Drones Have Not Only Taken Digital Cameras To High Altitudes; Rather, They Have Given Wings To The Creative Minds Of Photographers.

Thanks to drones equipped with powerful and efficient cameras, capturing amazing aerial images have become much more manageable. Suppose we carefully plan to record a beautiful and challenging moment with a unique artistic effect and use the most advanced intelligent editing tools. In that case, we can expand the boundaries of creativity in creating that effect with the help of drones.

In this article, we have brought ten images recorded by drones in 2018, which surprised us the most, as selected by Digital Photography Review.

Reuben Wu

This image was selected from the Lux Noctis archive of artist and musician Reuben Wu. Using a drone equipped with a high-power DIY LED light source, Wu managed to record the halos of light over the Vermillion Rocks of Arizona at night.

He used a mid-range digital camera to record this photo, and with the help of a drone that controlled both the camera and the flight simultaneously, he raised it to the height of the top of those rocks.

Fabien Barrau

French photographer and graphic designer Fabian Barao have tried to create a suspension between reality and fantasy in the viewer’s eyes by combining photos recorded by the DJI Mavic Pro drone and archival photos.

Looking at the phenomenon of pareidolia, he mixes the elements in the landscape to create the image of the animal’s face. After sixty hours of work with Photoshop, Barao managed to make this owl’s appearance using natural elements.

Martin Sanchez

This image was recorded in Tanzania by the Mavic 2 Pro drone. What makes the idea of this group of hippos stand out and distinguish is that with only one drone, you can get close to these animals to such a height without disturbing their natural state.

Mole Advertising Center (Mole Media)

Danny is an Australian-born drone pilot who works at Mall’s advertising agency. Legendary photographer Demas Rusli first discovered his talent. It should be mentioned that Rosselli himself has recorded a similar photo.

Using a Mavic Pro drone, he captured this image from an intersection in Penrose Park. The idea is in RAW format, and with the help of Photoshop, seasons and layers of other objects and clouds have been added to it. The result of this image is a visualization of four seasons in one day.

Reed Plummer

This photo, which shows a circular gathering of salmon on Wembral Beach in New South Wales, was taken at once, and no manipulations or corrections were applied.

Marc Le Cornu

This photo was recorded using the Phantom 4 Pro drone, and the ISO was set to 100, the shutter speed was set to one-thousandth of a second, and the aperture was set to 0.8. For a long time, the photographer wanted to capture an aerial image of his boat, So after all the timing to use the light and the correct position, he flew his drone from the high rock near the pier and, with great effort, brought it to the top of the boat as the boat approaches the anchorage and records this moment.

Due to the speed of the boat moving at that place, there was only a special moment for him to capture a complete picture of his ship. When he started editing it with Lightroom, he realized that this image was similar to a spaceship. He even devised manipulating it to look like a rocket launching. This is how the final painting turned out to be beautiful with the addition of several layers, including stars and splashes of light, in Photoshop.

Henry Do

This photographer took photos with the Mavic Pro Platinum drone in auto bracketing mode. The process of recording these images was in such a way that it was first recorded from a view of the horizon and with a straight angle. Then, little by little, the camera recorded new shots with a more significant rise than the previous mode until the camera was entirely placed towards the ground and at an angle of 90 degrees compared to the first mode.

Using Photoshop and Lightroom, Henry Du merged all these images, and then, by creating and re-merging two separate pieces of the city of Barcelona, ​​night and day, he made this final image.

Micah Fitch

He captured this fantastic image of the rocket recently launched by Space X using the Inspire 2 drone equipped with a Zenmuse X5S camera and an Olympus 25mm lens with an aperture of 1.8. He quickly recorded three shots in a ratio of 4:3 and merged the image vertically so that 30% of the edge of each picture was placed on top of the other.

In addition to the rocket itself, the photographer wanted to depict the beach of the Huntington pier to show the scale and extent of this event. Mika has combined three files in RAW format using Lightroom’s panorama function, so this integration is not noticeable at first glance. His main intention was to show precisely what he saw with his own eyes with the help of this editing and manipulation.

Costas Spatis

This photo was recorded with the Mavic Pro drone, and its settings are sensitivity set to 100, shutter speed set to 35, and aperture 0.4. The main shot is a straight row of ships located on one of the calm beaches of Greece.

Spots used Photoshop’s Polar Coordinates tool to create this effect and make it look like this. Most of his works are sea-themed, and he is interested in symmetry.

Kristina Makeeva

The photos of Kristina Makieva, a photographer based in Russia, are like magic. He often gives surreal effects to images using Photoshop.

In addition to placing a person in a yellow raincoat in the middle of a road surrounded by trees full of autumn leaves to draw the viewer’s attention, what makes this photo stand out is the unique composition that he created using the Phantom 4 drone’s automatic settings with minimal manipulation. It has been achieved. This photo was recorded in the Ontario region near Toronto in Canada.