Boatpix

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Originally posted by HIGHLIFEII

No stopping is allowed on the Robert Moses Causeway.

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Can you walk across?
How do people ride bikes there?
 
Boatpix wants 525 for 3 pics nothing less

Im really disappointed. I really wanted them

Dave great idea about the bridge. Id love to do that
 
I got these by just having a friend take some from his boat as I drove by. Got about 200 photos from this 15 minute exercise.

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See if Boatpix will do a group excursion.
If you are alone, you are paying for the whole helicopter trip.
If 20 or so boats get together, the cost could be split between all the boats.
See if they will work a deal.
Or find an independent helicopter operator and hire him to take your photographer up for a group picture and share the cost.
 
My Boatpix shots came out great. Dave is that a Labradoodle? Looks like my dog, but i don't think was as observant of the helo as yours!
 
Yes. He is a labradoodle. He hates helicopters, kites, blimps, balloons and ducks.
 
Here is the first batch they took of me 3 years ago. See if you can find the dog in these!
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Tryimg to hide behind TV antenna in first shot and looking out of the port side rear in the second.
 
Dave, those are great shots.

To the other poster, how does somebody get a "free" helicopter and photographer. I would think somebody, somewhere, was paying for something?
 
Great pics from all..

The more I look at my pictures the more I like them. They arent the greatest shots. I think the boat looks good, except for the fact that you cant read the full boat name.

Business 101 There is no such thing as a free lunch
 
BoatPx took a bunch of shots and it seemed on the same day Yacht shots did as well.  The guys from yacht shots made me a good deal on all the pic on CD as well as a very large print

Just a few as we're turning into the Themes river?

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Originally posted by BoatCrazy

Great pics from all..

The more I look at my pictures the more I like them. They arent the greatest shots. I think the boat looks good, except for the fact that you cant read the full boat name.
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I posted this above, but you may have missed it; ask them to "Photoshop" the pic to remove the water-spray and put the name in. They can do that. I had them clean up my waterline before I bought.

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Exactly.

Hey, did my 303 suggestion ever bring back the color on that console/dash you posted about a while back?
 
Kurt i asked them to photoshop the spray and they daid they wont do more work without charging me. They told me "what do you expect, the nane is on the side of the boat". I let that comment slide

303 didnt work. I ended up using lemon oil. A few coats and worked great on the green dash on the searay
 
How does this work? Do they randomly take pictures of boats and contact you to try to sell them or do you make an appointment for them to come while you are underway?
I have never come across them or had any dealings with them.
 
Dave, if you see their chopper flying over you, they are taking your picture. You then have to go to their website and enter the info about your boat, when & where they were photographing you. You then pay for the pix and they send them to you. If you want to keep them you do, if not, you send them back and they don't charge you.

It would be a lot easier if they just posted the proofs on their site for you to preview.
 
They do it the other way because most people don't mail them back. Then they charge. You have 10 days. If they were online you would have time to show friends, hem, haw and think.
 
Just an fyi if you can get 10 people together for a group shoot you can rent a helicopter with a photographer in it to have you guys line up wherever you choose and have them get over 50+ shots of your boat each for around $200 a person. Get 20 people and you are in for $100 per person. Don't let them fool you, they are making profit after one person they send pictures to.
 
So I guess another option would be spend $2000 for 500 pictures of your boat I sure someone would do this.
 
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