I use the scroll wheel to get my shots, and there *are* a lot of unintended crashes into things, especially at first. But it's a skill like anything else, and practice makes perfect.
I got the flying shot of Starina in this collage in KR. The flying shots of Gyrfalcon Prime in this collage were taken in Steel.
To get building shots in FF, you could always team up with someone as a sidekick in order to survive the experience. (Especially sharpshooters.) I have high enough level flying toons on Guardian and Virtue if you need help.
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Very nice, the Gyrfalcon pictures are much closer for what I'm aiming for...
I wish I had a high enough toon on virtue, the version of pigion I have there is to low however...don't even have hover yet....
Well I'll give it a shot, thank you for the advice...
Now to turn this thread into something a little more interesting...
I invite everyone to post all your flying, or aerial related screen shots here....
Show the groundpounders what it's like to live in the clouds!
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.
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Moonset over Paragon with Gyrfalcon Prime
Fwoosh!
Triptych (Air Force, Gyrfalcon Prime, Photon X)
I think those are the kind of shots you're after.
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Yup...that's about what I'm going for...
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.
Can't you use the Fly poses with Hover? If so wouldn't it be super easy to use Hover to screenshot what you're looking for, since you move at like... 5 miles an hour?
Normally I would say yes...however I unfortunetly respeced out of hover once I got Fly, and took Air Superiority instead...and as much as I want the fly pose, I don't want to waste a respec on getting hover back when I'll never use it for anything else...
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.
Copy your character to test.
Using the "free stuff" on the test server, "purchase" (for free) a character respec. Respec into hover. Voila!
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....that's not a bad idea...thank you.
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.
I didn't want to say anything until I double-checked, but you can't use the flypose emotes with Hover, only with Fly. Sorry man.
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Doh! Oh well...guess it's back to smacking into glass windows...
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.
What server are you on and what level? Maybe I or someone else can help you get over the hump to make it into FF. 29-31 ought to make you safe enough around the periphery.
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Truimph, and level 24 currently...heh I've been focussing mostly on snagging screenshots lately and not enough time leveling....
I'll get there eventually...I just spend to much time sniffing the flowers...until they try to eat me.
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.
You CAN use fly emotes with hover.
Start flying, use emote, swap to hover. You win.
http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Massacre_Melanie -the original Fire/Dark Corruptor -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115217
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Hah! I finally got a shot I can live with here is how it will appear on the wiki page after editing.
For those who are interested here is the original which I took in King's Row after about a hundred attempts....
All editing was done with the photobucket online editor...which I found was suprisingly versatile...
Thank you to those who responded, your advice was quite helpful.
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.
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You CAN use fly emotes with hover.
Start flying, use emote, swap to hover. You win.
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Ooh, good tip, I did not know that -- and it didn't even occur to me to try it. 
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Greetings Oh Awesome Artists!
I need some advice...
I'm currently making an information page on my charecter (wiki style) and I need one more screen shot for the full effect...but this one screen shot keeps eluding me.
So I need some advice...how do you capture the epic flying poses that I've seen floating around in screenshots on the forum.
Given that the pageup button doesn't work while your flying (more over the camera resets every time I try to use it while flying...) I've been using the scroll button method to try and get the camera into the proper position.
The problem is, that when I do that, my toon has a tendancy to fly straight up into the air, or zip into scenery that I don't want as a part of the pic...or crash head first into a building. (Don't worry, thick head.)
The best I have achieved so far has been this
While I don't mind the War Wall in the back ground, I would like something a little more genaric, but every time I try to fly somewhere with scenery I either hit something...or fly to high to fast for me to get a decent close up shot.
Granted that image did provide a very cool looking heat map but it's not quite the style I want for the wiki page.
So...any advice for an avid flyer? Know any good spots to take nice city scape images? I've been mostly hanging around Steel Canyon and Galaxy City, as they have the brighter atomsphere I'm looking for. I'd love to do Founders Falls...but the only way I can go through that zone without being beaten to a pulp is with invisibilty on...and while invisibility can make for some interesting screen shots...it's not quite what I want in the way for the flying pose...
I humbly ask the art gods and photowizards for your help....
Eagles may soar, but Pigions don't get sucked into Jet engines.