{"id":11944,"date":"2015-06-16T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/?p=11944"},"modified":"2015-06-16T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T04:29:11","slug":"up-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/up-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in the air!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11945\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DJI_0005-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DJI_0005-copy-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DJI_0005-copy-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DJI_0005-copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DJI_0005-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Homestead, Hill Road, Manurewa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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 &#8230; but again pretty windy so we didn&#8217;t really get much time in the air. Just long enough to get a shot of the homestead. \u00a0Looking at some footage of a tree we realised just how windy it was that little bit higher off the ground. \u00a0Nevertheless the gimbal provided pretty good stable images which was impressive. \u00a0Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/up-in-the-air\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Up in the air!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[11],"tags":[276,278,293,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11946,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions\/11946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nzcjs.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}