From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Shooting stills from a drone

Shooting stills from a drone

- For better or for worse, a new photographic fad is sweeping the world, I'm talking, of course, about the drone, which has brought aerial photography to, if not the masses, at least to a bunch of people who couldn't afford it before. These things are not that expensive, they're really fun to fly. I got one and I'm having a ball with it. This is the drone that I'm using, this is the Phantom 2 made by a company called DJI. Now, I chose the Phantom 2 for a few reasons. First, cost, it's actually an affordable piece of gear. Two, it can carry a GoPro and I wanted to shoot with a GoPro because I already had one, I know how to use it, I like the image quality. Three, it has this built-in gimbal. Now, the gimbal is what keeps the camera leveled, as the copter moves around the camera stays perfectly leveled. Obviously this is great for shooting video because it means I get smooth leveled video, but even for stills it's really important because it means that the horizon is always gonna be…

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