This dragline is about 1.7 miles from my house. It has been abandoned for several years as witnessed by the large trees surrounding it.

this spot in the woods is about a half mile behind my house. I thought the large leafless white tree in the middle made the photo interesting.

 

When you shoot pictures from a drone do you still get all the information like is on a standard shot? Also does the drone record distance from you and from picture subject?
Drone photography is something I would have never thought about until recently looking at photo equipment and seeing all the drone ads.

Very cool way to get some really interesting pictures.


Vince

 

I was using a Mavic Pro, it has many sophisticated settings for the camera (I just use the auto setting because I am not much of a photographer). It also does 4K video. You can make all the camera setting remotely from the display screen on the control device, I use an iPad and an iPad mini with my controller. The newer models of the Mavic have even more advanced cameras. I recommend you check the DJI website,http://www.dji.com/ and ask question on this site,http://mavicpilots.com, many of those guys are professional photographers and know way more than I.

 

My house, center, taken from about 300 feet high and probably 500 to 600 feet away from the house. We'd just had a dusting of snow. Drone is a Mavic Air, camera set for 4k resolution.

The picture files include all the common camera settings as well as GPS coordinates and altitude above launch point. Distance to target isn't shown on my camera.

 

Manual modes allow shutter, f stop and iso selection. The data shows the drones distance from you (the controller) as well as height above ground level. It won't show distance to the object in the photo. Mavic has object tracking options, but it doesn't provide laser distance measuring to that object.

Shooting with the mavic is "ok" but I'd highly suggest going into cine-d or some other mode which shoots flat. Mavics tend to over sharpen and do a lot of digital fill. I've taken lots of mavic photos with varying success. These were taken in "photo mode" versus just pulling a frame from the video which I shot at 30fps. Generally, most of my "photos" out of the mavic, just come from pulling a frame from the video...simple as that. Below are photo mode specifically. No manipulation of the photos...straight out of the Mavic Pro.

 

drone photography is cool until that random bald eagle decides it's a target

 

replacing a transformer at a salt water disposal, the building was replaced a day later. (it was so cold and windy that I was getting frost bit after 5 minutes in the open)

Ft. Buford North Dakota

Ft. Buford cemetery, North Dakota

animal bridge over Highway 93 north of Wells Nevada.

South Yuba river going under I5 on west of Donner Pass in California.

Donner Lake

Taken with DJI Mavic Air

 

A soybean field behind my house during harvest.

 

Willamette Falls

Willamette Falls

Green Peter Dam

Green Peter Dam

 

So very cool.
Drone pictures are amazing.
Thanks for posting.

 

Cars found while a pond was being drained.



Movie set for Patriot's Day



Lighthouse in Rhode Island

 

A couple from my mavic mini. Always interested in a drone and this one is a good starting one. I hike often and once better at using the drone I plan to take it to places I hike to get pictures I couldnt get with my handheld camera (ie off the side of a cliff).

 

NJ Shore drone pics

 

Some nice shots in here...love drone photog...

 

Took these drone pics a week ago. This is Hartshorne park on the NJ shoreline. Along with Sandy Hook this was another line of defense.

With the looming threat of war in the late 1930s, the United States initiated a program to modernize and expand coastal defenses along the eastern and western seaboards. The Hartshorne property in the Navesink Highlands was deemed a desirable site due to its high elevation and location at the southern entrance to the New York harbor. In 1942 the US Government purchased 224 acres, and between 1942 and 1944 the Army constructed the Navesink Military Reservation as part of the Harbor Defenses of New York, headquartered at Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook. The objectives of the Harbor Defenses of New York were to deny enemy ships access to New York Bay, and to furnish heavy artillery support for defense against landings. Two batteries were constructed at the Navesink Military Reservation during World War II. Battery Lewis, the larger of the two, is a 600 foot long casemated battery, consisting of two 16 inch caliber gun emplacements connected by a corridor housing ammunition storage and power rooms. Battery Lewis is the only 16 inch gun battery in the State of New Jersey. Constructed of steel and thick reinforced concrete and covered with earth, and built upon the prototype developed by the Army for all 16 inch gun batteries, Battery Lewis was designed to withstand battleship and aerial attack. Two 16 inch Navy Mk11 M1 guns on M4 Army barbette carriages were mounted in Battery Lewis in May 1943. Originally designed for mounting on Navy battleships, the guns with their carriages weighed over 150 tons each. With barrels over 60 feet in length, they were able to fire armor-piercing projectiles 16 inches in diameter and 2100 pounds in weight. Their range reached from just offshore near Point Pleasant Beach to the east end of Long Beach, New York. For the WW II-era coastal defense program, the Army built 20 batteries with 16 inch guns and of those only 14 were actually armed. Battery 219, begun in July 1942, was fitted with a pair of 6 inch guns on barbette carriages in May 1943. A heavy cast steel shield with curved surfaces to aid in deflecting enemy fire made the guns resemble a Sherman tank.