Dear Dronists!

I invite you on a journey... a panoramic one with little big planets and an Astro shot with the Mavic Air.
As usual in this article, you'll find tips & tricks and useful information about the Mavic Air and its awesome functions.




I'm going to focus mainly on the 360 Sphere function of the Mavic Air, since the results are stunning wherever you take them.
All materials are shot at a single location in a radius of 500m.

First tip: I plan my shots/locations before arrival. When "in the air" be sure to look around because you might find some highly interesting spots.

This article focuses on mainly 360 panorama shots.

Battery and flight time:

I continue to repeat myself in every article that having a minimum of 2 batteries is a must. For now, I'm waiting for my second battery to arrive but till then I'm going to show you what can you do with one battery! As you can see the total flight distance is of 1795.3m in 17:06 minutes. I had 12% of battery life left at the moment of landing.During this flight, I managed to take 2x 360 Sphere panoramas 15 pictures, and 2 minutes of video.



Let me present you these stunning places with a Little Planet View. For now, DJI Forum does not have the function to view 360 panoramas.
I really would like to show you how they look like, so, for this reason, you'll find the 360 full sphere panoramas link below the pictures.

Tip: For those of you who need bigger sized panoramas than 32 megapixels, good guy DJI offers the possibility to save the individual pictures one by one.
Be sure to tick the "Save Unstitched Pano Photos".

This way you can use the images with the help of a third party panorama stitching software to get a higher resolution panorama. It's a good option if you would like to add a fake sky for example.

"The Hound"

360 view

S-Line

360 view

Take a look how much fun is to make an Astro shot!



Note: Regardless of your video settings when using ASTRO Shot mode you'll end up with Full-HD resolution!
Here are some edited shots, for you to make an idea about Mavic Airs photo quality.







Hope you like it! Stay tuned! More Mavic Air articles are on their way!

Wow, great post and excellent editing skill, thank you for your efforts! Looking forward to your more articles.

DJI Thor Posted at 2018-3-6 01:01
Wow, great post and excellent editing skill, thank you for your efforts! Looking forward to your more articles.

Thank you, Thor! I'm very glad you like my article and thank you for appreciating my work!

Nice work and very different.
What video editing software do you use?

Rudy

Great photos can’t wait to see more

DJI Thor Posted at 2018-3-6 01:01
Wow, great post and excellent editing skill, thank you for your efforts! Looking forward to your more articles.

Same idea with you here

Brilliant thread!   

sky6105 Posted at 2018-3-6 01:14
Nice work and very different.
What video editing software do you use?

Hi Rudy! First of all thank you for your comment! The video in this thread is unedited, straight from the camera for all of you to make an idea about the quality.
For editing, I use Final Cut Pro X.

Gregbella Posted at 2018-3-6 01:14
Great photos can’t wait to see more

Thank you! Interesting ones coming soon

DJI Grace Posted at 2018-3-6 01:18
Same idea with you here

Thank you Grace!

A CW Posted at 2018-3-6 01:18
Brilliant thread!

Thank you for your comment

TheDon Posted at 2018-3-6 01:37
Thank you Grace!

you deserve this!

TheDon Posted at 2018-3-6 01:37
Thank you for your comment

No problem - the first still is quite exceptional! Amazing shot!

DJI Grace Posted at 2018-3-6 01:41
you deserve this!

Trying my best! thank you very much!

A CW Posted at 2018-3-6 01:43
No problem - the first still is quite exceptional! Amazing shot!

Thank you! Been waiting some time to shoot it as how I imagined, because of bad weather conditions...

Wow... Very nice... The first photo is like sucking me in LOL.. by the way you can post 360 panorama over here, take a look on below link:

https://forum.dji.com/thread-137942-1-1.html

kfloke Posted at 2018-3-6 01:48
Wow... Very nice... The first photo is like sucking me in LOL.. by the way you can post 360 panorama over here, take a look on below link:

https://forum.dji.com/thread-137942-1-1.html

wow! Thank you! Will do the adjustments! Thank you very much!!!

TheDon Posted at 2018-3-6 01:51
wow! Thank you! Will do the adjustments! Thank you very much!!!

You are welcome!!!

Excellent. It's always good to see how others do different things. Thank you.

Kevin Halle Posted at 2018-3-6 03:31
Excellent. It's always good to see how others do different things. Thank you.

Thank you! You're right!

Oh wow.
That looks amazing!

Montfrooij Posted at 2018-3-6 04:10
Oh wow.
That looks amazing!

Thank you very much!!

TheDon Posted at 2018-3-6 04:12
Thank you very much!!

You're welcome!

amazing post

Jose Navarrete Posted at 2018-3-6 10:23
amazing post

Thank you!

Thanks for the helpful hints.

As DJI Thor replied  " Wow "

B1houdini Posted at 2018-3-6 11:03
Thanks for the helpful hints.

As DJI Thor replied  " Wow "

Thank you!

Hi I have the phantom 4 but the controller just keeps beeping  help plz

Great!!!! I will try these shots too

maurom82 Posted at 2018-3-11 14:25
Great!!!! I will try these shots too

Thank you! Waiting for the results ;)

What a great and informative thread! Nice shots also!
after reading it I just tried my first attempt with the Astro mode.

SafariMan Posted at 2018-3-12 00:01
What a great and informative thread! Nice shots also!
after reading it I just tried my first attempt with the Astro mode.

Awesome! Nice to hear that my thread motivated you to try out Astro Shot! GREAT WORK!

Love em'

Great stuff!

djiuser_AH0mVNP1ApBb Posted at 2018-3-15 22:01
Great stuff!

Thank you!!!!

How do you get the final sphere panorama off your phone/device?  I tried a few different things and am yet to successfully get the spheres off the device to post or do anything with because I get an error message stating the image is larger the 20mb and cannot be shared.

Great shots!

Wow these are amazing! Thanks for sharing. Will have to try taking panos and flying higher up.

If I may have a little point of criticism , (it's also on the mavic pro) there is still a lot off overexpose in the pano's.
DJI GO 4 app first photo is taken downwards, adjust the expose and locked before shooting further. When camera facing into the sun the photo becomes over-exposed
Now the job for the  DJI engineers is to set the first photo horizontal (just like litchi do).

Great work.. feel like i have to put Romania on my bucket list