The Taller View

[AlanLichty]

One of the more fun aspects to shooting with DJI's Mavic 4 Pro drone is the ability to rotate the lens to shoot in portrait mode rather than always shooting with a landscape orientation. This is especially useful for large scale panoramas like a seriously nice sunset like I saw a few nights ago. I posted a four panel sunset panorama using landscape mode a couple of days ago and a few minutes after I shot that sequence I rotated the camera to portrait mode and shot this six panel panorama to include a lot more sky and foreground in the image.

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C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

Oh man Alan! I love this one a lot! I's so cool how the orange is hitting those smaller clouds scattered across the sky.

I am going to name this a Shotgun Sunset!

You can thank me later.

 

[AlanLichty]

Oh man Alan! I love this one a lot! I's so cool how the orange is hitting those smaller clouds scattered across the sky.

I am going to name this a Shotgun Sunset!

You can thank me later.

Thanks Jim - good descriptor for this one. The only downside to portrait mode shooting with the Mavic 4 Pro is a limitation of +10º upward for the gimbal so this is as far up as I could point the camera. There were lots more of the little puffy clouds directly above me that couldn't be included.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Quite an intense sunset. Nice textures and of course the color show.

I haven’t done much with the portrait orientation yet. There isn’t a lot of interest in the ground layer when I fly above the home.

 

[AlanLichty]

Quite an intense sunset. Nice textures and of course the color show.

I haven’t done much with the portrait orientation yet. There isn’t a lot of interest in the ground layer when I fly above the home.

Thanks Jameel - The limitation on upward motion of the gimbal definitely puts some constraints on when this feature is useful. In this case the gimbal is pushed right up to the +10º limit and still includes more of the ground than what I wanted. It's not as bad with the 70mm lens but at 28mm the local neighborhoods get a lot more real estate in my frame than I would like in portrait mode. Portrait mode is wonderful up in the Gorge shooting waterfalls since the subject is vertical in the first place. I am almost always using portrait mode in panorama sequences to get a little more horizontal space in my frame than I would get with a single shot..