- Joined
- May 20, 2004
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- Austin, TX
- First Name
- Rusty
- Last Name
- Myers
Week 5.
Interesting week. I had planned on shooting the supermoon/eclipse/blood moon, but I was unable to because it was cloudy. However, I did plan and practice for it. I even shot the night of the 30th to get exposure correct. It was 99.5% full at that time and for the eclipse, it was only going to be 99.7% full so I thought about just using that shot since it fulfilled my goals of being a planned shoot and I did get the supermoon. However on Sunday I got downtown in Austin with my drone and did a shot I've been wanting to do all year. Basically this has been my Plan B shot since Week 1.
It is using the auto panorama shooting mode of the DJI Mavic Pro. I tried all the types of panos, and really wanted to have a 360 degree one, but DJI doesn't have a way to export it or share it in a useful way. So this is a 21 shot panorama, stitched together in Photoshop. The drone hovers in place an rotates and moves the camera on the gimbal all by itself to take all 21 images. I pull all the shots into Lightroom, edit them to even out the exposure and other values, then send them to PS for stitching. Then back into LR to do a final edit.
If you click on the image it will take you to Smugmug and once there, if you click on the icon in the lower right with the 3 stacked boxes, you can select Original size. It is big, so don't try it on you phone cell data. The image is 13409 x 6507 pixels and 36MB in size.
Interesting week. I had planned on shooting the supermoon/eclipse/blood moon, but I was unable to because it was cloudy. However, I did plan and practice for it. I even shot the night of the 30th to get exposure correct. It was 99.5% full at that time and for the eclipse, it was only going to be 99.7% full so I thought about just using that shot since it fulfilled my goals of being a planned shoot and I did get the supermoon. However on Sunday I got downtown in Austin with my drone and did a shot I've been wanting to do all year. Basically this has been my Plan B shot since Week 1.
It is using the auto panorama shooting mode of the DJI Mavic Pro. I tried all the types of panos, and really wanted to have a 360 degree one, but DJI doesn't have a way to export it or share it in a useful way. So this is a 21 shot panorama, stitched together in Photoshop. The drone hovers in place an rotates and moves the camera on the gimbal all by itself to take all 21 images. I pull all the shots into Lightroom, edit them to even out the exposure and other values, then send them to PS for stitching. Then back into LR to do a final edit.
If you click on the image it will take you to Smugmug and once there, if you click on the icon in the lower right with the 3 stacked boxes, you can select Original size. It is big, so don't try it on you phone cell data. The image is 13409 x 6507 pixels and 36MB in size.