Small Stacks

[AlanLichty]

A view of some small sea stacks as seen from directly above. I was fascinated by the view of the waves breaking onto the stacks when viewed from this angle. Taken with my old Mavic Air 2 drone near Brookings, Oregon.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Kurt Harrigan]

Unique view for this, Alan. I like the color scheme here. Are you able to run longer exposures for something like this if you wanted to?

 

[AlanLichty]

Unique view for this, Alan. I like the color scheme here. Are you able to run longer exposures for something like this if you wanted to?

Thanks Kurt - longer exposures is pretty much a roll of the dice since you aren't on a solid platform while hovering. I have had exposures as long as 2 seconds work when the air is almost perfectly still but for every one that worked there were 5-10 that showed motion blur. Out over open water like this shot it is quite rare to have perfectly still wind conditions and especially during the non-summer months.

The drones do a fantastic job of stabilizing the camera platform between the gyros handling the props and the camera gimbal but everything is kept in trim by the onboard motion sensors. All well and fine until you think about the fact that motion sensors don't do anything until they detect motion which means your long exposure already has motion blur if the shutter is open.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Your old drone did a pretty good job of capturing this. Love the colors in this one.

 

[AlanLichty]

Your old drone did a pretty good job of capturing this. Love the colors in this one.

Thanks Jameel - with the right light (and denoise help from DxO) it could capture some nice images. I stumbled into this old shot while looking through some of the images I took scouting along the southern Oregon coastline a couple of years ago. I am trying to scout out a new excursion to focus on a retake of the OR coastline south of Bandon and down to the CA border with the 3 Pro.