Hi, and welcome to this main section on advanced aerial shooting. So now that hopefully you've got a basic understanding of all the fundamentals of photography and videography, we can get into how to actually translate that into what movements you need to do on your drawing to get those sort of results, and what some simple shots and even some more advanced shots that you can do, to really sort of pique people's interest and go from just having a, you know, plain old regular shot of flying forward to something that's a little more interesting, but also, you know, quite simple and some other advanced ones as well. So to begin with, the very first thing that I want to know is focus. Now it may seem a bit silly to go on about this, but for something like the spark or even the Phantom four You don't really have to worry about this too much because they autofocus.

But with the Phantom four pro and the maverick Pro, they actually have their autofocus and manual focus mode, then you can sort of make the mistake of accidentally recording or taking photos and whatnot out of focus. It's very difficult to tell because when you're flying and you got your little phone here in your, you know, money up your shot, and you're like, Oh, yeah, that looks fantastic. And you start recording, you don't actually realize it until you get back on your computer again, you know, maybe the next day or the night or something. And it's a lot of focus and completely ruined. You know, it's very annoying. I've done it numerous times.

So the best thing that I found to do is even if its own automatic focus, just before you start actually taking your shot and you know you've lined it up and you're ready to press record or press the take a photo button. Just record Focus, just tap in the middle of that screen and wait for it to readjust and re auto focus and you'll hear a little beep, saying that it's actually gained focus. And then you know, you're perfectly fine, you've done everything you can possibly do to make sure it's in focus, and hit that record button and start going through your life. So that's one of the main points that I want to make in regards to focus, especially for the medic part and the fourth part. Next, I want to go over the actual tilting of the camera. So on the actual camera, you've got your gimbal and you've got manual control of it.

So this isn't in any advanced maneuvers, well, we did cover them as well. But all this is actual manual flying. So it's good to know, manual fly as well as using those intelligent flight modes. But when you're manually controlling the gimbal, up and down, you've got to make sure that it is smooth, so When on the controller, pull down or push up to tilt the camera up or down, depending on which way you've got it configured, you need to make sure that that movement is very, very slow. And when you're looking at it on your screen, you think that it's slow and you think, Oh yeah, that looks, you know, fantastic. I'm just, you know, maybe I'm tilting around this way if I'm actually flying the drone, or maybe I'm tilting the camera down this way you can go either way.

But whichever way you're moving or tilting, if you're recording video must be as slow and as smooth as possible. So besides the fact that you don't want the quick, you know, jaded, moving of switching from one side to the other, and I'll show some quick footage here. What I'm talking about, this is what it results in when you quickly change from left to right or up or down and you get this jerky motion that just quite frankly looks atrocious in terms of footage and will probably end up making people feel sorry. Who's watching your video, but you just, it's horrible. You don't want to don't. Besides from that, if you are actually tilting smoothly or rotating smoothly or tilting up and down smoothly, you also want to make sure that it is slow enough.

So if you do it too fast, everything's just gonna blur out and it's just gonna look again, very poor, very amateurish, you don't want to do it. So again, I'll show you another example here. This is too fast, and you can probably tell and you want to have it look a little bit more likely so it's nice and smooth, slow and you can actually see the footage that's being displayed, and it's all nice and proper. So, what I would recommend that you do is don't fly, tilt up and down, you know strafe left or right or fly left or right while you're turning around and recording. And to see and keep in mind how slow Are you turning that camera how slow you turn the light gimbal whatever it is that you're doing, then go back home, download the footage, watch it on a big screen and sort of see what that actual movement translates to in terms of footage, and try and learn how slow is slow because it seems like an absolute snail's pace by default, when you're actually, you know, really gently moving the gimbal down, it'll seem very slow and almost boring sort of thing.

But when you actually watch the video footage on the screen, it looks very professional, very smooth, and but it's what you actually want, what most people want when they're filming their footage. So, once you've done that, you want to get some type of shot. So a lot of people they might just fly forward and that can also I can certainly produce some fantastic shots. But there are other types of shots that are Simple that you can do to make things look nice. So, when you're, you know, taking videos and photos and things, sure you might have your subject in mind and you know exactly what you want to shoot, but how should you shoot it? You know, should you just fly straight towards it?

