Finally bought a drone !! It didn't specifically say don't fly over expensive cars

If you can find me a filter that makes the Solent look like that we're in the money :)

The video linked to earlier on in the thread was really handy in terms of orientation awareness and takes the guesswork out of flying towards yourself.

Henry :)
 
henryf said:
If you can find me a filter that makes the Solent look like that we're in the money :)
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Henry,

wont be easy to get brown water look transparent, but with the right polarising filter (wonder if they still do circular polarising ones) and careful framing on a day when the sun shines (even with clouds around) it will do wonders on the way sky and water is depicted. If you cannot go clear, go dark blue instead (similarly impressive imho)
I remember when I was up there you could get some brilliant and vibrant colours and contrasts by careful use of a polarising filter and framing.

However, pol filter works best when the line of shooting is vertical to the sun rays (and don't forget you have to "tune" as in turn it to get the maximum effect). On a v. wideangle lense typically used on all these drones you'll struggle to get smooth colours and skies as you move about. Also I doubt you'll manage nice dark blue seas if the drone is way up and the angle of attack to the ground is too steep, although sun is rather low at this time of the year so may be not that bad...

have fun

V.

PS. happy birthday, I couldn't get a drone on my 30, 40, or even 50th bday, will have to wait for my 53rd one in April to get it :p
 
henryf said:
If you can find me a filter that makes the Solent look like that we're in the money :)
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Henry you want the Levitating Boat App. (No polarising filter in this shot)

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Just one more general observation. Panning and passing objects sideways (there's probably a proper term in cinematography for this) usually causes very pronounced flickering. Image quality is best, and indeed is very good, when flying towards (or away from) the object or carefully flying an arc around it and keeping the object in the middle of the screen, thus keeping the 'action' on the screen to a minimum. As is done with the POI function.

Btw, good going with the latest vid, Henry!
 
This is a quick drone+go-pro selfie stick vid. Shot sunday afternoon (day before yesterday) in villefranche. Mix of friends and family on the boat for the afternoon. Edited quickly on the plane back to UK.

 
henryf said:
That is obscene. It just doesn't look right !

Henry :)
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I know! I love the shots where you have the boat's shadow on seabed and it appears to be levitating. So much easier to get these with a drone. My theory is that you need to separate the boat from its shadow to get the levitation look: in first pic below, my boat and the cat are touching their own shadows and are not quite levitating but the small rib between us is and my tender is. In the second pic my boat is separated from its shadow and levitating. In the third pic it isn't, and in MapisM's picture above his boat isn't (though Scubaman's pic above is a great picture, beautifully composed).
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Great video and amazing photos. It wasn't that long ago that photos like those only existed in expensive brochures and cost £20k a pop to take. How cool that technology now exists to self take. That s what memories are made of.

I've been to Villefranche a couple of times as a tourist when cruising and it brings back happy memories including a particularly poignant one of a young man no longer with us. My god we cursed him riding back up the hill in the heat of the day to get the rucksack he'd forgotten :) Then it was on to Monaco overtaking all the Ferraris & Lambos stuck in traffic.

Great stuff.

It must take quite a while to stop panicking when you can see the bottom.

Henry :)
 
MapisM said:
Now, THAT would be a fantastic water surface for a slalom course!
Not allowed, I suppose...? :rolleyes:
...mind, probably there isn't room enough for reversing, anyway.
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I once put my first boat, a Fourwinns 195 sundowner into a place called Grendon Lakes near where they build Aston Martins. We camped there over the weekend and first thing in the morning I went out for a ski on what was a sheet of glass. We warmed the boat up then set off. I can still hear the zing from the ski as it cut through the water.

Henry :)
 
Nigelpickin said:
This is starting to get expensive now....
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Beware of the marketing trap.
The drone cost is peanuts, compared to the time and cost necessary for travelling around the world and actually see all those fantastic places in the video you linked.
In this sense, I half disagree with henryf: living the moment is what make great memories, first and foremost.
Great videos and pics are just a memory enhancement (so to speak), not the real thing.
If videos and pics were enough, we could as well not move from our armchairs and save the drone/camera costs...
...there's so much great stuff already accessible with just a few mouse clicks! :)
 
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