resolution for aerial photography. New images and commission work for 2006 & 2007 were  done on a Canon 5D (those with aa or ba reference numbers) and 2008 to 2010 were on the 21 Megapixel Canon 1DS mkIII. More important than the camera are the lenses and I have the very best lenses money can buy. There is more info on my equipment page ( click here ) . If shooting a close up / long lens shot its quite amazing what will show up. Here are some full sized samplesto show the detail (from the newer images ).

Long lens sample (St Micheals Church) ( from 2006)

Very Long lens sample (Sunday Market)

There are also two full sized samples on the St Patricks Day Parade gallery above. If your computer struggles with the large images, here is a zoom in section of one of the very long lens images;

 

I would also like to take the opertunity to give a big thank you to the Birmingham air traffic controlers who were very very very helpfull in the making of these images ! :o)

 

All the aerial photos in the Webb Aviation aerial photo library are available as high resolution digi files for uses such as publishing, legal use or planning applications, click here for information and prices of digital files and reproducing these images.