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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Thanks, Lisa. As I mentioned, I would like to get more pictures. It is a very difficult thing to shoot.
I don't think you have to be afraid of attacks by starlings. Raptors like eagles and hawks maybe, also seagulls, but not smaller songbirds. |
Jan 25th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
I always keep a card in the drone. Whenever I take one out I put the next one in, so I switch rather than remove it. Also, I was taught by my trip guides who first taught me to fly to always switch cards when I bring the drone down to change batteries. If the drone is lost, at least I don't lose all of the pictures (and they did lose one on our trip in Utah. They were able to recover it, and it was interesting to watch the footage of the crash!) |
Jan 25th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
I lightened the shadows and lowered the highlights in Lightroom, as I recall. I noticed the highlights on the birds didn't show up very well, but I don't really recall how I fixed it. I probably did mask the dark areas below the horizon (select sky and copy and invert mask) and increase the highlights quite a lot. |
Jan 15th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Ouch! Perhaps the birds around Greenland were not as familiar with such flying devices and didn't know to avoid it. The guys who do the red sails workshops in Greenland talk about the difficulty in getting the drone back (since the home point moves) and without getting the drone hung up in the rigging. |
Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Now you have made me curious about what kinds of birds were used in the Alfred Hitchcock movie :) I went and looked it up. Seagulls (and some mechanical birds).
I didn't have much choice. The birds were suddenly all around. I thought about bringing down the drone, but it all happened so fast, and they were suddenly not so close to the drone. |
Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
Murmurations can be pretty amazing. I remember seeing more of them when I was a kid, but apparently, the starlings are an invasive species here in North America. I guess there have been many attempts to reduce their population. |
Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Nice leading lines in the waves. I like how you processed this image, but be careful with oversaturating the sky. I wouldn't push it quite that far! |
Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Nice image, I like the crop... good that you took out the white tank and some of the water. I look forward to seeing it near sunset. If you can capture it on a calm day with a reflection, as Alex mentioned, it will be even better! |
Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Another drone image from Iceland making me wish I had a drone when I was there! Sigh! :) Ah well, next time!
It caused me to go back and look at my own ground-level images of this waterfall, and I'm not sure where we shot from (the lat/long coordinates say it was on the east side of the waterfall) but I must have been on a hill because it doesn't appear to be all that much lower than your drone shot. One thing I like about ground-level shots is that you can do a long exposure to smooth out the water. I wonder how long of an exposure you could do with the drone and still get a sharp image. It surprises me sometimes how steady the drone is, especially if it is set to tripod mode.
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Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Another great image... it makes me want to go back to Utah soon! Great job with processing in the sky, however, I think the hills are a little too saturated. I think the rock color in the original looks a little more natural. |
Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
I like both the symmetry and the color in this image. Well done!
I've gotten a bit braver about flying my drone at night recently, but it does have some issues and messages that there is not enough ambient light, so I've been hesitant about flying very far from the Home point. |
Jan 10th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Reply |
No, DJI doesn't care about the owner having a Pt 107 certificate. I really wish they would work with the FAA and allow the drone to fly with a valid LAANC approval. I'm sure they will eventually, but this might take years.
Here is a YouTube video I used that taught me how to get the unlock certificate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_pGbc9xWdw
There are a couple of gotchas, so if you decide to go through this process, I can maybe help you with those. |
Jan 5th |
| 85 |
Jan 24 |
Comment |
Don, in November I went through the process of getting an unlock certificate from DJI to be able to fly in a no-fly zone. It took a lot of work and I had to present them with a LAANC approval, but when I submitted it, it only took an hour or so for approval. I got the certificate for a week but I suppose I could have gotten it for longer. I meant to go through the process again, which I figured would go much easier since I knew what I had to do (it took 3 trips out to the location to figure out how to get it set up the first time). If you live in a no-fly zone I would highly recommend it. |
Jan 5th |
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