Light painting season arrives in Devon, UK

Now you have to tell us how you managed to fly in such a perfect circle :-)

mavic2zoom-ch Posted at 10-6 12:37
Now you have to tell us how you managed to fly in such a perfect circle :-)

POI with the Air 2S locked on to one of the turrets

I tried this stuff with the Air 2 last year, but could never lock on to anything in low light so had to attempt manual orbits. This image was taken about 30 mins before the sun came up, and it was a lot darker than it looks, but the 2S was able to lock on to objects on the castle with active track despite that.

The rest was pretty easy

Hello there Red Zeppelin. Good day and thank you for sharing this cool capture. Great work and have a nice day. .

Very cool, I'll have to try that one of these days.

Absolutly fantastic,   camera settings used?

Light painting with drones is just awesome, light painting to the next level

Wow, very cool.  

DAFlys Posted at 10-6 23:27
Absolutly fantastic,   camera settings used?

It was super basic mate as I only have an Osmo Action camera, so it was single image in manual, 100 ISO and 15 second exposure. That's about all you can control with the Osmo - couldn't even adjust the EV in manual which I thought was odd.

Tried a few different exposure lengths, but 15 secs minimum was required to catch the full orbit of the 2S in POI mode at max speed. I'd like to invest in a dedicated camera for future attempts, but I haven't a clue where to start so will keep trying with the Osmo for now

Red Zeppelin Posted at 10-7 05:29
It was super basic mate as I only have an Osmo Action camera, so it was single image in manual, 100 ISO and 15 second exposure. That's about all you can control with the Osmo - couldn't even adjust the EV in manual which I thought was odd.

Tried a few different exposure lengths, but 15 secs minimum was required to catch the full orbit of the 2S in POI mode at max speed. I'd like to invest in a dedicated camera for future attempts, but I haven't a clue where to start so will keep trying with the Osmo for now

Ah ok. For some reason I’d assumed you were using nd filters to slow the shutter speed.

Super creative shot!

DAFlys Posted at 10-7 05:32
Ah ok. For some reason I’d assumed you were using nd filters to slow the shutter speed.

No, just the regular Osmo lens although I have since ordered some ND filters as I could have taken more images if I'd had them, but it quickly became pointless with the standard lens as it got lighter.

I have an ND1000 for daylight long exposures, but couldn't see a thing with that on

Red Zeppelin Posted at 10-7 06:00
No, just the regular Osmo lens although I have since ordered some ND filters as I could have taken more images if I'd had them, but it quickly became pointless with the standard lens as it got lighter.

I have an ND1000 for daylight long exposures, but couldn't see a thing with that on

Thanks for sharing the info.  I need to give this a go.