The Benson Bridge and the Falls

[AlanLichty]

I am still futzing about with the camera color profiles for my Mavic 3 Pro drone and in this case the 70mm lens/sensor. This is a cropped scene from a shot at Multnomah Falls taken with the 70mm lens showing the Benson Bridge and some of the trails near the falls. Single frame cropped to a 2x3 format.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Josh Dye]

Nice shot Alan. The new mavic 3 pro seems like a sweet drone. Have you noticed if there’s any loss of sharpness when at 70mm or 166mm? Super curious to hear how some of those photos come out.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice shot Alan. The new mavic 3 pro seems like a sweet drone. Have you noticed if there’s any loss of sharpness when at 70mm or 166mm? Super curious to hear how some of those photos come out.

Thanks Josh - sharpness really isn't an issue with either the 70mm or 166mm lenses. The 70mm lens has a 1/1.3 sensor that is 48MP with the above image being around a 66% crop. This isn't quite at the pixel peeping 100% level but still has all the sharpness I need for my imagery once I apply my usual Denoise filtering. The image above was run through Adobe Lightroom's Denoise filter with no additional sharpening in Photoshop.

The 166mm lens/sensor still has the same sensor as the older Mavic 3 drone but the 166mm produces much better captures than the 162mm did with the Mavic 3. The 166mm also has vastly improved color rendition over the older 162mm on the Mavic 3.

 

[larryj]

I am still futzing about with the camera color profiles for my Mavic 3 Pro drone and in this case the 70mm lens/sensor. This is a cropped scene from a shot at Multnomah Falls taken with the 70mm lens showing the Benson Bridge and some of the trails near the falls. Single frame cropped to a 2x3 format.

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C&C always welcome.

That is one beautiful shot Alan; thanks for sharing. Drone technology has really improved in the last 5-7 years.

 

[AlanLichty]

That is one beautiful shot Alan; thanks for sharing. Drone technology has really improved in the last 5-7 years.

Thanks Larry - the combination of improvements in drone tech as well as sensor tech goes hand in hand here and we are the beneficiaries. Having 24mm, 70mm, and 166mm all available as lenses in the air has been a real game changer in my mind.

 

[Bob Israel]

Nice Alan! Boy that bridge is getting more and more covered by the trees. Haven't seen these falls in several years now.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice Alan! Boy that bridge is getting more and more covered by the trees. Haven't seen these falls in several years now.

Thanks Bob - the bridge being obscured by trees is mostly a function of me shooting with my drone from out over the Columbia River instead of the usual viewpoint down by the lodge.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice viewpoint for these falls.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice viewpoint for these falls.

Thanks - and really easy to move your tripod if you don't like the position

 

[Josh Dye]

Thanks Josh - sharpness really isn't an issue with either the 70mm or 166mm lenses. The 70mm lens has a 1/1.3 sensor that is 48MP with the above image being around a 66% crop. This isn't quite at the pixel peeping 100% level but still has all the sharpness I need for my imagery once I apply my usual Denoise filtering. The image above was run through Adobe Lightroom's Denoise filter with no additional sharpening in Photoshop.

The 166mm lens/sensor still has the same sensor as the older Mavic 3 drone but the 166mm produces much better captures than the 162mm did with the Mavic 3. The 166mm also has vastly improved color rendition over the older 162mm on the Mavic 3.

Wow that’s really impressive to hear about. Sounds like you’ve gotten a good amount of knowledge out of the camera system so far too. If I had the money I’d totally buy that M3P but I just can’t justify that over a lens right now haha. Excited to see the new images you get with it!

 

[AlanLichty]

Wow that’s really impressive to hear about. Sounds like you’ve gotten a good amount of knowledge out of the camera system so far too. If I had the money I’d totally buy that M3P but I just can’t justify that over a lens right now haha. Excited to see the new images you get with it!

I have posted quite a few shots from the Gorge shot with the various lenses over the past few weeks. More to come too.

 

[BlackRockArt]

I am still futzing about with the camera color profiles for my Mavic 3 Pro drone and in this case the 70mm lens/sensor. This is a cropped scene from a shot at Multnomah Falls taken with the 70mm lens showing the Benson Bridge and some of the trails near the falls. Single frame cropped to a 2x3 format.

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C&C always welcome.

Alan, I love the unusal POV, for a drone shot, this is an excellent resut.

Oliver

 

[AlanLichty]

Alan, I love the unusal POV, for a drone shot, this is an excellent resut.

Oliver

Thanks Oliver - These falls would be hard to shoot like this without having at least some form of telephoto lens on your drone. At 24mm you can't fly in close enough because of the No-fly zone.

 

[JimFox]

This is really cool Alan! I like the angle.

You have mentioned Color Profile issues, I would be interested to see an untouched image from the drone in terms of color profile, and then one with the Color Profile used, and I guess a 3rd would be when you tweaked the colors from the Color Profile. If you decide to do it, maybe post it in the Drone section? That could be helpful to others.

 

[AlanLichty]

This is really cool Alan! I like the angle.

You have mentioned Color Profile issues, I would be interested to see an untouched image from the drone in terms of color profile, and then one with the Color Profile used, and I guess a 3rd would be when you tweaked the colors from the Color Profile. If you decide to do it, maybe post it in the Drone section? That could be helpful to others.

Thanks Jim - this is a roughly 65% crop out of a 48MP capture as the original goes up to the top of the falls. It just happened to be a file I was doing some camera profile/preset experiments with and decided it was a fun crop.

I have actually been playing with the old Adobe DNG Profile Editor today after getting a Macbeth color chart and made up some new ones for my old Mavic 3. That might be a good drone forum topic.

 

[Beth]

cool shot. and very different from most of the multnomah falls shots that i've seen.

 

[AlanLichty]

cool shot. and very different from most of the multnomah falls shots that i've seen.

Thanks Beth - it was fun seeing this crop in the scene I shot since it was so different from every other shot from these falls I have seen.

 

[IainGFoulds]

… It would make a great selfie with you at the bottom of the falls!

 

[AlanLichty]

… It would make a great selfie with you at the bottom of the falls!

Interesting thought but these waterfalls are in a flight restricted area due to heavy tourist traffic. I fly out over the Columbia River and in this case used a 70mm lens.