In this article and video, I'm going to show you Skylum's new drone specific software, AirMagic, for taking your drone photos, both JPG and DNG RAW, and quickly producing beautiful results with them. How does it work? Here's how Skylum describes it: There’s no doubt drone photos look breathtaking. You can see our world from places previously unreachable. But drone photos often lack quality. You may spend ages getting that one shot with a drone, and then you may spend even more time making it look perfect with manual editing. That’s why … [Read more...] about Using AirMagic to process your drone photos
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Quick Tip: Learning to fly a drone takes practice and a plan
To begin your practice, find an open field without tall obstacles, such as trees and buildings. If you can start practicing on a light or no wind day. As you get better, begin flying in windier conditions. Flying in windier conditions will improve your flying abilities. Check out the full article here, Becoming A Better Drone Pilot – Part 1 Fly safe and have fun! DJI Mavic Air at B&H DJI Mavic Pro at B&H DJI Mavic Pro 2 at B&H DJI Mavic Pro Zoom DJI Phantom 4 Pro at B&H BJI Inspire 2 at B&H … [Read more...] about Quick Tip: Learning to fly a drone takes practice and a plan
Getting a Drone Airspace Authorization in 60 seconds using LAANC
As an FAA Certified Part 107 pilot, if the area you want to fly in is within five miles of an airport, and that airport airspace is controlled airspace, then you will need to get an Airspace Authorization to fly there. In the past, this has required submitting a request through the FAA portal and could take from 30 to 90 days or even longer. Now, If you are lucky enough to live in an area that has the new LAANC (Low Altitude Airspace Notification Capability) system active, you can often get authorization in 30-60 seconds once you submit the … [Read more...] about Getting a Drone Airspace Authorization in 60 seconds using LAANC
Using Perfectly Clear to enhance aerial images
Editor’s Note: Perfectly Clear is offering Photofocus readers a special $99 bundle, including Perfectly Clear Complete and SharkPixel presets. A $163 value! In this video article, I'm going to show you how I use Perfectly Clear to enhance my DJI drone DNG RAW Photographs. Since Perfectly Clear doesn't yet directly support DJI DNG RAW files, you can import them into Lightroom, Capture One Pro or Photoshop and then open Perfectly Clear from there. See the links below for the best way to import them and then open Perfectly Clear. Using … [Read more...] about Using Perfectly Clear to enhance aerial images
Settings for Camera RAW and a quick look at the adjustments brush and dehaze filter
In this video, I'm going to show you how I setup Camera RAW in Photoshop so that it will open your RAW files as 16-bit objects in the Adobe RGB color space. Then we'll apply a lens correction for the lens you used. Finally, we'll take a quick look at using the dehaze tool with the adjustments brush in Camera RAW, and how to use the luminance range mask to limit the application of the dehaze filter. Watch the video Thanks for watching and I hope you found this helpful! Click here to learn more about the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography … [Read more...] about Settings for Camera RAW and a quick look at the adjustments brush and dehaze filter
Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Setting up your DJI Drone camera for video using shutter priority
In this article, I'm going to show you the basics of setting up your camera in the DJI Go 4 App to shoot video in Shutter Priority Mode using h.264 in UHD 4k Resolution. While I will be demonstrating on an Inspire 2, it will be very similar on the other DJI drone models. Shutter Priority Mode is a good place to start exploring your video. It locks down the shutter speed which can result in better-looking videos. You can find articles on setting up your drone camera for shooting photographs here: Full Auto, Aperture Priority and Full … [Read more...] about Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Setting up your DJI Drone camera for video using shutter priority
Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Color correcting DJI D-Cinelike in FCPX
This is a follow-on article to Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Setting up your DJI Drone Camera for Video Using Manual Mode and D-Cinelike. This article assumes that you set up your camera based upon that article. In this video, I show you the basics of color correction of video shot in H.264 and D-Cinelike. I will be using Final Cut Pro 10.4 (FCPX). These basics can be applied to any other editing/grading software as well. The video also assumes that you know how to get your video into FCPX and onto the timeline. Its focus is on how … [Read more...] about Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Color correcting DJI D-Cinelike in FCPX
Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Setting up your DJI Drone Camera for Video Using Manual Mode and D-Cinelike
In this article, I'm going to show you the basics of setting up your camera in DJI Go 4 App to shoot video using Manual mode and D-Cinelike. While I will be using an Inspire 2, this will be very similar to the other model DJI drones. In a future article, I will show you how to color correct them. You will find an article on using Shutter Priority with your videos here. Preparation I would suggest that you do your initial setup on the bench rather than in the field. Set your drone on a work table or bench and remove the propellers. … [Read more...] about Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Setting up your DJI Drone Camera for Video Using Manual Mode and D-Cinelike
Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Repeatable Shots using Litchi
On a commercial shoot, last month, in San Jose, I needed to do a number of repeatable shots for the director on our video project. What that means is the director has a specific shot in mind. He told me where to start, where to end and what he wanted in-between. Then we shoot the scene and he would want to redo the shot exactly the same, but with variations in speed and gimbal position. While I am able to duplicate a flight path pretty well by hand, it would be great to have an app that records the position of the drone at key points and … [Read more...] about Becoming a Better Drone Videographer: Repeatable Shots using Litchi
Becoming a Better Drone Photographer: Setting up your DJI Drone Camera in Manual Mode
In this article I show you how to setup your DJI drone camera, using the Go 4 app, in Manual Mode for shooting photographs. I will also talk about some of the settings you can change when shooting in manual mode, so you can explore and learn them. I will be using screenshots from my Inspire 2 as well as a video. Your screen may look a little different, but the basics are the same. Also, note that some drones don’t allow you to change the aperture. If Manual Mode isn't your thing, check out Full Auto Mode and Aperture Priority Mode. What is … [Read more...] about Becoming a Better Drone Photographer: Setting up your DJI Drone Camera in Manual Mode
