I've just recently started shooting twilight drone shots with a DJI Phantom 4. I'm shooting brackets of 5 and hand blending in lightroom/photoshop. Would love to hear some feedback on these in regards to areas of improvement. TIA
A few shots from the winter of 2025. The last one was inside of the Acropolis Museum. (Unfortunately, I could get everyone to walk exactly where I wanted them to. hahaha)
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I am interested in learning Macro/Closeup photography and understanding that Focus Bracketing is a good part of the process, I thought I would give focus stacking a try.
Another visit to our garden using a vintage lens (Canon FD 50mm f/1.4) on my Canon R5. NOTE: With this lens the minimum focusing distance is 18" at which point you have 1/4" depth of field.
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Hi Ian,
These are surperb shots. The twilight made a real difference. I have done these as well but as city scapes, overall very satisfying results .
The time frame for these shots is limited and fleeting. Your terrain is interesting, plenty of texture. (Difference btw coasts, I'm Florida.)
Question though, does the dji cam have bracketing capability?
I fly yuneek and the q500 takes a bit of doing to change exposure.
Can you describe your bracketing process for dji
further. Thanks, Florida Phil
Hi Phil, Thanks for the feedback. The DJI Phantom 4 does have built in bracketing; either 3 or 5 images per bracket. I use 3 images for daylight shots and 5 for twilights.
Pleasant shots though they dont seem that sharp to me. Some of the greens feel mushy. I guess thats just a limitation of shooting with a drone camera. U could probably boost the greens luminosity a bit as well, some of them feel too dark.
Agreed, I was shying away from sharpening to avoid introducing noise since these were taken at ISO 400 but I think it's worth it to get the image looking sharper. I also took your advice on the greens and it's a definite improvement. Thanks for the feedback.
Looks good, I think the result on the non driveway side of the house looks more natural.
I would use selective masking when you do these types of adjustments so you avoid having parts of your image that are already kind of bright from going nuclear green.