whereas from the tower it would be looking north east.
Even if you can get the resolution from a drone camera, the shot looks like someone spent quite a while lining everything up to look nice and like the historic NY pic.
> Re image quality, beyond the resolution it looks like someone spent a while getting things lined up nicely?
I don't know. There are really good drone photographers. They have remote controls for all the settings, and remote viewing is also possible. They could have lined it up with the drone. Or made the photo with even higher resolution and cropped it to perfection. Or made hundreds of photos and selected the best.
Not saying it was a drone. But the "quality looks a bit high for a drone" is not convincing me.
> given you can see the beach with a car to the left of starship and land to the right it suggests the camera was looking south west whereas from the tower you'd be looking north west.
I think you are right. Now based on that I think it was probably not photographed from the integration tower.
The reason I don't think it was shot from a fourth cherry-picker is because I can't see a fourth one in any of the photos. It seems they only had 3 up on that day and they were all in the frame.
I found a youtube of drone footage of flying around starship and I think the camera is pointing south west like this (time set to 6 seconds in)
https://youtu.be/0sA9rGc80Y4?t=6
whereas from the tower it would be looking north east.
Even if you can get the resolution from a drone camera, the shot looks like someone spent quite a while lining everything up to look nice and like the historic NY pic.