Iceland Volcano eruption - video

Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508


Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a drone g


-hh

On Mar 23, 2021, hh wrote
(in ):

Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508

Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a droneg

-hh

....but are you thinking of the new DJI FPV drone, or are you thinking of one of the DJI GPS camera drones?

There are big differences, between the types which include the way they are flown, and the potential added cost due to damage to the FPV drone. Then there is the difference in image capture. That said, while I am thoroughly enjoying my Mavic Air 2, I am seriously considering buying the new FPV drone for the very different flying, and image capture experience. I highly recommend adding a drone, or two to your photography/videography tool kit.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-tr3D83t/0/b7b04eea/1920/Morro%20Bay%20Heading%20Out%20B-1920.mp4

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Regards,
Savageduck

On 23/03/2021 21:01, Savageduck wrote:
On Mar 23, 2021, hh wrote
(in ):

Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508

Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a droneg

-hh

...but are you thinking of the new DJI FPV drone, or are you thinking of one of the DJI GPS camera drones?

There are big differences, between the types which include the way they are flown, and the potential added cost due to damage to the FPV drone. Then there is the difference in image capture. That said, while I am thoroughly enjoying my Mavic Air 2, I am seriously considering buying the new FPV drone for the very different flying, and image capture experience. I highly recommend adding a drone, or two to your photography/videography tool kit.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-tr3D83t/0/b7b04eea/1920/Morro%20Bay%20Heading%20Out%20B-1920.mp4

Thanks Duck, I enjoyed that view of Morro Bay.
At about 3:28 you can see the head of a marine creature to the left of
the boat. By 3:40 you can see it swimming across behind the boat as it
slips out of the picture, just after a gull takes a hop and a skip to
get out of the way. Would that be a sea otter?
At about the the same place in the film I realised that I had over
estimated the effect of the tide in some of you earlier videos. My eye
and brain are unused watching a video when the speed of the done matches
the of the object, in this case the boat. If you concentrate on the boat
and the water around it looks as if the boat is working very hard to
stay in the same place, but if you glance to the right you see the shore
slipping behind or look ahead you see two buoys apparently drifting
apart. Then you realise that the boat and the drone are going quite fast
over both the land and the water.
I also sense that you are now prepared to send your drone further away
from you over the water than was the case in your earlier videos. How
much of getting the drone to keep pace with the boat is down to your
skill as an operator and how much to the intelligence built in to the drone?
Thanks again for unlocking my memories of the California coast with your
videos, I hope it is obvious that I am enjoying them.
kind regards, Ellis.

On Mar 24, 2021, EllisMorgan wrote
(in article ):

On 23/03/2021 21:01, Savageduck wrote:
On Mar 23, 2021, hh wrote
(in ):

Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508

Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a droneg

-hh

...but are you thinking of the new DJI FPV drone, or are you thinking of one of the DJI GPS camera drones?

There are big differences, between the types which include the way they are flown, and the potential added cost due to damage to the FPV drone. Then there is the difference in image capture. That said, while I am thoroughly enjoying my Mavic Air 2, I am seriously considering buying the new FPV drone for the very different flying, and image capture experience. I highly recommend adding a drone, or two to your photography/videography tool kit.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-tr3D83t/0/b7b04eea/1920/Morro%20Bay%20Heading%20Out%20B-1920.mp4
Thanks Duck, I enjoyed that view of Morro Bay.
At about 3:28 you can see the head of a marine creature to the left of
the boat. By 3:40 you can see it swimming across behind the boat as it
slips out of the picture, just after a gull takes a hop and a skip to
get out of the way. Would that be a sea otter?

Yup! We have a pretty large group of California Sea Otters that have made Morro Bay home, and they can be found in all parts of the bay. Actually, if you look carefully at the right side of the wake you will find a second otter.

