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As surprised as we were when we first heard of the iPhone photography awards (now entering its eighth year), we're now just as surprised to find out that there are awards for the best drone photography. But just as smartphones have become viable tools for photography in past years, drone copters are fast becoming an established photographic tool...
Ever wished your studio lights could adjust themselves, freeing you up to focus on your subject? Well, if the folks at MIT have their way, it could just happen. In a video released last Friday, they've demonstrated a prototype system for providing rim-lighting using a quadcopter, and the drone can move itself to track...
By now, you've doubtless seen the recent viral video of Nashville's July 4th celebrations, shot with a DJI Phantom quadcopter from the point of view of the fireworks themselves. The original video has been viewed tens of thousands of times since it was uploaded a week ago, and it's been widely shared elsewhere in...
Last month, we reported on news that the National Park Service had banned drones from Yosemite National Park, citing an existing regulation it felt made unmanned aerial vehicle operations illegal. While we questioned the legal basis for the statement at the time, banning multicopters and other radio-controlled aircraft...
If you're a commercial photographer or videographer intrigued by the possibilities of aerial photography from a radio-controlled multicopter or other unmanned aerial vehicle, but you're worried that the FAA could choose you as its next legal target, there's potentially some good news on the way. According to a...
Among aerial photography fans who don't have the time, knowledge or inclination to build their own multicopter, DJI's Phantom-series quadcopters have built quite a following. Before anybody had ever heard of DJI, though, French tech company Parrot was the big kid on the block -- and it's aiming to return to glory with a...
The latest salvo in the battle of the United States federal government versus public use of unmanned aerial vehicles has just been fired -- but for a change, it's not the Federal Aviation Administration pulling the trigger. Instead, it's the National Park Service that's entered the fray, making clear that it feels...
Iceland is one of these countries that we just can't get enough of. Only recently we wrote about a video taken with a drone copter in Iceland's rough yet beautiful landscapes, and now comes another film that shows off the country's breathtaking scenery. 'Crystalapse: Frozen in Timelapse' is a blend of timelapse, regular video and drone footage that...
The current legal status of using drones for photography is extremely nebulous. There has been some movement towards them being outside of the grasp of the FAA, but densely packed cities are not looking too fondly on their use, and after a crash in New York, a drone controller was arrested for reckless endangerment....
Concept cars are great. They allow designers to play with ideas and forms that would never work in the real world. Take, for instance, the new Renault Kwid, the first Renault concept unveiled outside of Europe. It has a unique design, with the driver in the middle of the front row, internal webbed seats, but most...
Aerial photos are, it seems, the next big thing in real-estate sales. Property listings are no longer just about the inside of the house, with perhaps a couple of quick snapshots from outside of the property. A photo from above can help to place it within its landscape, and in the process attract more potential...
We're reaching perilously close to peak aerial drone footage, where the sheer volume of footage taken from the skies has completely robbed them of emotional impact. Yet, even so, there are still videos that pop up every now and then that manage to wow us with their beauty. Like this footage from Roberto Serrini, which...
If there's one thing the recent spate popularity of drone photography has shown, is that if you're not careful, drones have a habit of falling out of the sky. In fact, famed photographer Chase Jarvis just experienced this first hand with a DJI Phantom and Sony RX100 II, both ending up at the bottom of an Icelandic ocean...
With the recent explosion in popularity of drone based photography and video, you're probably wondering how best to put footage from a flying machine to use. The folks at Adobe have put together an excellent, step by step video of how to take a series of images from a GoPro Hero3 on a DJI Phantom, and turn them into a...
The recent aerial drone footage of the Grand Palais in France showed us that there's something incredibly interesting about seeing the inside of a building from the view of an aerial drone. Now we have some more indoors aerial footage to drool over, this time from inside the Main Branch of the New York Public Library,...
A Phantom quadcopter will set you back all of $500, which means it's affordable enough for just about anyone to use. Unfortunately, buying one doesn't seem to automatically confer the smarts on how to fly it, or the wisdom on where to — as evidenced by a drone that crashed and almost hit man in Manhattan earlier this...
It seems like the last year or so has seen an explosion of incredible photos and video captured by aerial drones. The convergence of affordable remote-control drones, cheap, light and high-quality video recorders, and excellent stabilization means it doesn't take much to be able to send a hexacopter skywards to capture...
So, we've been covering the phenomenon of photographers using affordable DJI Phantom quadcopter drones to shoot aerial footage for a few months now but, as expected, it doesn't always end in success.
Take the case of a YouTube user who goes by the handle "WeddingMan123." He says he used a DJI Phantom with a GoPro...
I've been covering the trend of photographers using RC (radio-controlled) mini helicopters to shoot aerial footage for a number of years now, but I haven't seen anything yet like the phenomenon of the DJI Phantom quadcopter.
The main reason for the explosion of popularity behind these GoPro-friendly, four-propellered,...
The DJI Phantom is quickly becoming the quadcopter of choice for capturing low-cost but impressive aerial footage of the world. Along with being relatively inexpensive aerial drones -- DJI Phantoms retail for about $679 -- they're designed to be used with relatively inexpensive GoPro action cameras.
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