New use for old drone

Here are some recent light paintings. They are still works in progress. The only modifications to the image was to reduce the exposure to make them darker since the long exposure was almost 12 minutes.

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The Phantom 3 Standard may not be the best drone to do light painting because there are more recent and more stable drones that would paint the images better, but if I was not using my P3S for light painting it would just be sitting unused while I fly my other newer drones. Light painting is all I do with that drone now.

Chris
 
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WOW!!

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I ran my Pumpkin Pie and Maple Leaf light painting missions again last night. They turned out better as it was a calm night with inflight wind around 8 km/h. I then cleaned up the blemishes in Photoshop for the resulting images.

Chris

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Below are a couple more light paintings done with my old Phantom 3 Standard last night. It amazes me what I can do with this old drone using Litchi and @DJ Wes's Mission utilities. I have included two screen shots of an oak leaf to show what the waypoints mission looks like before it is rotated (horizontal plane) and then after it is rotated in the vertical plane. The POI #1 is the approximate location of where my DSLR is placed to do a long exposure while the drone flies the waypoint mission in the vertical plane.

I would encourage anyone interested in Light Painting who has an old drone that can run Litchi software to give it a try. It's not that complicated once you understand the process which is documented on Wes's Mission Utilities site. The basic requirements to do something like this are: Litchi flight software, Wes's free Mission Utilities, a drone capable of using Litchi, light attachment for drone, a tripod, and a camera capable of a long exposure.

The flat version of the oak leaf:
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The rotated version:
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The results:
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Note that I cleaned up the images a bit in Photoshop - connecting segment lines or points where the lines don't exactly match up but had to do very little editing.

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