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Montfrooij
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Wow, beautiful!
2018-8-20
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Peiper1944
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very nice shot, i love the night pic
2018-8-22
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Woe
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Stunning captures.
2018-8-22
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Dronaldo
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Great Material
wondering how is the regulation about drones use in Shenzhen?
2018-8-28
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PandaFlyingcat
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Dronaldo Posted at 2018-8-28 05:50
Great Material
wondering how is the regulation about drones use in Shenzhen?

the rule is that nobody care here in china. and thats good. i will never understand the drama about using drones to shoot nice photos and videos. we customer paid alot money for a nice toy. but the whole world + media seems to see drones as nuclear weapons and everybody only want to use the evil photo mode to burn out peoples brains or something.
i fly drones for so many years now and never hurt or disturbed anybody. i see them as wonderful tools to capture our planet from a better angle.
every day thousands of people die in car crashes. but nobody bann cars or put NODRIVEZONES up.
instead of regulating us customer to death, DJI should implement a drone license. the longer and better you fly, the more zones will get unlocked. beginner pilots have to prove themselfes before they are allowed to fly higher/further than 100 meters. pro pilots with million of thes rediculous points we get in the DJI app should be completely unlocked and not be bothered by locked motors or all this nonsense stuff they always come up with to really pi..ss  customers off.
anyway we are drifting of here. useful rules YES, cripple drones to death NO.
2018-8-29
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Dronaldo
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PandaFlyingcat Posted at 2018-8-29 07:51
the rule is that nobody care here in china. and thats good. i will never understand the drama about using drones to shoot nice photos and videos. we customer paid alot money for a nice toy. but the whole world + media seems to see drones as nuclear weapons and everybody only want to use the evil photo mode to burn out peoples brains or something.
i fly drones for so many years now and never hurt or disturbed anybody. i see them as wonderful tools to capture our planet from a better angle.
every day thousands of people die in car crashes. but nobody bann cars or put NODRIVEZONES up.

Great!!
that is the way should be,  you must be responsible flying and that is it.  if you want to make damages, even a brick can do it
2018-8-29
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ghutch
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Great looking images and thanks for the exposure info...
2018-8-29
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PandaFlyingcat
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Dronaldo Posted at 2018-8-29 12:12
Great!!
that is the way should be,  you must be responsible flying and that is it.  if you want to make damages, even a brick can do it

exactly. fly responsible and turn on your brain before turn on RC --> everybody will have a happy time.
2018-8-29
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Amazing shots !!
2018-8-29
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HendrikJB
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PandaFlyingcat Posted at 2018-7-26 11:31
P4A plus
iso 100
shutter ~1/2 sec

Thank you for the critical info.

Awesome.
2018-8-31
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HendrikJB
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sky wombat Posted at 2018-7-28 00:38
Here you go Panda. That's as good as it gets here as no night lights anywhere [view_image]

And where is this?
2018-9-1
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RAONE
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wow that's fab.....
2018-9-1
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fans5b3f5928
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Nice exposured shots, P4A?
2018-9-3
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djiuser_wfJi2SKDhmWZ
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Really it's beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing, I hope you will make other pictures as beautiful as these and share them too.
2018-10-16
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Peterx
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Sind die Bilder von Tai Peh oder Tai Nan? Exzellente Arbeit
2018-10-17
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elijahjames
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Really it's beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing,
2018-10-23
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davidmartingraf
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Nicely done - thanks again for sharing.
2018-10-23
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Air/America
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PandaFlyingcat Posted at 2018-7-26 11:31
P4A plus
iso 100
shutter ~1/2 sec

"P4A plus
iso 100
shutter ~1/2 sec"

"for night images you need to be high, stable and shoot 3-6 photos for  each scene to make sure you got one which is sharp enough. so from 200  photos you get usually 10-20 better ones. and those you can start work  on with lightroom and/or PS. thats it"


Those are some great looking images PandaFlyingcat. Maybe try a higher ISO and faster shutter speed for a better yield ratio of good pictures (20/200) ?

