Drone pics and vids

[Ronnie]

Flying a drone to take video and pics of boats underway is challenging but the hard / time consuming part is editing the videos.

 

[tabbibus]

Lola's first flight over the water

 

[ToddW850]

My hometown, Destin, Florida. Last 2 pics are Crab Island. DJI Mavic Pro

 

[tabbibus]

My hometown, Destin, Florida. Last 2 pics are Crab Island. DJI Mavic Pro

View attachment 186896
View attachment 186895

View attachment 186894

I love the "hovering" boat pic. Awesome

 

[ImHowl]

Got my mini 3 pro about 2 months ago. I love it!
There is a setting on the remote to change the home point to the controller. You cannot set this setting until the drone has taken off for some reason, so be careful.
Follow mode works great. I used it to follow the boat while tubing and the footage looks good. Its nice to set it up and go, and not have to fly and drive the boat at the same time.

 

[tabbibus]

Got my mini 3 pro about 2 months ago. I love it!
There is a setting on the remote to change the home point to the controller. You cannot set this setting until the drone has taken off for some reason, so be careful.
Follow mode works great. I used it to follow the boat while tubing and the footage looks good. Its nice to set it up and go, and not have to fly and drive the boat at the same time.View attachment 186947

How did you land? I landed on the front sun pad bit it wasn't easy. The drone was not convinced it was a landable area.

 

[suke]

How did you land? I landed on the front sun pad bit it wasn't easy. The drone was not convinced it was a landable area.

I grabbed mine. Oh boy did it not like that and went full power while I held on trying to figure out WTF to do to make it chill out. LOL! Finally in my panicked state I pushed the down button and it "landed" in my hand.

 

[tabbibus]

I grabbed mine. Oh boy did it not like that and went full power while I held on trying to figure out WTF to do to make it chill out. LOL! Finally in my panicked state I pushed the down button and it "landed" in my hand.

Lol. If I reach for mine the mother effer actually moved away from me. Also if you point both joysticks inward and down it acts as emergency shut off

 

[spatty99]

One of the better drone YouTubers (don't recall which one) advises to...
let the drone hover (don't try to fly it into your hand, as the obstacle avoidance will kick in), then reach up to grab it from underneath and then quickly turn it upside down (which automatically shuts down the props).

 

[ImHowl]

How did you land? I landed on the front sun pad bit it wasn't easy. The drone was not convinced it was a landable area.

I grab it out of the sky.
If you grab it and immediately rotate it upside down it will shut off.
The downward sensors will make it fly away from you as you reach for it. Once I get it in close, I turn it into sport mode which turns off all the sensors, and feather the joysticks as needed to get it closer so I can snatch it out of the sky.

 

[tabbibus]

Didn't think of sport mode. Awesome

 

[suke]

One of the better drone YouTubers (don't recall which one) advises to...
let the drone hover (don't try to fly it into your hand, as the obstacle avoidance will kick in), then reach up to grab it from underneath and then quickly turn it upside down (which automatically shuts down the props).

This is how I snatched mine, but didn't know the turn over trick. So the bugger tried to lift me off with it.

 

[Dixemon]

Drone flying and boating is exhilarating but I learned the hard way and bought a float system. Will save you a lot of grief.

Also if flying DJI the Home Point needs to be constantly updating to the location of the receiver or else it will return to the location where it launched from and if you are no longer there then it goes in the drink.

View attachment 186442

Been quite sometime since seeing chinaman hat and K bay!

 

[tabbibus]

Drone footage at the halfway point of the video.

 

[Ronnie]

Drone footage at the halfway point of the video.

Nice. Was the drone footage taken with auto track / follow functionality? Looks like you had the almost the entire lake to yourself.

 

[zpaul]

Mini2

 

[tabbibus]

Nice. Was the drone footage taken with auto track / follow functionality? Looks like you had the almost the entire lake to yourself.

No, my wife was driving the boat, I was manually following. Yeah, it wasn't full at all fortunately. We don't tow when it is busy

 

[tabbibus]

Mini2
View attachment 207486
View attachment 207487
View attachment 207488

where is this? Very pretty

 

[Ronnie]

No, my wife was driving the boat, I was manually following. Yeah, it wasn't full at all fortunately. We don't tow when it is busy

You have skills Tabbius. If you would have said that was a built in filming feature I would go out and buy the same drone before next season. My phantoms, mavic and spark could not keep the subject in frame at such close range. I am still hoping a newer drone can or that such functionality is included soon.

 

[tabbibus]

You have skills Tabbius. If you would have said that was a built in filming feature I would go out and buy the same drone before next season. My phantoms, mavic and spark could not keep the subject in frame at such close range. I am still hoping a newer drone can or that such functionality is included soon.

I may have more editing skills than flying skills! The close close-ups are zoomed in post. I'll try a close autofollow the next time I'm out there.