Recent content by Clive Copeman

Thanks, full circle yaw in sport mode will do nicely for now... but roll... that would really be something!

As far as I can tell, ICM (Intentional camera movement) photography is hugely popular with DSLR owners but has been largely ignored by drone photographers. It's a useful tool for creating abstract images, but most abstract drone photography seems to be beautiful birds eye landscapes. So I...

Update: DJI support says the setting has been removed from the Mavic 3 line... but I'm no clearer. Can anyone with a Mavic 3 try taking a long exposure looking down while spinning for me? You should hopefully be able to produce a circular blur, or a nice spiral if you ascend/descend at the...

Rocks and surf at a local beach.

I use this setting on my M2Pro to get my long exposure motion blur shots. Can anyone with the M3Pro tell me if it has the same option? Stills camera settings menu. Example of what I use it for:

Knowing that strong ND filters are available now makes the M3P so tempting! Tell me, does it have the same 'unlock gimbal during shooting' feature as the M2Pro? This is the kind of shot I like to make with my NDs.

There is, but rather than zooming with the lens, you must move the drone during the exposure. Down, forwards, sideways, all yield interesting results.

Apologies Brett, the unlock gimbal feature works after all, I mustn't have done it correctly the first time. Many thanks for your suggestion. Having conquered it in my back yard, I look forward to practicing the technique in my favourite beauty spots!

Yaw works fine in video, just a spinning shot, which I use a bit in my commercial work already. Sideways flight gives a good blur in a still image as does descending looking down or forward flight. Nice contrasty scenes and objects at differing depth look best. The difference you see with ICM...

Thanks. Tried turning that off but the drone still wouldn't spin during an exposure. I'm definitely getting exposures of >1". Closest I've got is a tiny bit of spin either at the very end or beginning of the exposure. Looks like as soon as the exposure starts, the bird locks up in an attempt to...

I'm working with long exposure and intentional camera movement. Zoom effects are easy but I can't get my M2P to spin during an exposure. So far it locks orientation, which makes sense if you only want sharp images. Does anyone know how to get the M2P to expose during rotational flight?