Recent content by Dale D

Daniel: Beautiful flying and filming. My favorite parts were the setting sunlit castle and golden hour type images. I did not think the music fit the film in that it had a lot of characterizations of Gaelic or old Scottish tones. Nice circle moves. However, your changing of scenes on the music...

There is a LATIN saying, in our medical malpractice law..."Res Ipsa Loquiter." The fact speaks for it self. (example, finding a sponge inside a belly, left there by an incompetent surgeon, causing severe medical harm to the patient). The fact speaks for itself. No further proof is needed. The...

You live in such a nice little village! I am wondering and fearful about that big chimney spewing copious amounts of white smoke so close to the village. Is it a power plant. Are there lots of cases of COPD or other pulmonary problems?

I have been shooting all panos vertically for a long time. Even hand held without a tripod. You have the advantage of more foreground, and more sky but you have to compensate for the high dynamic range from the sky to the foreground which is very easy with today's masking tools in...

I used a grid. I did 30% overlaps manually, which required 15 images. Mavic 3 at f/2.8 , Exposure was ISO 500, 1/13th shutter. I cannot recall if I used Topaz De Noise AI. Dale

Here is a sunset shot of 15 image pano of Miami. (I have previously submitted this, but it seems to be useful for this posting). This was shot manually with 30% overlap and processed in Photoshop . I almost never use the automated image from the drone. I only focused the first shot. (click on...

GF: See this clip starting 9:06-9:13. I hit that tree but recovered and completed the circle. The trees were on a hill. https://vimeo.com/1100744803?fl=pl&fe=sh Dale

I read your report in detail twice! BRAVO! Why? Because I have booked a private landscape photography tour of 8 days in the Dolomites in September ,2026 and I have literally gone crazy trying to register for D Fight. I have given up. My guide (Alessandro) is an experienced drone pilot and he...

I do all of my panoramas manually. I use the grid, and overlap by 30% for each shot for a total of shots needed to cover 180 degrees. E.g.: I shoot each image manually, and therefore, I can tap the screen to focus before each shot. To process, I also do it manually in either Photoshop or...

???Saran wrap? (carefully applied to be taut over the front lens)

I had already reported on this in a previous post Dec. 1,2025. Only got 5 replies. It's great to see US manufacturing getting into the consumer drone business. Dale

Dear GFields: I am going to answer this before seeing the other comments so I am not influenced by others who commented already. This same exact thing happened to me while on a trip to Poland to visit castles. I designed a huge automated circle orbit around the castle, not accounting for the...

Maybe not so off topic because we have all been threatened by anti drone people at one time or another, but “Busybody” would be a good non sexist word to substitute.

I did my due dilligence in setting a price and came up with $1,000.00 +shipping, but then reduced the price first to $980.00 then to $960.00 where I have decided that is a fixed and final price. If I sell it, fine, if I don't , I can afford to keep as a back up in view of the DJI ban. I...

Yes- Andrew, Aug. 16.1992. We lost 2/3rds of our roof and had an $90K claim. We were out of AC in hot, humid south Fla. temperatures for 3 weeks before we got our power back. We are still in that house.