RTF Photo and video - Subject suggestions invited!

Breaking news - new competition announced!

@group-challenges

The Autumn 2022 RTF season starts on September 11th. These are the subjects that got fed into the Randomizerā„¢:

1960ā€™s architecture
360 pano
400 feet directly below
A lone tree
A Small Village with a church
Abandoned building
Abstract
Action
After Rain
Agriculture
Arid
Art for Artā€™s Sake
As seen on TV
Autumn Colours
Autumn*
Battle re-enactment
Black and White
Blue
Boat wreck
Boats with engines
Breweries
Bridges
British Heritage
Canals
Castles
Chimneys
Churches
Cinematic landscape
Circle
City Skylines
Cityscape
Cliff edge
Cliff Face
Clock Tower
Colours
Construction
Contrasts in nature
Council house
Cranes
Crops
Crowded (but not people!)
Curves
Demolition
Derelict
Different/Unusual perspectives
Emergency vehicle with blue lights lit.
Estates
Fairs & Fetes
Farm machinery in motion
Ferris wheel
Fireworks
Follyā€™s
From underneath
Fun Fairs
Golden hour
Golf course
Gothic
Graffiti
Harbours
Harvest*
Heavy Haulage
Heavy metal
Hereā€™s looking at you (Drone from drone)
Heritage railway
History
Holes
ICM (intentional camera movement)
Indoors
Industry
Iron Age/Roman Forts
Isolation
Jet Skis
Lakes
Landscapes
Landscapes without Buildings
Lavender fields*
Life boat / craft
Light
Light Trails
Lighthouse
Lights
Long exposure (night)
Marinas
Mazes
Military Sites WW1
Military Sites WW2
Monochrome landscape
Monument
Motorway services
Motor Sport
Movie Titles
Moving vehicles
Moving Water
Murals
National Trust properties
Nature
Nightshots
Non League football ground
One colour only
Outdoor swimming pool
Oval
Patterns
Patterns in the Landscape
Picnic
Piers
Places of worship
Portraits
Ports
Prehistoric
Public Transport
Railway Architecture
Red
Religious retreat
Repurposed
Rescue
Reservoir
Rivers
Roads
Rocks
Rooftops
Roundabout at dusk
Seascapes
Shadows
Shiny
Song Titles
Sports Grounds
Spring*
Square
Stadia
Still Water
Straight Down
Straight Lines
Summer*
Sunflowers*
Sunrise/Sunset
Symmetry
Tall chimney
Tallest
Tilt Shift
traffic
Trains/Trams
Trees
Trig Point
Tunnels
Ugly buildings
Victorian engineering
Vessels
Was a cinema.
Water Tower
Water
Waterfalls
Weight
Weird and wonderful traffic islands!
White Lines
Windmill
Winter*
Xmas lights*
(Subjects with asterisks are seasonal)

And, once the Randomizerā„¢ had processed the punch cards these appeared on the teletype:

Golden Hour
Cityscape
Picnic

Vote for your favourite!

If you want to add to the subject list please post suggestions in this thread

Subject suggestion:

Low down (taken with the drone below 5m AGL)

:smiling_imp:

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Great idea Joe,wonder how many entries weā€™d get that are over 5m :joy:

Hereā€™s a subject maybe

Be it high or be it low
Be it far or be it so ( near )

Idea is, to take your drone where ā€œ you ā€œ physically canā€™t get too, obviously, VLOS & height will always apply, to capture subject or subjects.

As the tittle says, so that maybe, below ground level, above ground level, far out or close by, too capture basically what is not possible on foot, or for better words only possible with a drone.
Just a thought, :smiley:

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[quote=ā€œKirky, post:105, topic:35641ā€] too capture basically what is not possible on foot
[/quote]

So what youā€™re saying is, a photo took by a drone? :heart_eyes:

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:joy: yes

Sorry, I was meant to say what is only possible with a drone, if that makes sense.

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On a knifes edge is probably a good witty name for the type of subject youā€™re thinking off maybe?

Cliff edge type of thing? Might already be there. Check the spreadsheet.

Exactly why I got a drone, to get a camera in to places I couldnā€™t get to.