You say that you are shooting your images at;

P4A plus
iso 100
shutter ~1/2 sec

Maybe also try shooting your images at;

iso 200
shutter ~1/4 sec

iso 400
shutter ~1/8 sec
2018-10-24
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Woe
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Amazing captures
2018-10-24
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1Eagle
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Beautiful shots man, simply gorgeous......Keep up the good work/play.
2018-10-24
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PandaFlyingcat
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Air/America Posted at 2018-10-24 03:58
"P4A plus
iso 100
shutter ~1/2 sec"

why you want to go higher with ISO?
2018-10-24
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Air/America
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"for night images you need to be high, stable and shoot 3-6 photos for  each scene to make sure you got one which is sharp enough. so from 200  photos you get usually 10-20 better ones. and those you can start work  on with lightroom and/or PS. thats it"


With higher ISO you can go faster with shutter speed.
Too high ISO and you get some pixel artifacts anomolies.
Too slow shutter speed and you get some blur or smear image.
Maybe you get a sweet spot around ISO 200 and 1/4 shutter speed or ISO 400 and 1/8 shutter speed?
The images you have posted look very good. I thought you may achieve a better ratio than 10-20 of 200.

2018-10-24
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CA Mavic Pro
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BEAUTIFUL pics
2018-10-24
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PandaFlyingcat
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Air/America Posted at 2018-10-24 18:34
"for night images you need to be high, stable and shoot 3-6 photos for  each scene to make sure you got one which is sharp enough. so from 200  photos you get usually 10-20 better ones. and those you can start work  on with lightroom and/or PS. thats it"

best settings are RAW and ISO100 for lowest noise.
the shutter speed is an absolute must to catch moving cars and make them appear really moving from the light trails. to get that effect you have to go over 1/2 to 1 sec shutter and thats what i did.

the tutorial i wrote before is enough to know for beginner since they are not working on RAWs in post anyway. if you fly low i say you are right and faster shutter speed make sense but if i want take city night shots i always fly high to reduce chances to get blurry images even the drone move around a bit.
ISO 200 is ok but 400 is already too much noise. i am printing these photos in large and there you can see it even with 400.
2018-10-24
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Air/America
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PandaFlyingcat Posted at 2018-10-24 22:00
best settings are RAW and ISO100 for lowest noise.
the shutter speed is an absolute must to catch moving cars and make them appear really moving from the light trails. to get that effect you have to go over 1/2 to 1 sec shutter and thats what i did.

Your posted images look fantastic. I was not criticizing your work. I was just suggesting that maybe a little faster shutter speed would compensate for possible drone movement and yield a lot more of good images. Maybe then yield a 50/200 image ratio, 25%

2018-10-25
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PandaFlyingcat
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Air/America Posted at 2018-10-25 06:40
Your posted images look fantastic. I was not criticizing your work. I was just suggesting that maybe a little faster shutter speed would compensate for possible drone movement and yield a lot more of good images. Maybe then yield a 50/200 image ratio, 25%

i got what you said. no offence taken buddy. but you said it already. photos looking fantastic. reduce shutter speed would not make them any better. just froze cars and make it less dynamic i guess then?
anyway. we both know what we are talking about. depends on situation, height and what you wanna shoot. then yes. sometimes higher ISO is the way to go.
2018-10-25
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P3KoYoT
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Great night shots! Kind illegal thing in Poland   
2018-10-30
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A CW
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Amazing shots! Very well done!
2018-10-30
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tokenbrit
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Amongst the best sets of photos I have seen posted here - very well done indeed.
2018-10-30
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davidmartingraf
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Nicely done - thanks again for sharing.
2018-10-30
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davidmartingraf
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Nicely done - thanks again for sharing.
2018-10-30
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Peaches18
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This is amazing! Good work!
2018-10-31
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AMZPOW
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wow, wonderful !
2019-1-16
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Sayhelloforme
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Beautiful captures. Beautiful city. I love night captures. Thanks for sharing.  
2019-1-16
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davidmartingraf
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Nicely done - thanks again for sharing!
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