At about the the same place in the film I realised that I had over
estimated the effect of the tide in some of you earlier videos. My eye
and brain are unused watching a video when the speed of the done matches
the of the object, in this case the boat. If you concentrate on the boat
and the water around it looks as if the boat is working very hard to
stay in the same place, but if you glance to the right you see the shore
slipping behind or look ahead you see two buoys apparently drifting
apart. Then you realise that the boat and the drone are going quite fast
over both the land and the water.
I also sense that you are now prepared to send your drone further away
from you over the water than was the case in your earlier videos. How
much of getting the drone to keep pace with the boat is down to your
skill as an operator and how much to the intelligence built in to the drone?

In the case of that video all of the boat tracking was done manually. While DJI provides several different tracking features which are pretty good, unless I have something specific in mind, I look on each flight as a opportunity to improve my flying skills. I have also stopped depending on the “Return to Home� (RTH), and precision landing features by navigating back to my home point and landing manually

Thanks again for unlocking my memories of the California coast with your
videos, I hope it is obvious that I am enjoying them.
kind regards, Ellis.

I’m glad that you have enjoyed them, and have taken the time to comment.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-jcwgzMf/0/07f4013d/5K/DJI_0019-E1-5K.jpg

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Regards,
Savageduck

Savageduck wrote:
On Mar 24, 2021, EllisMorgan wrote
Savageduck wrote:
On Mar 23, 2021, hh wrote:

Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508

Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a droneg

...but are you thinking of the new DJI FPV drone, or are you thinking of one of the DJI GPS camera drones?

I have no idea. As much as I'd like to have "one more toy", the line was mostly just a joke.


There are big differences, between the types which include the way they are flown,
and the potential added cost due to damage to the FPV drone. Then there is the
difference in image capture. That said, while I am thoroughly enjoying my Mavic Air 2,
I am seriously considering buying the new FPV drone for the very different flying, and
image capture experience.

I take it that's why Bjorn Steinbekk's volcano footage was more ... call it "zoomy"?
That contrasted with your footage, where it was more obvious for when you paused
to change navigation, to correct angle/etc.

I highly recommend adding a drone, or two to your photography/videography tool kit.

The boss will probably require me to declutter around 5,000lbs of "other stuff".
Fortunately, I was able to give away an old wooden canoe earlier this year....


https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-tr3D83t/0/b7b04eea/1920/Morro%20Bay%20Heading%20Out%20B-1920.mp4

Thanks Duck, I enjoyed that view of Morro Bay.
At about 3:28 you can see the head of a marine creature to the left of
the boat. By 3:40 you can see it swimming across behind the boat as it
slips out of the picture, just after a gull takes a hop and a skip to
get out of the way. Would that be a sea otter?

Yup! We have a pretty large group of California Sea Otters that have made Morro Bay home,
and they can be found in all parts of the bay. Actually, if you look carefully at the right side
of the wake you will find a second otter.

Spotted both critters; I'm not familiar with the area to know what kind of marine mammals (otters vs seals/etc)


At about the the same place in the film I realised that I had over
estimated the effect of the tide in some of you earlier videos. My eye
and brain are unused watching a video when the speed of the done matches
the of the object, in this case the boat. If you concentrate on the boat
and the water around it looks as if the boat is working very hard to
stay in the same place, but if you glance to the right you see the shore
slipping behind or look ahead you see two buoys apparently drifting
apart. Then you realise that the boat and the drone are going quite fast
over both the land and the water.
I also sense that you are now prepared to send your drone further away
from you over the water than was the case in your earlier videos. How
much of getting the drone to keep pace with the boat is down to your
skill as an operator and how much to the intelligence built in to the drone?

In the case of that video all of the boat tracking was done manually. While DJI
provides several different tracking features which are pretty good, unless I have
something specific in mind, I look on each flight as a opportunity to improve my
flying skills.

Manual flight control would help explain my "pause" comment above. I've noticed
a similar thing when I've used my dSLR to shoot video: the basics are an "either/or"
of either compose -or- zoom, etc. Trying to do both at the same time is the next step up.

I have also stopped depending on the “Return to Home� (RTH), and precision
landing features by navigating back to my home point and landing manually

Thanks again for unlocking my memories of the California coast with your
videos, I hope it is obvious that I am enjoying them.
kind regards, Ellis.