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Well Iā€™m being mutual & straight down the middle here,
I know some are happy too do there shots that way, others do it this way etc, so I thought maybe to try & calm the eye-line debate down ( on certain subjects ) basically if your shot ( subject ) means your drone going over a wall, or below the level of ground your on, or up threw the trees & bushes etc etc, maybe for that shot the eye-line may not be used, example,
I have crappy picture / pictures here, from when we was doing the RTF CANALS, when I was there it was well over grown & I couldnā€™t get on it but it looked lovely in the flesh, I spent ten - fifteen mins going up threw the trees too get ten feet high, which was nerve racking, too get some shots but as said they looked crap, but when I lowered the drone below feet level in the dried out canal they looked great, so as nice as they looked I didnā€™t use them, because of the whole eye-line thing, Iā€™m not saying it should be scrapped by no means, what I mean is in certain circumstances on a picture / subject you really want, the eye-line thing can we be given grace or not used, to get the picture you really want, but maybe with evidence as to why & what, just a thought,

Thatā€™s why I thought

Gives us all a chance to get some pictures with our drones that maybe we usually over look or donā€™t do because of the rules, kinda gives us a break from it but, I understand drone photography should look like it come from a drone 100%, otherwise if we all started shooting down low, it would be rubbish, again just a mutual thought or couple of ideas, too try & keep us all happy, :+1:t2:

:point_up:t2: there you go, that could easily be a subject.

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Subject suggestion : Statues

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Zigzags
Letters
Gardens
Superstitions

Clocks
Rails

Steps & stairs :smiley:

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Golf courses :golfing_man: :golf:

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A bird in flight Hard to get I know!

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@group-challenges

Modified list of potential RTF subjects:

1960ā€™s architecture
360 pano
400 feet directly below
A lone tree
A Small Village with a church
Abandoned building
Abstract
Action
After Rain
Agriculture
Arid
Art Deco
Art for Artā€™s Sake
As seen on TV
Autumn Colours
Autumn*
Battle re-enactment
Black and White
Blue
Boat wreck
Boats with engines
Breweries
Bridges
British Heritage
Canals
Castles
Chimneys
Churches
Cinematic landscape
Circle
City Skylines
Cityscape
Cliff edge
Cliff Face
Clock Tower
Clocks
Colours
Construction
Contrasts in nature
Council house
Cranes
Crops
Crowded (but not people!)
Curves
Demolition
Derelict
Different/Unusual perspectives
Emergency vehicle with blue lights lit.
Estates
Fairs & Fetes
Farm machinery in motion
Ferris wheel
Fireworks
Follyā€™s
From underneath
Fun Fairs
Gardens
Golden hour
Golf course
Gothic
Graffiti
Harbours
Harvest*
Heavy Haulage
Heavy metal
Hereā€™s looking at you (Drone from drone)
Heritage railway
History
Holes
ICM (intentional camera movement)
Indoors
Industry
Iron Age/Roman Forts
Isolation
Jet Skis
Lakes
Landscapes
Landscapes without Buildings
Lavender fields*
Letters
Life boat / craft
Light
Light Trails
Lighthouse
Lights
Long exposure (night)
Marinas
Mazes
Military Sites WW1
Military Sites WW2
Monochrome landscape
Monument
Motorway services
Motor Sport
Movie Titles
Moving vehicles
Moving Water
Murals
National Trust properties
Nature
Nightshots
Non League football ground
One colour only
Only by drone
Outdoor swimming pool
Oval
Patterns
Patterns in the Landscape
Picnic
Piers
Places of worship
Portraits
Ports
Prehistoric
Public Transport
Rails
Railway Architecture
Red
Religious retreat
Repurposed
Rescue
Reservoir
Rivers
Roads
Rocks
Rooftops
Roundabout at dusk
Seascapes
Shadows
Shiny
Song Titles
Sports Grounds
Spring*
Square
Stadia
Statues
Steps & stairs
Still Water
Straight Down
Straight Lines
Summer*
Sunflowers*
Sunrise/Sunset
Superstitions
Symmetry
Tall chimney
Tallest
Tilt Shift
traffic
Trains/Trams
Trees
Trig Point
Tunnels
Ugly buildings
Victorian engineering
Vessels
Was a cinema.
Water Tower
Water
Waterfalls
Weight
Weird and wonderful traffic islands!
White Lines
Windmill
Winter*
Xmas lights*
Zigzags

(Subjects with asterisks are seasonal)

Only by drone
Statues
Zigzags
Letters
Gardens
Superstitions
Clocks
Rails
Steps & stairs

@Drumsagard - Golf courses. There is already a golf course entry John but thanks for the suggestion - keep 'em coming :slight_smile:

@D0c.Col - a bird in flight.We have considered this one but will reject it on a couple of counts. The chief reason is that in order to get a reasonable size of image the aircraft will have to approach the bird quite closely. To a third party that may well look as if the pilot is deliberately harassing the bird and may well cause problems with adverse publicity for pilot and hobby alike.

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Re bird in flight. I agree, that sadly, would be the public perception, and therefore isnā€™t worth the risk butā€¦
The photos of Red Kites that Iā€™ve got with the drone have, every time, involved the bird coming to look at a stationary hovering drone!
With my rc gliders they allow me to share their thermals and we follow each other round and round until they get bored, or my neck starts to ache!

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