The rivers in my area were the primary means of transportation of lumber to the lumber mills and paper plants until the automobile arrived. A drone view shows the old patterns much more clearly than driving the streets
Neenah, WI with a paper mill built square in the middle of the river...
the top picture was processed using the new noise reduction in Lightroom. As is, the noise reduction is severally limited in files types, but for raw files with a lot of shadow lifting, the improvement was great.
I have been using Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) to keep the sun from banding. And I really work for a pano layout whenever I can on a sunset. The picture above is 3 sets of 5 pictures ( -2,-1,0,+1,+2 exposures) first merged into 3 hdr photos and then merged into a single hdr-pano. The mini 3...
Yesterday afternoon
this morning after 4 inches of snow
it was strated raining so I chicken out on putting the drone up and by the afternoon the trees had lost the snow
it's not easy to tell, but these guys woke up to their island frozen in. The only open water is the thin dark stretch coming from the island point. By noon they could get back to shore.
4 shot pano taken with a mini 3 pro
5 shot hdr image taken with the ABM option on the mini 3
the pano was taken a few minutes before the ABM. A few minutes later the sunset disappeared
nikon Z 7 & 14-30 f4
So why is it worth $6000. Looked at a Z9 last week and I was tempted . Since then I have been getting sunsets like this nearly daily With the Z7. Turns out 30 minutes after sunset is nearly magical right now. And the Z7 is making a case against any further GAS.
I was experimenting with the program flight options well before I had reflexes ready and the experiment did not end well. With the drone I had purchased a two year care/refresh package. Thankfully DJI appears to honor that package exactly as advertised. One visit to their website and I had an...
Shot I went for:
And it's follow up
ran out light or courage to keep flying, but, 10 minutes after sunset this showed up. Luckily I had brought my camera along with the drone
Dji mini 3 pro. 4 shot pano. The handling of highlights and exposure latitude seems greatly improved. The handling of the drone is a huge step up from my Mavic Air.
There is an issue with Uploading Photos (attachjments). I am not sure what the problem is, and I am looking into it. You can still try to Create your Threads and Upload your Photos, but it is hanging up during the Upload.