A large castle, Schloss Wenrigerode, filmed with the Mavic

[TheWire]

I recently went to Germany for business and brought my Mavic with. I love castles and I was impressed by the video I was able to capture with the Mavic. I'd appreciate any feedback on how I might improve my filming or editing in the future.

 

[BorisTheSpider]

Very nice, if I had one suggestion it would be to say that the earlier scenes where the trees are a little underexposed show quite a bit of loss of fine detail and I suspect you were using negative or zero sharpening - using sharpening +1 prevents it, at the cost of video that looks a bit over sharpened however that's reasonably easy to correct in post whereas once the detail is lost it's gone.

 

[JoostGT3]

Lovely movie, good subject and nice light. Also editing is nice!
However, like Boris mentioned, first couple of shots seem out of focus or 0/-1 sharpness. Other than that: NICE!

 

[frankiez]

I am going there for 2 weeks in May. Did u find it hard to fly, i.e. Was there people giving you a hard time?

 

[4wd]

Several of the more spectacular castles have imposed their own no-fly zones - with good reason as there have been incidents of drones crashing and falling into courtyards which are often quite busy with visitors.
You'll probably be OK from a sensible distance.
Someone from Germany might have a link to those with bans.
Not sure if the bans are all fully legal but plainly best not to flout.

 

[Fedya]

What to improve? All the cool!

 

[TheWire]

I knew there were some restrictions on certain castles in Germany. I looked into it and could not find any restrictions on Schloss Wernigerode. However, to not fly over people, I flew shortly after sunrise and well before the castle opened. The main reason I flew over the castle was to set the center of the POI for the rotational flying. I might look into other ways of POI center, then I could get awesome video with staying 100+ feet from the building.
I also flew along the Amalfi coast and Tuscany in Italy. Again, I made the effort to not fly over people. I read the drone rules for each country I visit & carry a copy with me in English and the native language. I haven't been questioned on my flying, but I do avoid trying to attract attention.