I frequently shoot pictures of our state capitol since I live in it and was making some new attempts at creating photos of it under the 336 rules, so that when I go to the trouble of following the SOPs for our Daylight Waiver, I would not be wasting anyone's time. Our Capitol is in Class D airspace so consequently, the Daylight Waiver has to be attached to a COA for our commercial flights at night.
I took my Inspire 2 with Zenmuse X7 and 16mm lens out and shot the first picture in raw and edited it in post. The X7 creates 40MB files and so there is plenty of data to work with. Several nights later, I took my Mavic Pro out and attempted to do basically the same shot. I had not paid attention to the altitude of the first shot so the second shot is a little higher in altitude. The largest issue in shooting with the MP was that due to the dramatically smaller size of the sensor, I would not be able to have a short enough exposure time to get a stable shot. In order to get correct exposure with one shot, it would require three seconds. At 300 feet, the MP is not going to hover in one spot long enough to get a clear shot on a mildly windy night. In order to get as clear a photo as possible, I would have to speed up the shutter which would underexpose the photo. My solution to not enough data (light) was to do two 5 shot bursts and then take all of the crisp shots and combine them in LR. The second photo is the results from this technique.
I took my Inspire 2 with Zenmuse X7 and 16mm lens out and shot the first picture in raw and edited it in post. The X7 creates 40MB files and so there is plenty of data to work with. Several nights later, I took my Mavic Pro out and attempted to do basically the same shot. I had not paid attention to the altitude of the first shot so the second shot is a little higher in altitude. The largest issue in shooting with the MP was that due to the dramatically smaller size of the sensor, I would not be able to have a short enough exposure time to get a stable shot. In order to get correct exposure with one shot, it would require three seconds. At 300 feet, the MP is not going to hover in one spot long enough to get a clear shot on a mildly windy night. In order to get as clear a photo as possible, I would have to speed up the shutter which would underexpose the photo. My solution to not enough data (light) was to do two 5 shot bursts and then take all of the crisp shots and combine them in LR. The second photo is the results from this technique.
