Tentative Steps

[AlanLichty]

I finally got to shoot something in the Real World(TM) instead of my neighborhood yesterday. I have to confess that I was almost a bit rattled about pulling the drone out and launching it from the edge of a very quiet lake in a state park instead of my driveway and wasn't thinking clearly about my intentions beyond sending the drone up.

This is Lake Marie which is a small lake tucked in between inactive sand dunes in the Umpqua Lighthouse State Park just south of the Reedsport/Winchester Bay area. I discovered that I should have done this as a panorama but I didn't figure that out until I was back in my campsite.

A gratuitous shot of the lighthouse from above:

Hopefully I will get some better images today as I migrate down the coast to Brookings.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Jim Dockery]

These look good Alan, nice color and sharpness. Did you shoot them at the high res. setting? When I have a good shot I almost always do at least a two frame pano. I tried the pano mode in camera, but wasn't impressed.

 

[AlanLichty]

These look good Alan, nice color and sharpness. Did you shoot them at the high res. setting? When I have a good shot I almost always do at least a two frame pano. I tried the pano mode in camera, but wasn't impressed.

Thanks Jim - yes these were shot in 48mp mode. The few panos I tried with the built-in function at home failed to impress me so I will be following your path in yawing the drone to get my panos as individual shots. I will be looking to shoot more panoramas today

My burst mode is limited to 12mp resolution and there seems to be a fair amount of movement of the drone in flight so the time lag I get while the first image is being written ends up with a lot of alignment issues. I tried rapidly pressing the shutter release to get a burst but it won't do a second image until the first one has been written.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice drone image Alan.

 

[JimFox]

Great job Alan! I know we have been there with the wishing we had done something different, but not until we are done and can’t do it… hindsight is awesome!

I like the Lake Marie shot as it is though. I don’t think there was a need for a pano.

Good job on your first steps. I still hope I can run up to the Eastern Sierra maybe tomorrow and fly my drone some.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice shot of the Lake. The deep blue waters probably don't look that color from the ground.

I thought your neighborhood is in the Real World as well - unless you are living in the Metaverse

 

[AlanLichty]

Great job Alan! I know we have been there with the wishing we had done something different, but not until we are done and can’t do it… hindsight is awesome!

I like the Lake Marie shot as it is though. I don’t think there was a need for a pano.

Good job on your first steps. I still hope I can run up to the Eastern Sierra maybe tomorrow and fly my drone some.

I did a lot more looking around once I was up in the air today and took several panos on the way down to Brookings. The shot felt a bit cutoff on the sides but there really wasn't much more to see unless I flew over the lake looking straight down. There is a trail that leads around the lake but very few good viewpoints to shoot from. I spent a night at this campground a few ago and hiked the trail with my DSLR.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice shot of the Lake. The deep blue waters probably don't look that color from the ground.

I thought your neighborhood is in the Real World as well - unless you are living in the Metaverse

Thanks Jameel - The lake has very clear water down close but it does reflect the skies quite well when the water is still.

After only shooting right around my neighborhood for a couple of weeks flying somewhere else felt like a different place
I can't say that the metaverse holds my interest at all - especially variants of it inhabited by FacePlant.