Traveling on airlines with your drone and batteries – What are the rules? The popularity of drones is booming. The newer DJI Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic Air 2, and Mini 2 drones are easily accessible to the masses for recreation and commercial use. The Official DJI Owners Facebook Group has grown to 114,000 members. Heck, […] The post appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

Our brains work in mysterious ways to adjust to what our eyes see. Our brains translate real-world images to us so that we see the world without visual distortion. We rarely notice an effect called converging lines when we see it in 3D with our own two eyes. But when we view the same scene […] The post Converging Lines: A Drone Photographer’s Perspective appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

Drone Photography – Working on the Dark Side Shooting at first light or twilight will add mood to your photograph – don’t spoil that mood with technically perfect exposure values. Allow the intended mood of the photograph to determine the shape of your histogram. If the photo you made is  low key, or of a […] The post Working on the Dark Side appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

Niche-market photography has become a necessity for professionals to survive in today’s overcrowded market. A couple of years back, just being a drone photographer was in fact a very unique niche of its own. Not so much anymore. Now in 2020 we see many skilled aerial image creators living and working within our own zip […] The post Develop Your Niche with Drone Photography appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

Editing video can feel like performing brain surgery – at least for dedicated still photographers. Recently the delineation of the skillset between still photography and videography has become fuzzy. Video creation skills are a necessary evil for photographers now, just as making a good still photograph is important for a videographer. Our DJI drones have […] The post Editing Your Very First Drone Video appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

As a career-long photographer, it has occurred to me countless times that water is an exceptionally attractive subject to capture with a camera. Water photographs are wildly popular with any audience. Even prior to the invention of the camera, water was painted into the vast majority of landscapes by the artist. A simple shoreline scene […] The post Photographing Water from Your Drone Above appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

Shooting and editing video can be brain surgery, at least for dedicated still photographers. Recently the delineation between a still photographer and a videographer has become fuzzy. Video imagery is a necessary evil now, just as making a good still image is important for a videographer. Our DJI drones have fantastic video capabilities and we […] The post Mavic 2 Pro Video Settings – Demystified (Part 3) appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

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Image size 4:3, 3:2, or 16:9 – there is plenty of uncertainty around this particular camera menu setting in the DJIGo4 app. What do all those numbers mean, and which is our wise option? The app menu name image size may be misleading in itself, as it might be assumed by the drone operator that the larger […] The post Image Size 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9 for Drone Photography? appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more

Drone photographs captured over water are filled with drama and never-before-seen views of the planet around us. We see marine life, shoreline, and the spectacle of contrasting elements.  Flying a drone from a boat is especially challenging and requires a great deal of care and pre-consideration if you don’t want to say goodbye to your […] The post Flying Your Drone from a Boat appeared first on DJI Aerial Photo Academy ..read more