With the fantastic run of weather, I had a great session at Culham Reach on the Thames south of Abingdon on Thursday 13th Jan with the horizon clear through sunset instead of the usual haze. I’m a keen landscape photographer, and enjoying a whole new world opening up from a few hundred feet. I finally get to see it from a red kite’s point of view. I fly a paraglider, and sometimes get aerials, but this is a lot more reliable! Loving the DJI Air 2S, my first drone. It’s fun and easy to fly. It’s a powerful camera platform and the Raws edit well in Lightroom Classic. All edited Raws except the wide angle pano.
Wide angle pano with light editing on the stitched JPG, sky cropped
Very kind, thanks @Xpro2. I was all set to get the Mavic 3 having Olympus M4/3 gear, but as a new pilot, the Air 2S seemed a safer bet until that’s sorted. Very pleased with it as a camera. I had to swap the first one, but this is just a little soft at the edges, nice and even, as you’d expect from a 22mm equivalent 1" sensor. Brilliant size for fitting in the camera bag too.
Indeed @Datmandan, just working on a couple of 360 panos taken the same day. The stitching on one has the odd glitch, but all the rest I’ve done seemed perfect, some in strongish winds. Staggering technology that stitches 26 shots of varying exposure in the air in a few seconds. I find the stitched JPG only needs light editing. I tried stitching the 26 Raws in Lightroom Classic on another one, but my poor old PC gave up.
@Datmandan I like the wide angle panos, 3x3. Point the gimbal below the horizon to avoid too much sky. For panos generally, I underexpose by 0.3 to preserve the highlights a bit, then do light editing in Lightroom Classic.
No two bulletin boards the same! It’s not normally that easy. Excellent!