I am an avid user of various photo websites, the main one I use, even though not the best is Instagram, there is one guy on there that goes out with his drone and uses a Lumecube to light up subjects and gets really unique shots.
The photographer uses a DJI Air 2S for this (as far as I'm lead to believe), however I only had the DJI Mini 3 Pro at the time, in which wouldn't be strong enough to put a lumecube on there.
Anyhow, I've now updated drones and now own the DJI Mini 4 pro, it's the same size as the mini 3, however one thing it does have is a light built into it.
(Drone light photoshopped out of the above shot)
I thought I would just see how bright the light is, as I'd only seen it through the day, so I took the drone on the back garden and shot a few test shots using a long exposure on my camera.
I have to say that I was blown away by the brightness, it also gave a kind of fairy tale calming light over the garden, it was such lovely light I didn't want to land the drone lol.
As of now though, Storm Babet has hit us and it's been raining for what must be the past 7 or 8 hours and still more to come, we have flood alerts all over the town and even country, there's a lot of rain in this one, so I'm hoping that we have some calm after the storm so I can carry out some of the awesome shots I have planned.
I really hope you like this post, and even the test shots that I made, keep checking for future posts where I'm using the drone to light up the place, I really can't wait to do this.
Thanks for reading,
All the best :-)
i just saw someone doing a steel wool (think it is steel wool) shots with a drone. feels kinda crazy and i am not sure what is the severability of the drone :) maybe my Mini 1 will sacrifice his life for a shot like that :)
Lol I won't be trying that, want to keep my drone and not break it lol
my mini 1 survived some like 1 month on a tree, so maybe i will risk it :D
Superb! the shots look great. Magical and like an illustration from a modern Enid Blyton style tale of fairies and pixies! Look forward to seeing more.
Have a great weekend and stay out of the rain!
Which just made me wonder, can you fly in the rain? Especially with the light would be magical!
Thanks ever so much, it certainly was a surreal light, as for flying in the rain, it's a big no no, the drones aren't waterproof or anything so would certainly get damaged from doing it.