Landscape Photography With a Skydio 2 Drone

I’ve been an avid landscape photographer for many years, and I’ve been a drone flyer for almost 4 years. I liked the idea of getting landscape shots from angles I simply couldn’t get to from the ground. Living in Arizona, there’s a lot of opportunities to get some lovely images from the air. My drone of choice when I purchased was a DJI Mavic Pro Platinum. It had pretty good flight time (30 minutes if winds and conditions are perfect) and a camera that could produce solid images. It uses a Sony sensor, 1/2.3” (CMOS), Effective pixels:12.35 M (Total pixels:12.71M). It’s not unlike the sensor on current iPhones. The Mavic has been excellent, and while DJI has offered some newer, slicker drones with better cameras I did not find the differences worth the upgrade. My Mavic Pro has been reliable, and has done the job. My main gripe with the Mavic was the constant feeling that a crash was right around the corner. While the FAA rules say you must keep your drone in visual line of sight, in the real world it’s sometimes hard to see a drone against a landscape or a bright sky. My continual worry […]

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