Really busy yesterday and didn’t manage to finish work until after midnight … then up at 4am this morning to head out to a rather special place. A two hour drive from my home led me to this rather lovely part of the country with million dollar views. This particular shot is from my drone. Seven images stitched together in PTGui Pro and then sharpened etc. in Photoshop. The sun was VERY bright to the right of the image, and if you look carefully you might be able to pick out the moon in the upper top left corner of the image. Glorious day here in Godzone today … even when you don’t have much sleep!
Up in the air!
Rather a lovely day today here in Godzone and a chance to get out with the drone. It is becoming increasingly apparent that a common language and a predefined plan are essential to get reasonable footage when shooting video. Filling out the storyboards and planning the shots beforehand are not really optional.
I popped out to Barry Curtis Park first thing with my daughter just to play with the controls and get familiar with the responsiveness of the craft. It was a bit windy which didn’t help, but we had a heap of fun all the same. Later in the day a few shots up at Nathan Homestead with my son … but again pretty windy so we didn’t really get much time in the air. Just long enough to get a shot of the homestead. Looking at some footage of a tree we realised just how windy it was that little bit higher off the ground. Nevertheless the gimbal provided pretty good stable images which was impressive. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.