NEW YORK BLACKED-OUT PHOTO

The latest Cover of New York Magazine featured the stunning aerial photograph of a blacked-out Manhattan. This shot is taken by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan, after the storm Sandy.

But most fascinating is the story behind the photograph. Iwan explains in a interview with New York Magazine how hard it was to get this shot. At first he had to get out of the city and find a helicopter, but most were already out of gas or power or on a rescue mission. But than he had to shoot from a moving helicopter with very little light..

But it worked he finally got that awesome shot!

“It’s quite difficult to shoot from a moving helicopter even during the day because of the vibrations,” he said. “It was super dark so I had to shoot with a long shutter time, and I could only do it because I had just gotten the newest Canon” —a 1D X with a 24-70mm lens — “which is more sensitive. I shot between 2,000 and 2,500 shots — 80 percent of the shots are a blur, 10 percent are maybe useable, and 1 percent were really sharp.”