Want to make your drone pictures more exiting?

Silas Willoughby
Nov 29, 2016
2 min read

Are you tired of your drone pictures looking like this:

I mean, sure it's a little higher off the ground, but you could get the same picture from your upstairs balcony! So how do you turn those into these:

This is taken from the same place, but a different angle, higher, and straight down. Looking straight down, otherwise known as a bird's eye, makes your picture seem a lot more professorial and awe inspiring. This angle makes viewers sure the picture was taken from the air and leaves them wondering how it was done. You would be surprised that most people would assume you had a helicopter to take that kind of image, witch adds a whole lot of production value to your image.

When you first go to buy your drone, you have huge pictures in your head of what you're going to do as soon as you get it. You picture yourself piloting long flights, and taking amazing pictures at exotic locations. The truth is, when you first get your drone, you're going to be at very non-exotic home, and on your first flight you will be paranoid to go over 30 feet away and above.

Therefore, the first step to changing your pictures is to be CONFIDENT! You can't do anything more helpful than that. Start by realizing that your drone has its own GPS and will return if you lose signal, so don't worry about that. I also learned that after doing these long flights, it's a lot easier to comfortably fly at least 300 feet. Sure you won't see your drone, but that's what the smartphone on your controller is for! Once you get up there you don't really have to worry about crashing into things, or how fast you fly. You're free to fly in any direction as long as your signal reaches.

"But how do I land from that high?"

This was a problem for me the first time I did this as well! On your smartphone screen everything seems so small from way up there, even your huge yard seems like a tough landing. Unless it is really windy or there is a storm going on, I've found the easiest thing to do is just to use the GPS and let it return to home and then land from there, or when it gets close. Make sure you stop watching your screen when you gt about 200 feet away, it is definitely easier and safer to use your eyes. The best way to do your first few flights is to launch straight up and don't stop until you are at least 300 feet up, then it is too late for you to get cold feet! Once you get up there enjoy the view, take some panoramas, fly around a bit to get confident, then land. Having that under your belt will give you a lot of confidence going forward.