Should you fly up or, you know, which way should you go. So I just wanted to show you a couple of different types of filming shots that you can use and how that translates to the actual controls on a controller to demonstrate how you want to do each of those shots. So to begin with, this is one of the very simple shots and all it is is just rising in altitude or you can lower but by the way, it gives a fantastic result as you can see. So this is just a shot of the mountains in Iceland. And all it is is rising up in altitude You know, there's no fancy flying or you know, spinning around or doing somersaults or anything like that. But it still gives a fantastic view, you have time to really take in the scenery to appreciate what it is.

You can, you know, have it for a number of seconds and not get bored. You've got a little fancy car, whatever it is driving around, and it also adds a little bit of interest as well. It's just a very nice relaxing shot and it's not doing anything fancy with the journey. In fact, all I'm simply doing is pushing the ascent stick so this is similar to obviously, but you want to push it slightly up very, very slowly keep a sustained paces it again, you don't want to be going up and slowing down and up faster and slowing down. You want to go off at a slow pace and just keep that speed constant for a number of seconds as you film. It may seem even a little bit boring just during the actual phone but it will result in great photography.

So next up a bunch of slightly more complicated ones. There is one other slightly simple one. And that is kind of in between between simple and complicated, but rather than simply flying up or down, what you can do is point the camera directly down to looking down over your subject or some sort of scenery or river man or whatever it might be. And rather than just flying up and down, as we're doing before you actually fly up or down. whilst you're spinning around like this. This is very simple as well.

So again, rather than flying up or down like that, what you want to do is pull or get a certain speed up or down going. So for instance, pushing up, you want to hold it there so you've got a continuous speed going up, and then you just slightly put left or right depending on which way you want to spin. So if I wanted to up and spin out slightly go up and then pool to my left there. And what that results in is the drone flying up while it spins around. So demonstrate here, but rather than just flying straight up like this, it'll fly off while slowly rotating around like so. And that results in this sort of style video.

Now, as you can see, it's just a nice sort of effect. Nothing super special, but it's a good shot that you can have in there and fill other certain scenes. So the next one is this particular shot here, which is again from a trip to Iceland, and it is a gravel road and then the car enters and exits it. And what this is, is basically a good way to storytelling now. It may not be As close as that video was, but you're essentially holding over a certain spot and having your subject into in exam or they may not exit out, they may simply entering the continue inside that sort of thing. Again, it gives a bit of interest because you've got, you know, you first see the background and appreciate the scenery and all that sort of stuff.

But then something else comes in, which keeps that interest going and really just keeps you entertained, basically. So here's another example on St Kilda beach. So you can see the beach and it looks all pretty, and then a woman starts walking in so he can actually get a bit more, you know, entertainment out of it sort of thing as it comes through and it just again, thanks for a very nice shot. So to perform that shot, again, it's very simple in terms of the controls that you're actually doing. You can obviously just set up and get ready for your shop and have that subject in In an interrupt, you may not actually even do anything, you might not move the drawing at all, it's just waiting and holding that position and waiting for the subject to come into it. You can also do other simple ones where you strafe left or right, and boster doing it very, very slowly.

So you're almost sort of standing still and holding that frame, that there is still a slight bit of movement to sort of help that subject come into the frame a bit quicker. So that's another very simple, you know, physical thing to do with your drone, but it gives a very advanced sort of visual shot when actually recorded and showed in the video. So next up is actually striping whilst turning the camera. This one can get a little bit more complicated, but with a bit of practice it becomes quite simple. So you can see an example of it here where we're looking again at sand to the beach, and were flying in one direction whilst the camera is being tilted in a different direction. So, what that entire was is obviously Australian, so you're either flying left, flying left or right.

