Light painting

TDoodle · May 27, 2016

Has anyone done any long exposure photography with their dSLR and flown their drone in the shot to get the camera to pick up the light that comes from the drone?

Phantom fool · May 28, 2016

A drone selfie?

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cheebs · May 28, 2016

I think he's talking about this
to do this:

thunderbird · May 28, 2016

TDoodle said:
Has anyone done any long exposure photography with their dSLR and flown their drone in the shot to get the camera to pick up the light that comes from the drone?

You mean something like this

gavcuk · May 28, 2016

Here is my effort.

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TDoodle · May 28, 2016

thunderbird said:
You mean something like this
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Exactly like this. I'm hoping to do some soon.....It just needs to not be so **** WINDY!!!!!
Geez!

peterepeat69 · May 28, 2016

gavcuk said:
Here is my effort.

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What cam did you use and how long you keep the shutter open?

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gavcuk · May 29, 2016

peterepeat69 said:
What cam did you use and how long you keep the shutter open?

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GoPro Hero 4 Silver using Night Mode with shutter open for 15 seconds

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66Fury · May 29, 2016

peterepeat69 · May 29, 2016

gavcuk said:
GoPro Hero 4 Silver using Night Mode with shutter open for 15 seconds

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Awesome stuff, nice pic

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Toph · May 29, 2016

Super cool shots. Thanks for posting

TDoodle · May 30, 2016

Ya! Nice work. As soon as I get around to it (and if they turn out) I'll end up posting it/them

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zander lane · May 31, 2016

...started experimenting with dragging some light tubes about:

...but after analyzing the flights on healthy drones I noticed I was scorching the engines at like 150 degrees - I will be trying to come up with lighter lights for future painting flights...I think over still water would be a good tableaux with lots of reflections...