I popped over to Wales for a couple of days this week and managed to catch some shots on the sea front at Aberystwyth with my Mini 3 Pro.
^ I quite enjoy the way the camera can take three-frame vertical panoramas. The composite above was made from JPGs produced in camera.
^ Another way to look at things is to take a conventional panorama - this from four frames, merged in Lightroom.
^ Aberdovey is just a few miles up the coast, but after a bit of a detour to get there by car up the Dyfi valley
^ And you can’t beat a walk on the sands just a mile or so away from the main drag.
If you have been, thanks for looking!
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@Howard , so are the first 5, 5 separate sets of 3 stitched vertical images?
And normal dslr panos require a 30% overlap for good matching, is that needed for drone panos? And if so is there a technique to hep acheive it?
Sorry for all the questions, but I’m a complete novice with regards drone photography
Yes, that’s right. To make things easy there is a vertical panorama mode in the Mini 3 Pro that automates the process and makes a single jpg from the three exposures. (Press Shooting Mode, select Pano, and then select Vertical; the first photo in the sequence is the middle of the three.)
I took the five pictures this way and combined them afterwards.
Well done @Howard, lovely photos. I do like Aberystwyth. Not that far from my home town. It can get quite windy there, but the views make it all worth while. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot; video to follow soon, I hope!
@Rayandbar To answer the question about manual panoramas created on drones (I made the two horizontal panoramas that way), yes it is very similar to making them with a regular camera. It’s easy to control the amount of turning left or right (on the left stick) and take a sequence. I use Lightroom Classic to merge photos and a neat thing is that you can take a sequence of exposure-bracketed photos and use the Merge HDR and Panorama function to combine them all in one go.
Thanks, so much to get to grips with, I can’t wait
