Thanks! When flying out to where I started recording the sun was very bright so I waited til I got there to start and the glare was still strong. I think timing and technique are what I need to practice. I think everything wrong in all of my videos comes down to not mnowing what I am doing. Lol
Mike
Not at all. We ALL learn, mostly by trial and error. Sometimes this forum is a great help in avoiding some issues, but taking pics / vids is not really one of those. It's a hands on doing it kind of thing. After many of the same things you have been doing, it finally clicked in this old brain, with some help here as well; to fly out beyond where I want to shoot pics / vids with a bright overhead sun. Then I backtrack with the sun in the background versus foreground and don't get as much nasty glare - depending on what I'm shooting. Any reflective type surface - snow, water, etc WILL still have glare but far less that may be controllable using manual settings or like I fly with a very low ND or PL filter. Many poo poo ND's but they work for me. Maybe not for them; but when in bright sun / no cloud kind of flying - you have to use many things to achieve a good end result and an ND4 that I got with my
Air2 FlyMore does just that. I've never even taken the other 2 higher filters out of the case. A PL will certainly help on the glare side if you don't want to use an ND.
Also being higher and using a tad bit of downward camera angle also helps in keeping the sun at bay to a degree. Not a whole lot of angle unless that is what you're wanting but 2-3 dots below level can help a great deal. A small bit of digital zoom can also get in closer if you want to fly higher and not put a ton of grain into the picture / vid.
Keep flying, keep playing with the settings, and it will happen. You'll find a nice sweet spot that works about 75% of the time so stick with it or close. If you want to fly manual camera mode - on take off - pop straight up to 100 or so feet and dial in the manual settings for what looks good in view. Then off you fly and probably will get great shots at those settings. Trying to play with the settings constantly in flight can burn a lot of battery time. Easier in post to add a touch of light or darkness to get that right ambiance.
None of us photographers learned the craft overnight - takes many years / decades to finesse things to a point of maybe not a lot post processing.
