Advice for photo mission?
After much reading/studying I'm finally starting to fly some missions. All going very well to this point. However I'm not quite sure how to set things up to create a photo "progress flight".
Basically I want to take individual still images at various points at one of my sites. But the actual framing of each image is important to make sure a certain perspective is captured. Next step would be to fly the exact same mission multiple times in the future and capture the same images each time.
Any advice that might help me get started here would be most appreciated!
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Hi and welcome Tim.
Probably the best way to achieve this is to use the "on the fly" "photo" mission plan, using this you fly to the spot you want to take the photo from, set all the altitude, gimbal angle etc so that the photo is framed as you want, select mark, fly to the next photo location and repeat, once you've done this for all the photo locations you want, click next in the Wizard, and it will ask you to name the mission, then you click through to confirm settings, before finally flying the mission and taking the photos.
Next time you want to take the photos, you just go to site, load the mission, and fly it like any normal mission
Good advice from Martin.
The other thing I would add. Edit the mission to include any camera settings - E.g. raw, etc. Then run the mission twice, landing in between. I've found the direction and location can be different between different runs and having 2 sets gives you options.
Cheers, Barry Houldsworth, maybe an idea for a 5 minute Friday video, good point about editing it to include camera settings (set up a list component)
@Martin
Actually I did this a long time ago for different software. But that's behind a pay wall on Udemy.
That was part of a whole series about creating cinematic shots with programming. I've thought about recreating for DL. But it would take a lot of time to do properly and probably only makes sense if I could monetize it somehow. I just don't know if there would be a big enough market for it.
Fair enough Barry Houldsworth
Thank you very much Martin & Barry! The method you describe Martin sounds like it would do exactly what I need. I assume that if I capture more images than I'll need in the end that it would be pretty straight forward to edit the mission to include only those shots that are "keepers"?
One more request and granted that it may be pushing it a bit, but I would appreciate it if you could somehow make it stop RAINING around here so I can try this out! Now that would be a highly marketable add-on for sure. :-)
Hi Tim. Your one question about: “I assume that if I capture more images than I'll need in the end that it would be pretty straight forward to edit the mission to include only those shots that are "keepers"? Yes. Once you create the On The Fly mission and then run it to completion it will be in your previously flown missions. Go to the missions tab in the web app and open that mission. Then copy to a Repo. You can add, remove or adjust anything just like any other plan. Enjoy….
Hi Tim,
Re. Mike's response - here's how you convert an on the fly mission into an editable mission.
https://vimeo.com/586096473
Hope that helps!
Barry
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