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Here is an unedited photo I took last year at the Grand Canyon with my Mavic 2 Pro.
Presumably hand-held and not flying?Here is an unedited View attachment 112800photo I took last year at the Grand Canyon with my Mavic 2 Pro.
Having visited the Grand Canyon myself on several occasions I would say, short of an admission by the OP, there's nothing categorical to prove his drone was actually in flight. From memory I would say it was possible when I visited to take a photograph similar to his and be quite close to the canyon's rim without being in flight, but why use a drone & not a hand-held camera? Maybe the drone was hand-held in which case nice photo. As somebody who's also taken a helicopter flight through the canyon, the last thing I'd want to encounter would be a drone. Very, very dangerous and if any one did fly a drone there it would be irresponsible in the extreme, deserving of having the book thrown at them.You realize this is a National Park? Can’t see how you could launch and be that close the rim. I realize it’s possible to launch outside of NP boundaries and over fly the park.
Currently National Parks and Wilderness areas are not allowed in the US.
Paul C
So I don't own a camera with a 1" sensor, I don't own a 3 axis stabilized held held camera at all. IAnd yet, there are people that shoot with their drones while hand holding them. There are even accessories for filming video with them (some gadget with a handle for "steady drone" footage).
One guy was posting still shots to Facebook and I said "Wait, this is a nice shot, but it looks like it's just taken from the ground".
"It is."
"What, you don't have a camera?"
It pissed him off and he went away. I've since heard of a lot of people doing it. <shrug> maybe it's the best camera they own.
What you should be asking is "why do you feel the need to mention that it's unedited, like it's a badge of honor?" I mean. we can see that it's not edited, otherwise it would look a lot better (it's rather flat and the shadows need lifting somethin' fierce).
But yeah, if it wasn't taken from the ground, then shame on you.
Chris
This shot however, would not have, and hence, likely was aerial.
But yeah, if it wasn't taken from the ground, then shame on you.
Chris
I never said you couldn't. I stated that because there is no need, the chances of being ground based were slim.Actually, you can take shots like this right from the south rim parking lot (non-aerial).
If that’s the case he was 100% successful. Although that not hard to pull off with the drone police.My impression is it was an attempt at humor....and trolling for the inevitable “OMG You Can’t Do That” comments.
Well, as long as we are "playing around" I will skip the comments about the legality of flying a drone in the Grand Canyon. I took the image and added two lightning bolts, and a bright sun with rays. I opened the shadows, increased the saturation a bit, and darkened the sky with the gradient filter. This is, of course, a totally unreal image that probably never could happen in nature, but, hey, it's a rainy day and I got rained out of my tennis game so I'm fooling around with this image instead. Please scroll see entire image. I am not going to tell you how I did this.
The image shown could have easily have been taken with any camera in my opinion.
View attachment 112800photo I took last year at the Grand Canyon with my Mavic 2 Pro.
My impression is it was an attempt at humor....and trolling for the inevitable “OMG You Can’t Do That” comments.
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That, and the file data also includes the lat/longs, as well as the elevation (2,122.7). Assuming that's in meters, it converts to 6,964 feet, which is pretty much the elevation at that location....that was funAccording to the EXIF data, it was taken with a Hasselbad L1D-20c, which is the camera part of a Mavic 2 Pro.
Wow...beautiful shot. The Grand Canyon is awesome.Here is an unedited View attachment 112800photo I took last year at the Grand Canyon with my Mavic 2 Pro.