Getting more and more accustomed to casual drone photography I’ve started experimenting with some unusual effects. What I did is bought 3 quite cheap filters, removed the filter rings and attached filter glass to the drone lens. This brought me some unusual images as well as videos. Everything drone sees is tripled or even quadrupled and it looks quite interesting.
There are downsides though. First of all, this modification results in severe image quality degradation (less in video). Two filters are made of a thick glass so drone’s gimbal gets overloaded and cannot maintain horizontal level at all. Only one filter can be used 90% of time without problems. Also, stiching panoramas become a hard work, since the program cannot find control points to stitch two images together. Moreover, not every scene looks great while using the filter because it may look just unrecognizable and messy. In my opinion, the effect looks better while shooting roundabouts, general roads and some buildings..Please watch the video to see the effect:
Very nice work indeed. Always wanted to make a star filter but the thought of trying to find wire as small as would be needed spaced as close as it would have to be always stopped me. Glad that you visualized something and went for it. Great job!
EdM Posted at 2018-7-24 11:38
Very nice work indeed. Always wanted to make a star filter but the thought of trying to find wire as small as would be needed spaced as close as it would have to be always stopped me. Glad that you visualized something and went for it. Great job!
Thanks, I used a duck tape to attach the filter and it worked. The gimbal really tried it's best to hold a horizontal level but sometimes it failed.
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