From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Nighttime drone photography using a cube light

Nighttime drone photography using a cube light

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Nighttime drone photography using a cube light

- Selfies are for wimps. Real photographers self light. From now on, I am going to always be followed around by this dramatic lighting thanks to my aerial lighting drone that I built myself. This thing's great. This is just a DJI Phantom 2 with a light stuck on it. It's drifting a little bit 'cause it's windy out here. Several months ago on the Practicing Photographer I introduced to you the idea of drones as lighting platform, but I didn't really give you any specific equipment recommendations. I'm gonna do that here now because I found a really cheap, really effective way to make a drone that's ideal for still shooting. We got a lot of light coming out of this thing. It may not look like it on video, but when you're working with a still camera, this is a tremendous lighting platform for doing some really cool aerial lighting effects at night. Let's go inside now and take a look at what I've done to make this work. (drone buzzing) I got two drones here, so I can show you a before and…

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