Most over-used, useless camera angle ever

[Beef03]

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?

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

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?

 

[User 1019]

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

 

[Clever username]

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.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

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 agree

 

[Write-brained]

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

 

[Clever username]

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

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

 

[Boom_70]

You effing blimp.

 

[dawgpounddiehard]

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

 

[ondeadline]

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.

 

[Ace]

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

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.