Learning Aerial Photography with Drones

Course details

Add a new perspective to your photography: use drones to shoot aerial stills and dramatic panoramas. Create beautiful artwork for the office, capture a remodel or construction project, or shoot dramatic natural vistas from a bird's eye view. In this course, Rich Harrington and Francis Torres take to the skies using DJI Phantom and Mavic drones. They step you through the rules and regulations for drone flying, then explain preflight best practices, strategies for taking off and landing, and location scouting techniques. Rich and Francis highlight shooting strategies for single-image stills, multi-image panoramas, videos, and HDR images. They also show you Lightroom and Photoshop techniques for post-processing aerial images.

Note: This course was created by RHED Pixel. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - What you'll learn in this course
02 - Who is this course for

1. Before You Fly

03 - Understanding your country's regulations
04 - Respecting no-fly zones
05 - Securing permission from property owners
06 - Flying with a two-person team
07 - Making sure your drone is registered
08 - Taking your drone on a commercial airline
09 - Understanding weather conditions that affect flight
10 - Preflight checklist

2. Essential Flight Techniques for Photographers

11 - Takeoff and landing strategies
12 - Hovering in place
13 - Positioning the camera
14 - Composition strategies
15 - Monitoring remotely

3. Shooting Raw Photos

16 - File format and recording options
17 - Choosing the right exposure
18 - Shooting with filters
19 - Creating a custom lens profile for your camera

4. Safe Landings

20 - Establishing a landing zone
21 - When to land

5. Developing Raw Images

22 - Essential developing strategies for photos in Lightroom
23 - Removing lens distortion
24 - Sending the image to Photoshop
25 - Enhancing the image with filters
26 - Noise reduction and sharpening

6. Shooting Panoramic Images from a Drone

27 - Configuring your drone for panoramic images and essential apps
28 - Shooting strategies for panoramic images

7. Developing Panoramic Images

29 - Essential developing strategies for panoramic images in Lightroom
30 - Removing lens distortion
31 - Enhancing the image with filters
32 - Noise reduction and sharpening for panoramics
33 - Merging tough panoramic images in Photoshop
34 - Merging 360-degree panoramic images in Photoshop
35 - Merging 360-degree panoramic images in PTGui
36 - Adding 360-degree sky in Photoshop

8. Shooting HDR Images from a Drone

37 - Configuring your drone for HDR images
38 - Shooting strategies for HDR images

9. Developing HDR Images

39 - Essential developing strategies for HDR images in Lightroom
40 - Removing ghosting from HDR images
41 - Noise reduction and sharpening for HDR images
42 - Enhancing the image with filters
43 - Merging tough HDR images with Photomatix Pro
44 - Merging tough HDR images with Aurora

Conclusion

45 - Next steps