And that is the drone actually, you know, rather than spinning around locked up, it will actually they line striping left or right wallets continuously flying, for instance rot tomorrow, you want to actually turn the camera around like that. So it's almost sort of doing this orbit type thing but not quite. And it can get a little bit more complicated as I said with the sticks because you're doing multiple, two sticks at the same time as opposed to just flying up or flying up and spinning. You want to say fly left and then tilt right so you're switching so you're flying left as well as turning around like that exaggerated, but flying along and turning at the same time. And this gives another very nice effect as here's another example you can see of Iceland again, and this one is looking at the ocean. So you can see just a very nice slight tilt.

And it just gives that dynamic of almost two different movements simultaneously, which is what don't. And again, it just keeps things interesting. Although we're filming a purely static ocean or static page, it gives it a bit of movement and interest into it. So that's another fantastic way that you can keep people's interest in keep them entertained while they're actually filming. Next up, we have another relatively simple one which can give fantastic results, which is just a simple overhead shot. So I know a lot of these shots might sound like they're very simple and the, you know, you might want to try more advanced things we've spinning around in all directions.

But to be honest, even though you might want to try those more advanced ones, sometimes the simplest shots actually look the best. It's the refinement of these simple shots that really give professional quality to your photos and to your videos. Rather than trying to do something wildly fancy that just doesn't work and looks very amateurish. So do try these simple ones. First, not only are they easier, but they will give you more pure, better results, I believe most of the time. So this one is simply flying overhead.

And again, it may just be as simple as flying straight, or sorry, flying straight up flying up flying straight. And with the camera face down or maybe even up at an angle or something like that, for these ones because you're not really introducing a huge amount of movement, you know, you're not flying left and panning rod at the same time or something like that. You want to try and have something with the subject it's actually moving on to Doing something so I'm on top. In this case, I've done it with a waterfall. So what is obviously moving, it's also a fantastic shot to do when there's waves coming in on the beach. But as you can see here again, you know, Iceland trip, it gives a fantastic result, even though I'm literally just pressing forward and flying forward.

You can also tilt a little, sorry, very tight a little as well. But I wouldn't be doing full spins all the way around just a slight tilt, very, very slight tilt will get you some good results there. This next one is probably one of the most complicated ones I recommend doing this once you sort of mastered all the other ones because there are quite a number of dials and buttons sorry dolls and controls you need to be doing simultaneously. You also need to be able to perform all three of them very smooth. So what this entails is flying backwards or flying forward or flying backwards. fall backwards and down or some combination of that, whilst at the same time pulling the gimbal up or down.

So you can do this one way or the other, you can reverse it in post production both ways. Excellent. And this is more for the start or the ending of the actual video that you model produced, or just a very nice reveal shot. A lot of the time you'll see it in videos and movies where they will, you know, into the same amount of flying over a big ocean and they'll be looking down and they'll slowly 10 upwards and that will sort of bring you into the movie or into the show whatever it is. This is the same thing. So you want to be flying forward, which is this controller here.

Again, you want to be starting off I like to start off flying forward and just get back down pat, you can hold it in at that controlled steady right. Once you're flying forward. You can even add in vertical or vertical going up or down descent or ascent. So that way you're essentially flying along and slowly rising out as you're flying along. And that's sort of two sections of flight. And then you want to adjust your gimbal up and down slowly so you're essentially doing this kind of stuff with your hands you controlling all three of the things which is why it gets quite a bit complicated to time the ball and get the image in frame and all that sort of stuff, but it gives fantastic results.

So this is an example of doing it backwards. Essentially, I actually flew this backwards I didn't reverse it. Again, we're in Iceland, so this is flying backwards, as well as flying up as the gimbal is moving upwards towards the ocean and revealing the beautiful scenery. So that is a fantastic result. And then doing it in the reverse way. You can have a look at this one.

Which is again from Iceland. And here we're flying forwards, we're not actually flying up or down, we're just flying forward, quite decent speed. And we've got the gimbal, again from going down, looking upwards. And you can use these for as I said, either entering into the video editing a video or in the middle of it, it doesn't really matter. But it is a very nice shot to have in your repertoire. And it is a bit more complicated because you're doing multiple things at the same time, but fantastic one to practice and see if you can get good at it.

