Utilizing your drone and your toes to rediscover your metropolis.
I’m a walker. I completely, definitively want exploring on foot somewhat than by automobile or public transport. However in recent times, I’ve found that combining strolling with drone pictures has utterly remodeled how I see my metropolis. Now, my drone is at all times tucked into my jacket pocket once I discover the colonial middle of Quito.
Whereas strolling provides one perspective, drones present one other complementary view
To really rediscover your metropolis you not solely should stroll to new locations, you must change your perspective. And right here comes the magic. Once I say perspective, I didn’t solely imply a bodily perspective. I imply a sentimental, social and specifically new perspective.
Adopting an Explorer’s Mindset
You must begin opening your thoughts to actually begin seeing new issues together with your eyes. Do not forget that the one factor you’ll be able to change about different individuals is the way in which you have a look at them. Effectively, that is our view now. If we select the adventurer’s spirit and put that hat over our heads, we will and can begin to rediscover our personal metropolis, once more.
Sure, it is a drone web site. And naturally we’re speaking about drones right here on this article. However, who controls the drone? Who’s that attractive human that simply took off the drone and doesn’t need to repeat the identical previous shoots in the identical previous locations? Now that we’ve established the proper mindset, let’s speak concerning the sensible points…
Don’t Want To Journey (For Now)
Sure, I do know that probably the most necessary issues for getting good, however GREAT pictures is to spend money on touring to new and thrilling locations. Additionally applies to floor videography and pictures. However what about if we not solely change our methods, however our thoughts and what we anticipate about flying in our metropolis?
As soon as we take that first step, about how open we’re to obtain new, higher, completely different pictures of our metropolis, now we have the proper mindset so we will take off and begin getting “model new” materials of our frequent locations.
Pre-Flight Preparation For City Exploration
As soon as your thoughts is prepared, get your chook prepared: do you have got sufficient batteries? Did you examine in case you can fly over the zone you’re about to stroll? Are there any type of flying restrictions? (Right here in Quito, simply in colonial downtown is situated the presidential palace so it’s not simple to fly there, but in addition not unattainable to ask for permission), so if there’s not a lot else to pack, seize your stuff and go to the place.
The Variables
What can we do in another way to rediscover our metropolis? Effectively I’m not captain Apparent to inform you to fly 400′ AGL and level the gimbal straight down. I really like nadir pictures, TRUST me, however I wager that as EVERY DRONE OPERATOR on the market, you simply burned that shot in your first 100 flights.
However one thing that I truly beloved to do is to create backlighting pictures.
To do that, it’s essential fly within the morning or the afternoon, so the solar will not be very excessive over the horizon however near it. Then you’ll be able to select a excessive constructing and fly round it whereas it covers the solar that ought to be in entrance of the digital camera of your drone, so when the drone finishes the motion the sunshine goes in direction of the drone and offers you an enormous entrance flare. That’s one thing you’ll be able to see on this two examples:
If you apply lengthy sufficient (and in case you select to colorize the pictures as a substitute of utilizing them straight from the drone) you may get a very nice opening shot for any video in your metropolis.
New Methods Up Your Sleeve
As I stated earlier than, there’s quite a lot of tips up the drone operator’s sleeve. If you happen to simply need to begin doing (and seeing) issues in another way you have got to behave in another way.
At which era do you often fly? Have you ever ever flown at 5 am? 6 am?
Seek for the golden (shortly after dawn or earlier than sundown) and the blue (simply earlier than dawn or after sundown) hour. Seek for fascinating shadows forged by buildings. Search for contrasts between previous and new structure. Do Timelapses. You realize that there’s a restrict on how excessive you’ll be able to fly a drone, however there’s no restrict on how near the bottom you are able to do it. Perhaps that can sound apparent however as I at all times inform my college students “Everybody can fly excessive however not everybody has the abilities to fly low and gradual”
And that’s one thing you must attempt too. I’m not telling you to go straight to timber and electrical poles, however attempt to fly at a canine eye’s degree. And in case you go to an enormous open discipline, and fly low, the attitude and the sensation of velocity is simply wonderful.
Bear in mind, we simply not watch with our eyes, however with our minds. Stroll round and discover out what your metropolis has for you and present it together with your drone!
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