Surfing
A Bird's-Eye View of Perfect Pipeline
Drone expert Eric Sterman shares his best visuals from the skies over the North Shore.
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Check out this drone footage of perfect Pipe
Drone master Eric Sterman brings us some of his best clips from the winter at Pipe
It was a busy winter on Hawaii's North Shore for Eric Sterman, a master of aerial cinematography. Sterman was one of the first people to see the beauty in shooting surfing from above, and his work has inspired a thriving new genre in surf media.
For one of our latest series, Hit&Run, we talked Sterman into fishing through his mountain of clips from the epic winter ton Oahu, to find a few unseen gems of Leonardo Fioravanti, Anthony Walsh and others.
Nothing captures the intensity of Pipe's wave and crowd all in one frame like a drone can, but getting that shot is not as easy as it might seem – it takes a pilot's steady hand and a photographer's keen eye. Sterman's got the skills and these 45 seconds of crisp, stunning footage prove it.