I agree with your assessment. This is fine first effort. The scenery is gorgeous and you were able to actually get drone images of those magnificent hoodoos which would be strictly illegal in the national park (Bryce Canyon) of the same formations. However, the flying was unplanned, randomized and un-coordinated. Try to formulate a flight plan and keep to city- not a random shoot here, shoot there, yaw left and right, etc. The color grading needed some toning down of the over exposed hoodoos. The final landing needed to be edited out.
Beautiful scenery and great early effort but try to edit out any jerky motions
Great first effort! Beautiful area. Excellent length for subject. Loved the perspective shots from above.
I have a very small, picayune comment. I loved the video but at the transition from the first music to the second music, I thought that there was a bit too much delay (about 5-6 seconds) before the 2nd music started. I would have liked a smooth transition, even with some overlap as tone track fades down and the new music track fades in. Try to learn this fading of the sound technique in your editing. It is very effective.
Aghh! Something I'm having trouble with.
I really enjoyed reading all of the comments in this thread. We all come from various backgrounds, but virtually NOTHING prepares us for drone photography! We ALL need practice. From my point of view, I am a retired ophthalmologist. For 38 years before retirement, I performed intricate eye surgery with a microscope. This required binocular vision through the operating microscope, bimanual manipulation of tiny eye instruments inside the eye (cataract surgery with placement of a new lens or intraocular lens), and removal of the cataract through a 1.5 mm incision, using a vibrating needle (like a mini jack-hammer) to break apart the cloudy lens (cataract). The manipulation of the microscope (focusing, and x-y movements)using the right foot pedal, the control of vibrating needle inside of the eye (phacoemulsification) with a left foot pedal, (bi-pedal coordination) and the manipulation of both hands on instruments inside of the eye, required the simultaneous use of two eyes, two hands, and two feet!If you're an experienced RC pilot, then you have it WAY over me. I really need a lot of stick time. I can photograph, I just can't fly.
Agreed. The controls are too sensitive. And they keep changing direction, depending on which way the drone is looking!
"Locking in" is something I've been trying to learn. Getting all the various rates dialled in, then holding absolutely still and then just changing one very slowly seems to be the right idea. Thanks for that.
In my helicopter days, it was always apparent that this was a two person job. It took one guy flying the aircraft and one guy shooting the film. There was no way either of us could ever do the other guy's job. Now, I gotta.
On the Mini 2, I see that you can adjust the sensitivity of all the controls. Once it quits sn*wing here, I'm going to dial all the controls to minimum and see if that helps. Like driving, you can never be too smooth.
All that whining aside, I'm amazed at how DJI has automated so many of the flight ops. The very fact that you can easily hand launch/land is astonishing.
I haven't had so much fun in years.
Not to go too far astray but cataract surgery with implantation of the new (intraocular) lens, enjoys the highest rate of success of any other surgical procedure performed in medicine (99%).Awesome, Dale. I'll quit whining about how hard it is to fly and photograph simultaneously.
Two members of my family have had (successful) cataract surgery. It's astounding to me that such a thing is even possible.
If that’s your first attempt, you did extremely well. The first shot, the arch reveal, is an extraordinarily difficult move. I’d have required several rehearsals in the camera ship to execute that perfectly. Making that move requires that you know exactly what to do IN ADVANCE. Not possible unless you have rehearsed it.
For camera guys, one of the main goals of editing is to hide our mistakes.
Hey, thanks Karlewski! And your drone footage was Awesome! I hear what you're saying about wishing you'd done better - don't we all feel that way? I've had some sequences I'm proud of, but nothing's ever quite good enough and most of the footage will never be seen by anyone but me.
