One Day One Shot

Working with drones for 3D reconstruction only felt boring. So I'll try myself with some artistic shots and collect some corner stone pieces here.

My first project. Doing a new drone shot: The Helix.

Since one month I got the Mavic Mini to get some feeling on the object that I am programming software for since 3 years. With Zeynep we already had a surprisingly well dronie/rocket shot at Lake Geneva.

As we were in the woods, a helix or circle shot was not really possible. For that now we went to the fields of Ecublens and shot a nice little clip of our neighbourhood.

One technical thing learned: Downloading footage from the DJI Mini is not straightforward.

Next time I hopefully get the footage in full resolution before deleting it ...

The next experiment: a little bit more complex with several shots at the Col des Otanes. Reverting flights, straight lines and circles work really well. Manual drone maneuvering is hard to get smooth. Maybe a waypoint app will help with that. Also I finally found the function to get higher quality out of the Mavic Mini.