{"id":7156,"date":"2018-07-06T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2018-07-06T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:03:38","slug":"photography-so-thats-how-they-got-that-drone-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/photography-so-thats-how-they-got-that-drone-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography: So *that&#8217;s* how they got that drone shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what\u2019s really hard? Flying steadily in one direction while smoothly sweeping the camera around to focus on a subject <em>and<\/em> maybe climbing\/descending <em>and<\/em> maybe tilting the camera? Yeah, just kidding: it\u2019s nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe now*, through the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dji.com\/intelligent-flight-modes\">Course Lock<\/a> mode &amp; with this guidance from <a href=\"https:\/\/dronefilmguide.teachable.com\/\">Drone Film Guide<\/a>, I can pull it off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5s9A2Q6EVTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pick a heading &amp; speed<\/li>\n<li>Start flying back &amp; forth along this fixed path while varying rotation\/height\/tilt<\/li>\n<li>Dial down the sensitivity of your yaw control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NewImage-5.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a second installment, Stewart goes into more detail comparing Course Lock to Tap Fly:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PknzdO5p4kc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>*\u201dNow\u201d is relative: Yesterday my luck finally ran out as I flew the Mavic into some telephone wires. At least it\u2019s not at the bottom of Bixby Canyon or Three-Mile Slough, where other power lines threatened to put it on previous (mis)adventures. (\u201cGod helps old folks &amp; fools\u2026\u201d) The drone took a hard bounce off the pavement, necessitating a service trip to reset the gimbal (which moves but now doesn\u2019t respond to control inputs), but overall it\u2019s amazingly sturdy. &#x1f4aa;&#x1f611;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5s9A2Q6EVTs\">YouTube\u00a01<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PknzdO5p4kc\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what\u2019s really hard? Flying steadily in one direction while smoothly sweeping the camera around to focus on a subject and maybe climbing\/descending and maybe tilting the camera? Yeah, just kidding: it\u2019s nearly impossible. But maybe now*, through the use of Course Lock mode &amp; with this guidance from Drone Film Guide, I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7159,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions\/7159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}