Most over-used, useless camera angle ever

The overhead shot from the Goodyear blimp during a basketball game. I can maybe understand for a football game to get a full appreciation of what's going on inside the stadium, but otherwise it is just an outside shot of a building from above. during the day, it is usually just a big grey block. Hardly worth the dollars of putting the blimp in the sky. Can you imagine being the guy in charge of controlling that camera?

 

Is this a complaint just for the sake of having a complaint?

It sets the scene. It's used fairly infrequently. Is it really that big of a deal?

 

I'm with you, Beef. It brings nothing.

 

Sets the scene of what? Streelights, a few thousand parked cars and the roof of giant slab of concrete that is just aching to be a piece of post-modern architecture but fails miserably? Is that the scene you're talking about?

I agree with beef. Blimp shots of a closed arena are quite worthless.

 

I agree

 

It's a sponsor plug, is all it is ...

 

And there it is. It's sad and cynical but it's the almighty truth. Fuck you, money, and your useless pennies.

 

You effing blimp.

 

I liked it... it was kinda cool seeing Columbus and Nationwide Arena from that angle.

 

It's mildly interesting to see what the surroundings look like around the arena in that particular city. I know I've gone to Google Earth to see what it looks like around an arena before. Heck, there are Web sites that feature Google-map views of stadiums and arenas.

 

I think the blimp shot was useful in showing just how ugly and unimaginative Rupp Arena is. And they showed it several times.

 

Slightly off topic:
We have a photog who will angle his game shots to turn the photos onto its corners.
I got a couple of basketball photos this winter that made the players appear to playing on the side of a hill.
It was ridiculous.