If you have spent any time on the RC forums, most people say you should not fly FPV when you are using a gimbal. I completely disagree. Even when I am using my S800 one man, I still use my fat shark goggles. It does take some getting used too and you have to be careful, but you just can't beat the shots you can get with FPV!! It is really easy to setup, you just solder your video TX plug onto the video out wire and plug it in! If you need to get power to your video tx, just read my blog post about how to FPV your phantom. i drilled a hole in the side to get the video out wire and taped my video tx to one of the arms - not the most elegant solution but this puppy is meant to work not look perty. To make this video, I actually filmed from two different locations. This was the first location I flew from. After I put the goggles on I forgot how many trees were around but the video signal was still amazing somehow - thats why I took this picture. Immersion RC stuff is really good, you should use it.
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It is not aerial photography, but I went ahead and posted it here anyway. This is from the amazing Lilly Lake hike in the Rocky Mountain National Park. It is really hard to take a bad photo when everything around you is so incredible. I love Colorado in August!
I was finishing up an aerial photography shoot at an amazing upcoming Barton Creek neighborhood in Austin and I had some battery power left so I decided to shoot a panoramic. The wind was gusty and strong but I still managed to get some decent images to stitch together. Assembling them together was a little tricky because the wind was shaking the helicopter all over the place and the sun was not directly overhead so you can see the difference in light with the 180 degree turn I did. Shooting Amarra Drive has taken quite a bit of time, but it has been a great project. I have learned a lot about lighting and the best time of day to shoot. Unlike regular photography, aerial photography for real estate seems to be best with bright, unclouded light with the sun close to directly overhead or slightly behind. |
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