Another 360 pano Lake shot
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This is amazing! How high is that roughly, what was the rough wind speed at the time & what did you use to create the stitch? Would be cool to fly with you...
I did that at about 1:15pm today, I was at about 100-110m and there was about a 20k wind at most but by mid filming it was down to about 10-15km/h I imagine. I use PTGUI to do my stitches. Then I do some post tuneup and cleanup in photoshop. I just posted the video I shot with this of the area. It's still rather brown and dreary in woodstock unfortunately. so I'm looking forward to actual spring and some colour
And a tip, If you are going to take 360 pano's take off your lens hood if you use one! Boy that causes a lot of issues after (as you can see at the tops)
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Hey RKX, I don't think your flying too far away from where I am at.. bearing in mind I'm new to Canada and still don't know where everything... There is a spot I'm trying near Orangeville but I want to go to better places and try and go there during a weekday if I can have time off work as I hope there will be less people in the woods just to be safe... to be honest I am a bit scared about flying high nowadays as my last 360 pano test came out a bit warped because the wind was carrying the drone a little whilst i was doing the 360 photo it was being blown around a bit and I was lucky I didn't lose it... haven't mastered how to predict the wind yet... I did a vlog about this attached... I also been experiencing the video feed dropping out even at short range from me... This makes me feel really cautious to fly higher as the live preview freezes on occasion... I do use the lens hood sometimes so that could be an issue with why my pano stitches come out warped slightly.. It is also annoying because the pano feature is not a true 360 as the top of the shot has that blurred circle so if your flying low and want trees enveloping the shot or something dramatic it's not going to work out... I'm my opinion the only way is to fly high above everything like you did here... I'm so surprised because this seems like a seamless stitch.. Here's my video for what happened...
I also edited the stills I took into a interactive 360 video on YouTube...
Here is a link...
I also edited the stills I took into a interactive 360 video on YouTube...
Here is a link...
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(I was not aware of the 360 photo sharing site you used for that photo...)
Is your stitching app free, and on Mac OS?
Is your stitching app free, and on Mac OS?
No it's not free, it's rather pricey but it's blazing fast. I only just found the site through searching online when I wanted to post them
There is supposed to be a good free stitcher for windows or mac called hugin: Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher I've not personally tried it so I can't say how good it is or ease of use. DJI also supplies it's own software (its slow but works) : DJI Osmo - Specifications, FAQ, videos tutorials, manuals, DJI GO - DJI (media maker is the file you want) and it's available in both windows and mac os
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That's great! I actually used the drone connected to the DJI Go 4 app to render my 360 photos... It seemed like a long process and I didn't think the stitches looked perfect...
I also saw your video of this exact same location on YouTube... Did you use a mode to get such smooth panning? Maybe Tripod or Cinematic mode? Also any tips on flying in windy conditions at this height or higher?
I also saw your video of this exact same location on YouTube... Did you use a mode to get such smooth panning? Maybe Tripod or Cinematic mode? Also any tips on flying in windy conditions at this height or higher?
Ya you are about an hour or so away from where I am. DJI does say to make 260 sphere pano's in as little a wind as possible. I use a website called windy : see brampton map here: Windy as forecasted On the right there is a customizable bar to select what you want to see, I use wind, and wind gust maps, but also lower there is a slider to check the wind at diferent elevations. I don't know exactly how often the data is refreshed, so I just use it as a rough guide. Besides, everything is different depending where you are flying/standing based on what's around you.
When I first tried out the panoramas a few days ago they came out with fewer issues. Not due to wind, but I would suspect the lens hood. Today was my first day trying the new hood out. now the mavic does 30 degree upward gimbal tilts, so I know the hood gets in those shots (I had to correct them in post) it was less an issue end to end. However, when in 180 pan they really warped the ends where my first attempt a few days ago they were straight ends.
If the wind is really going you won't get a good shot, I had worried about it today, I did it anyway to see how the test came out. I did ok. aside form the lens hood issues, which I will go without for those shots now.
If your feed it dropping out check your transmission settings to make sure it's not too congested radio wave wise where you are flying.
And yes, there's no real way to do a bottoms up type shot. My first 360 it was an overcast day so I just photoshopped it to fill to top completely. but that would not work in what you are wanting to accomplish.
I like your pseudo 360 youtube vid, The site I use allows you to use images as large as 10000x5000 at 72dpi which allows about a 2x zoom in while within the viewer. I just use a quick windows powertoy to resize the full image (20000x10000 at 300dpi) and that gets an image thats about 6mb (instead of 120mb) suitable for uploading quickly
No that's all strictly me flying defaults, I don't have any modes turned on. I learned to fly drones on MJX series bugs drones (and my first of those was fully manual flying, no atti nothing, you learn a huge amount like that) with action cams strapped under them and they were jittery as hell, so I had to learn to be super precise to get even near usable footage. That transferred really well into my mavic flying (I've only have my mavic about 2 weeks now and this was I think my 5th or 6th flight) I have all the exp setting default too (no curve at all)
I had the same issue with the onboard mavic stitches and had to look elsewhere.
I'm not sure what advice to give, I find the mavic does a really good job being stable for me, I've been out in close to 60k gusts at 650 feet altitude and just flown. I know I probably could never get a usable pano in that too. The best way to get your technique down for smoothness is just monotonously slow practice.
Just keep flying, and focus on your movements first, doesn't matter what the subject is. once you have your movements down smooth then start to figure out composition and framing.
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