In the weekend I took the drone out for a bit to work on the skills again. The trees are in good autumn colour at the moment and with fields being under water there is enough to see.
On thing that I do not pay enough attention to always is the factor of lighting at the end of the day and how much light you loose. Meaning every shot that was made in the weekend was ready for the trashcan instantly. But it did give good inspiration again though.
As it is dark super early by now already it was time to finish some of the last editting of the images in Greece. These are just little movies for myself as vacation memories or something and not anything flashy.
I did inspire me to take a look at some 'how to make a perfect shot' videos that Youtube has. It is funny how these short are snappy videos are the ones that explain stuff best to me. The user 'QuickAssTutorials' is the one that I love following the most with some really decent tips and tricks on what to do, and most importantly what not to do.
Can you spot a couple of the failures that I made in this video? That is the thing with editting. You can not really undo all of the shots that you have already made there. The shots already exist and that is what you have to work with. Hopefully I can take some time in this learning curve to go and produce the next awesome shot. In Greece I was having enough attention already to not crash the drone into the water, since my last one went for a swim unfortunately. But that means that when you are paying attention to some aspect a lot, you loose the attention for other stuff.
It has to become a natural way of working, and what I also noticed over the weekend with this ice cold wind here. When it is cold and you start to shiver, that isn't really that easy to do. Making slow shots, moving to the side, also angleling the drone to the side at the same time, and managing the gimble at the same time. Ow yeah...do this all fluently so it looks like one motion.
Easier said than done I would say and that is stuff that needs time and a decent moment to sit and pay full attention to it. I am considering to take off the joystick handles to get better movement which isn't sudden and radical, but I have to experiment and see if that works.
Stuff to work on! But it give inspiration to fly and take it out again and work for the best shot! Music by Eli Filosov