Have you ever been in that moment when you’ve composed the scene just how you wanted, you’ve nailed your focus, you’ve placed your grad perfectly to balance the exposure and you’re about to take the photograph when you’re interrupted by someone telling you that you’re not allowed to use a tripod at the location?
Feeling holiday or travel blues? Looking for some wanderlust motivation for your next adventure? Check out this inspirational video!
This is a really good idea, and as far as I know it's an original one. The folks at Skylum, who have given us the Luminar and Aurora image editors, are today offering AirMagic, a Mac or PC app designed to apply AI (artificial intelligence) to any drone or aerial-based image you drop into the app, either a single image or a bunch of images.
With the image quality from drones being higher than ever, it's a great time to consider including one in your wedding workflow. This awesome video will give you 12 helpful tips to get the best shots you can when using a drone at a wedding.
Drones are both more affordable and more capable than ever, and because of that, with a bit of practice, you can create awesome footage that will wow your clients. This great video will show you 20 essential drone shots to help you create the best footage you can.
Here is a beautiful and original 360-degree video filmed from a racing drone over the cliff and mountains of Europe.
Racing drones are capable of recording unique footage. In this video, drone pilot Bobesh Oz cruises along the cliff of the Atlantic coast in Portugual before heading to the snow covered summits of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.
Just a few years back, AirVuz (air-views), a very popular place to share drone videos, has started their own Annual Drone Video Awards. With over $10,000 dollars in prizes, the winners of their second annual festival were announced yesterday.
A source is being reported in British newspaper the Evening Standard to have said that the drone incident before Christmas last year that caused havoc, was actually an inside job by a disgruntled employee.
With drones becoming more and more popular, it can be challenging to find other pilots and creatives that produce good, authentic content. A few years ago, I followed Boyan Ortse on Instagram because his work stood out to me and here we are today with an awesome video he made from all the content he gathered in 2018.
Drone footage is mainstream, but when an elite racing pilot decides to edit his best footage captured all over the world, the result is amazing.
I’ve had a change of heart about how I feel about the law and operating a drone. A few months ago, I would have done a basic risk assessment and then flown, even if it was illegal. These days, I will only fly if I can operate entirely within the law. In this article, I’ll explain why.
Traveling can be a huge pain, especially when a bunch of large gear that needs to be transported from one place to another. Droneworks breaks down what his team does when he travels and gives us a few helpful tips.
As the country just broke the record of the longest government shutdown in history because of the tiny fence in the desert, a talented drone pilot located south of border elevated the question with a beautiful aerial time-lapse of the most populated city in North America.
I've personally been flying for just over three years now and have learned a lot about drones. When I look at the work done by these big drones, I think about all the more possibilities I'd have being able to operate a larger aircraft as a team.
DJI has uncovered a major financial setback, as the company recently discovered fraud cases that could total somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has developed new rules that stand to unlock all sorts of unique drone photos. Newly proposed rules from the U.S. Department of Transportation will allow flights over crowds and at night, subject to safety precautions.
Drone Multimedia is one of the largest drone accounts on Instagram today. Throughout 2018, they collected a bunch of data and feedback from the content they shared to create this list of the top 20 most influential drone pilots of the year.
Most of us had jobs as teenagers to make a bit of extra pocket money. Paper rounds and stacking shelves were the usual, but one 13-year-old has been making headlines for the past year, as he netted over $7,000 working as a drone photographer.
In 2015, Florida passed the Freedom From Unwanted Surveillance Act, which forbids police from using drones to surveil citizens. Miami Beach police seem to think they've come up with a way around that.
In a repeat of the situation at London’s Gatwick last month, Heathrow airport has ceased departures after sightings of a drone.
Echoing the drama that caused hundreds of thousands to face delays right before Christmas, the airport has closed its northern runway, while at the time of writing, the other remains open.
The airport’s Twitter account posted:
For his latest project, wakeskating pioneer Brian Grubb has managed to ride down Slovenia’s Sava Bohinjka river, being pulled solely by tech giant Infineon’s electric-powered quadcopter drone.
Cameras are often at the bleeding edge of consumer technology, and drones are often at the bleeding edge of that. Typically, such technology gets associated with younger people, but this 100-year-old can't help but smile when she takes a drone for a spin.
With the new year in play, you only have so much more time to submit to the fifthth annual New York City Drone Film Festival.
I have just seen a video reviewing one of the coolest drone accessories I've ever seen. I'm not sure how it isn't a standard accessory included in the box of every drone sold.
So, it's cold, windy, and snowing outside. What are you supposed to do with that fancy drone of yours? Considering it's hard to fly most drones inside, DRL Simulator is game for PC or MAC that you can use to practice flying.
After an intense drone-chasing week at UK’s second busiest airport, the couple arrested a few days ago is no longer suspected, and the police unit leading the investigation has cast doubt on "genuine drone activity."
