25/10/24
We've been away on one
of our regular trips to the Canary island of Lanzarote, arriving back yesterday
afternoon, so hopefully normal service at Island Images will be resumed
shortly! In the meantime, this is a stitched panorama of Playa Blanca
that I shot from the mountains slopes just below the village of Femes,
with the neighbouring island of Fuerterventura standing out clearly across
the straits.
Panasonic TZ60 8/10/24
26/10/24
I was wanting to do
some more testing using the DJI 'Fly' app to control the Air 2S, so with
what looked like suitable conditions this morning I set off for the Dhoon
Glen area to shoot some conventional pictures and 360 degree panoramas.
Unfortunately it was a bit breezy up there, gusting up to 36 MPH, which
limited what I was able to achieve, in particular 'Fly' just refused to
shoot the panorama with a 'too windy' message, so I 'hot swapped' over
to Litchi with the drone close by and shot a panorama with that.
The 'Fly' app seems to be more sensitive to gusty winds, with lots of warning
messages popping up from time to time.
DJI Air 2S 26/10/24
   
  
27/10/24
After cutting short
my flying at Dhoon Glen due to the strong and gusty winds, I was on my
way home, but when stopping to refuel the car in Laxey realised that it
was actually quite sheltered in the valley. I decided to do another
flight in Laxey Glen, again 'hot swapping' between 'Fly' and 'Litchi' as
control programs. I was a bit annoyed when reviewing the pictures
to see that I had allowed the bright white of the Laxey Wheel structure
to 'blow out', as I remember noticing that at the time, but I was concentrating
more on the trials that I was doing and didn't correct it when I could.
DJI Air 2S 26/10/24
    
    
Three 360 degree panoramas.
This is really what I was testing, the first two are from sets of 26 RAW
images shot using the DJI 'Fly' app. The final one is using the 'Litchi'
app, again 26 shots, but in 3 shot AEB, so the final panorama is compiled
from 78 images. All panoramas are stitched using PtGui.
  
29/10/24
Continuing with my tests
on different operating programs for my DJI drones. As regular visitors
will know, I always try to do these tests in areas that will also produce
some pictures for the website. These first pictures were taken on
two flights in the Groudle Glen area.
DJI Air 2S 28/10/24
    
    
   
Shooting 360 degree
panoramas with the DJI 'Fly' app is really what I've been testing.
I shot several with different techniques, but these two were
totally automatic, with
'Fly' instructing the drone to shoot the 26 JPEG pictures and then stitching
them whilst the drone is still in flight.
 
30/10/24
For some more test flying
using the DJI 'Fly' app on Monday afternoon, I headed west to St John's
to try and capture any of the autumn colours left on the trees before all
of the leaves finally blow off. It was sunny in Onchan but unfortunately
cloudy over the centre of the island, which muted the colours a bit.
DJI Air 2S 28/10/24
    
    
    
More 360 degree panoramas!
The afternoon ones were still shot using DJI 'Fly' but these are processed
post flight from the 26 RAW images captured by the drone, stitched in PtGui
and then with some final adjustments in Paint Shop Pro before uploading
to Kuula for display.
 
1/11/24
I was hoping to do some
more aerial photography tests yesterday afternoon, but the weather didn't
look too great with a heavy overcast and cloud sitting on the hills.
However, I though I'd try the north of the island and set off up the Mountain
Road, although initially it wasn't good, as I entered the cloud at Kate's
Cottage and it was solid all the way through to Bungalow. The cloud
did start to thin from there on though and passing Black Hut I emerged
into sunshine! It seemed to be an effect of the light wind blowing
over Snaefell (see satellite pic below) and I stopped at Gooseneck and
flew there to capture the following pictures and panoramas.
DJI Air 2S 31/10/24
    
    
Two stitched linear
panoramas.
 
Three 360 degree panoramas.
Shot using DJI 'Fly' but stitched in PtGui using RAW images from the drone.
  
2/11/24
After my flight near
Gooseneck, I headed down the hill into Ramsey, hoping that the sunshine
would remain. It did, but not for long.
DJI Air 2S 31/10/24
    
    
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