I went on an adventure with my girlfriend and my dad to the Ross Creek Cedars in Montana. It was a really cool place to fly, but particularly dangerous with the density of trees! Crashing on these steep mountains or above the river would have been bye-bye birdie! Were the photos worth it?
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Bull Lake (left), Snowshoe Peak
Group adventure!
Here my dad is showing Megan a plant he identified as wild ginger. Megan just got a gardening job, and I was really happy that this moment happened and that we all could be together in general. There are very few primary growth forests left and this was such a cool spot to check out, I highly recommend it. Bring your loved ones.
For me as a drone pilot this was a perfect spot to go out and fly. National Forests are the best place to fly from a legal point of view, and forests are ripe with photo opportunities. Especially tall trees are a challenging subject to capture because they are so tall, that my gimbal cannot tilt high enough to see the tops of the tree, so I can't capture the height of the trees unless I am far away. I was able to fly directly up and check my altitude and determine the real height of the trees. They were all generally 130 feet tall or more. Another tricky component to photographing/filming the forest is the light coming through the trees can affect how the "auto" settings work in video mode. Unless you lock in your camera settings, if you are in a shadow and then you are in direct sunlight the drone will constantly change the shutter speed causing the footage to look like this:
At any rate, May 26, 2021 it will be the 1-year anniversary of my first flight! I fly very often and I learn something almost every time. I have some very interesting things coming up in my professional drone life. I have begun to expirement with a process called photogrammetry - which is absolutely getting its own blog post soon. I can create 3D models and Digital Terrain Maps with my drone! Stay tuned for a preview of that!
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Bull Lake (left), Snowshoe Peak
Group adventure!
Here my dad is showing Megan a plant he identified as wild ginger. Megan just got a gardening job, and I was really happy that this moment happened and that we all could be together in general. There are very few primary growth forests left and this was such a cool spot to check out, I highly recommend it. Bring your loved ones.
For me as a drone pilot this was a perfect spot to go out and fly. National Forests are the best place to fly from a legal point of view, and forests are ripe with photo opportunities. Especially tall trees are a challenging subject to capture because they are so tall, that my gimbal cannot tilt high enough to see the tops of the tree, so I can't capture the height of the trees unless I am far away. I was able to fly directly up and check my altitude and determine the real height of the trees. They were all generally 130 feet tall or more. Another tricky component to photographing/filming the forest is the light coming through the trees can affect how the "auto" settings work in video mode. Unless you lock in your camera settings, if you are in a shadow and then you are in direct sunlight the drone will constantly change the shutter speed causing the footage to look like this:
At any rate, May 26, 2021 it will be the 1-year anniversary of my first flight! I fly very often and I learn something almost every time. I have some very interesting things coming up in my professional drone life. I have begun to expirement with a process called photogrammetry - which is absolutely getting its own blog post soon. I can create 3D models and Digital Terrain Maps with my drone! Stay tuned for a preview of that!