The holidays are a time where many photographers take a few weeks off to either be with family or relocate for vacation. Most of us who are not videographers shy away from the idea of recording the time simply because we fear it will look amateur. A few tips will help make your vacation and time with family more impressive than you thought it could be.
The second busiest airport in the United Kingdom remains shut down early Thursday morning after all flights were halted due to reports of two drones flying above the airfield.
This article reflects an ongoing event and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Many drone collisions or near misses with passenger jets have been reported in the past, but so far, all those cases were dismissed after serious investigation. The latest speculation reports that a drone slammed into a Mexican airliner two days ago.
A few years back, Lume Cube hit the market with a very small, bright LED light that is close to the size of a GoPro Hero 5 Session. These little lights have built a name for themselves over time and are now available for the Mavic 2.
In this newly released video, London-based photographer and film director Oliver Astrologo decided to test out the effects of attaching an LED light to a spinning drone.
Footage posted online shows the bizarre moment a helicopter was enlisted to knock a drone out of the sky, after it was flying unauthorised during a surfing event in Hawaii.
The recent Camp Fire was the deadliest in California history and the fifth deadliest in the history of the United States. This eerie drone footage shows how the smoke enveloped San Francisco.
There is no doubt that Iceland has become an incredibly popular travel destination for photographers and filmmakers in recent years. One filmmaker has taken his footage to the next level to create a stunning Iceland short film.
Vantage Robotics’ small, 4K-capable Snap drone has some unique safety features that enable it to earn what will be the first certification of its kind from the FAA to fly over crowds of people for both emergency and non-emergency purposes.
Have you ever gone to the top of a mountain covered by a glacier during the night to fly a drone? That is just one of the personal projects by Ozzo Photography. Here, you can read an interview and see how the fantastic experience turned out.
After reading an article from a fellow Fstoppers writer on following the herd, I realized the power one person actually has when it comes to sharing a photo. Here is my story on discovering a location that doesn’t exist.
For the past three years I've been flying, I found the only way to really advance my skills with the drone is to go out and actually fly. Sometimes, it's tough to get out there every day for whatever reason, which is where I see the simulator becoming very beneficial for pilots looking to increase their skill level.
Drones are common these days, anybody can purchase one and get in the air in five minutes. But a Los Angeles based photographer decided to take a step back and attach a Fujifilm Instax mini 9 camera on to his drone, here is the result.
The New York City Drone Film Festival (NYCDFF) is probably one of most important events for the aerial filmmaking community. Here is a selection of some of the best videos which have been awarded since the first edition in 2015.
"Candide Thovex Quattro 2": Extreme Sports Category Winner (2018)When a French extreme skier decides to ride snowless slopes.
You might have seen a recent video in which the University of Dayton Research Institute fired a DJI drone at an aircraft wing, causing serious structural damage. DJI called the video a "scenario inconceivable in real life" and has sent a letter to the university demanding its withdrawal.
The DJI Mavic 2 is probably one of the best portable drones to ever hit the market. Compared to the previous Mavic Pro and the Phantom 4 Pro, this drone is nothing shy of a complicated decision.
On October 5, President Trump signed the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, funding the Federal Aviation Administration through 2023. The law includes several new measures that could affect drone pilots in the U.S.
It was supposed to be a smooth operation: fly a drone over a prison to deliver drugs. Unfortunately, the brilliant minds behind this master plan crashed and left footage of themselves on the memory card.
Police in Lincolnshire, U.K. used a drone fitted with a thermal imaging camera to find a 16-year-old alleged rape victim who was unable to give her exact location.
Critics are unhappy with a new bill that has just been passed, allowing authorities to shoot down private drones. It allows the government to destroy any drone that is considered a “credible threat,” and many believe the move is “dangerous” and “doesn’t include enough safeguards.”
There's a been a lot of back and forth in recent years about the risk drones pose to airplanes and the type of damage they could possibly cause if an impact were to occur, but little true research has been done. This video follows a research team that used an air cannon to fire a drone at an airplane wing to study the damage that occurred.
Flying in controlled airspace near airports requires you to submit a complex authorization to the FAA and the process may take up to 90 days to get approved. But the federal administration just granted permission to nine organizations, including DJI, to process near-real-time airspace authorizations.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Hasselblad is how expensive the gear is, and secondly, the amazing quality of the images, and what you get with the medium format sensor regarding dynamic range and the great colors images taken with the cameras they contain. But when they partnered with DJI with the Mavic Pro 2, image quality seems to be a problem.
The Mavic 2 Pro can record video in 10-bit, but this mode suffers from significant barrel distortion on the edge of the frame. DJI acknowledged the issue and created presets and values to correct this problem in Premiere Pro, Final Cu, and DaVinci Resolve.