I’m glad that you have enjoyed them, and have taken the time to comment.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-jcwgzMf/0/07f4013d/5K/DJI_0019-E1-5K.jpg

Nice image. Stills such as that (from otherwise inaccessible POV) are probably a
big part of where my initial interest lies in adding it to the toolbox.


-hh

On 24/03/2021 7:45 am, -hh wrote:
Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508


Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a drone g


-hh



Here is another:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-56512554


geoff

On 23/03/2021 21:01, Savageduck wrote:
On Mar 23, 2021, hh wrote
(in ):

Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508

Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a droneg

-hh

...but are you thinking of the new DJI FPV drone, or are you thinking of one of the DJI GPS camera drones?

There are big differences, between the types which include the way they are flown, and the potential added cost due to damage to the FPV drone. Then there is the difference in image capture. That said, while I am thoroughly enjoying my Mavic Air 2, I am seriously considering buying the new FPV drone for the very different flying, and image capture experience. I highly recommend adding a drone, or two to your photography/videography tool kit.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-tr3D83t/0/b7b04eea/1920/Morro%20Bay%20Heading%20Out%20B-1920.mp4

But with FPV you need (or at least are supposed to have) a "spotter"
which could be limiting. I'm still thinking that one of the other Mavics
might be "nice to have" but I have too many toys already and wonder how
much use that would get.

That said, I am very pleased with the Hero 9 Black, which gets more use
than I thought it would. The image stabilisation is amazing, and Night
Timelapse is very easy to use. The extra battery life is nice too.

On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 6:55:14 PM UTC-4, geoff wrote:
On 24/03/2021 7:45 am, -hh wrote:
Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508


Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a drone g


-hh

Here is another:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-56512554

Who's up for hotdogs?

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-56491584


-hh

On Mar 25, 2021, newshound wrote
(in article6dCdnXB7OuKrGcH9nZ2dnUU78IvNnZ2d@brightvie w.co.uk):

On 23/03/2021 21:01, Savageduck wrote:
On Mar 23, 2021, hh wrote
(in ):

Drone flight up ... and through the eruption

https://twitter.com/BSteinbekk/status/1374005243390869508

Okay, now I have an excuse for the wife to buy a droneg

-hh

...but are you thinking of the new DJI FPV drone, or are you thinking of one of the DJI GPS camera drones?

There are big differences, between the types which include the way they are flown, and the potential added cost due to damage to the FPV drone. Then there is the difference in image capture. That said, while I am thoroughly enjoying my Mavic Air 2, I am seriously considering buying the new FPV drone for the very different flying, and image capture experience. I highly recommend adding a drone, or two to your photography/videography tool kit.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Air-2-Work-2021/i-tr3D83t/0/b7b04eea/1920/Morro%20Bay%20Heading%20Out%20B-1920.mp4
But with FPV you need (or at least are supposed to have) a "spotter"
which could be limiting.

Correct, the general FAA rule for all UAS flight is to maintain visual line of sight (VLOS). There are some rule changes coming into effect which will change some of the flight over people, traffic, and at night restrictions, along with waivers for BVLOS or beyond line of sight. However, it is the cinematic immersive flying experience of FPV drones which is appealing, but for solo work the GPS camera drones are pretty good.

I'm still thinking that one of the other Mavics
might be "nice to have" but I have too many toys already and wonder how
much use that would get.

In about two weeks DJI is supposed to be releasing an upgrade to my drone the Mavic Air 2, the Air 2S which will offer some tweaks, and probably put the Air 2 on sale. As far as how much use you would get out of it, only you could determine that.


That said, I am very pleased with the Hero 9 Black, which gets more use
than I thought it would. The image stabilisation is amazing, and Night
Timelapse is very easy to use. The extra battery life is nice too.

Yup! a useful camera with its own particular use niche.

--
Regards,
Savageduck

On Mar 24, 2021, geoff wrote
(in ):

Here is another:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-56512554

Almost looks like it's in slo mo!

Ron, the humblest guy in town.