Can anyone point me in the direction of anything useful in terms of using the camera functions, and positioning of the drone for landscape images. The user manual has very little info. I’m not interested particularly in videography, just taking straightforward pictures. I am a fairly advanced hobby photographer who has turned to a drone as a means of extending my picture taking options.
I have watched Nigel Danson, who advocated taking a bracketed 45 shot AEB image, but have not been able to find much else. I’m off to Northumberland coast in two weeks and looking forward to all the shots i can get when not limited to my DSLR and terra firma, ( although that won’t be abandoned entirely)
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Hello @Rayandbar, I’m no expert by any means and there are many here who can offer guidance but my 2p is this link for a, IMHO, general tutorial on drone landscape photography.
There are of course many more
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@bonneville , thanks for the quick response, but i couldnt see a link. I have searched both this forum and You tube but didn’t come across anything
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Oh, works for me. Try this:
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Superb, thanks, out with the other half at thd mo will get to it later
If you only want to use the drone for photography then just try and think of it as a camera first and foremost, forget it’s a drone. As an advanced hobby photographer composition should come naturally to you. Use it on manual and adjust the shutter speed, aperture and iso yourself. If you were taking the photo on a dslr, would you really need to shoot a 45 shot AEB. I’ve never came across lighting conditions so difficult that it needed a 45 shot bracketed exposure.
It was just he took 5 sky, 5 horizon, 5 foreground, moved sideways and repeated, moved sideways and repeated. Then used Lightroom to merge as a pano which still left a decent resolution image to play with. I presume the reason for using 5 was just because he could, but presumably it helps with the merging. Maybe 3 in each position would suffice. I guess there’s quite a bit of dynamic range between the sky and the foreground when its in a valley. (It was a Lake District shot i believe)
The telephoto lens is only 12 mp i think
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Ah right, so the 45 images are not just for exposure, it’s a HDR pano
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