And finally, one of the last sort of shots or tips that I can give you this, again, is what I was talking about before with the foreground, middle ground and background and this is utilizing things that are actually up close to you or in the middle ground and not just taking videos and photos of things that are far off in the distance to keep things interesting field viewers So in this shot here, you can see that we start behind the hill and we slowly rise up to show the beautiful scenery and cars of driving alone. And that helps give you a sort of fuel perspective of how big this whole area is and how big those mountains are in the background. So it's a very, again, a very simple physical thing to do. All you're doing is pushing up stick and rising up. And it's about knowing where to actually take the shots from and knowing how to take good photography and videography.

So it's not all about the flying of the actual drone, you've got to have the knowledge behind make sure that you're in correct light, you're not facing the sun that you're doing composure and balanced properly, and it all adds up to a fantastic show. And that's what practices and that shot there was again in Iceland, but as a very simple with good result and you can do this with trees and In front of you, you can do this with houses in front of you, you can do it in reverse so you can have beautiful scenery. And then as you lower down, perhaps a beautiful house comes into view in front or maybe some people in front of you taking videos off. So those are just a few of the ways that you can utilize return using relatively simple commands and controls on the actual controller to get very advanced aerial photography and videography result.

And one other thing you can do, you can do any of these that I've mentioned before, but also drop the framerate, so increase the frame rate. So when you usually have a drone or a camera, you usually have two things. You've got the resolution, which I explained before can be HD for Hd 4k, and then you've got the frame rate, so it might be 30 frames per second 60 frames per second. You can kind of either have one or the other. You can have a very High, you know, resolutions I like 4k, but it's probably only going to be about 30 frames per second technology is getting better and getting higher and with the absolute latest Phantom four per you can get 60 frames per second at 4k. But generally the cheaper you guys will have lower resolution and also lower frames per second.

So you can do all those shots and I was talking about before, but just make it in a high frames per second so you can get that super slow mo effect coming out of it. Unfortunately, you will have to probably reduce your resolution down from 4k. Even on the Phantom four pro as I said you'll only get 60 frames per second which will give you sort of half speed slow mode, which is not bad. But for slow mo you generally want like 120 frames per second or something so you'll have to pull that down to at least the full HD or the HD for the Phantom four per se Phantom four pro does HD and four HD. So that's 720 P and 1080 t at that 120 frames per second, which is fantastic. That's awesome slow motion, you can get some great results with it for the maverick perf, it can do not in six frames per second at full HD or 10 ATP, and can do 120 frames per second slo mo at that haich D, which is the 720 P, the digital Spark, unfortunately, only has the one setting of 1080 p at 30 frames per second.

So, if you're wanting to do those slower sort of shots, you'll obviously have to make sure you have the Mavic Pro or the Phantom four series drones, but otherwise, you can get some fantastic results with them. And during those shots, even if you don't have super slow No, the ultimate thing that you have to do is practice and then practicing in and then have a look on YouTube or what other people are doing try and replicate To practice it again, practice it again, just fly the drone as much as possible, you'll get much, much better at it, especially with those ones that are using multiple stick combinations. You know, if you're not particularly confident at flying straight at a constant speed and rotating smoothly at a constant speed, then you're never going to be able to do those more advanced ones that require multiple things at once.

But as that other stuff becomes second nature to, then you can start doing the more complicated ones with multiple sort of things. Just remember, as I said, the more advanced you go, the more likely it is that it probably won't actually look that fantastic. Not an absolute rule, but just as a general thing that I've noticed, you know, the more simple you know, flying up or flying to the side or that sort of stuff or rotating slowly. Those sorts of things not being too fancy generally give the most professional and nice looks and if you look at any of the professional Music videos or you know, GoPro videos or something if they have helicopter footage or something, you'll probably notice that they're not doing anything fancy. They're not doing, you know, somersaults whilst simultaneously videoing someone doing a surfboard ride or something like that, because you get distracted from it.

They want to make you focus on whatever it is that they're filming, say, a surfboard or something. And they might do some fancy panning down and around stuff. But that being said, that's a pretty basic move. It's just the drone, you know, flying down and moving around slightly. So with simple movements, you can get fantastically powerful and advanced aerial shots. So keep that in mind.

Practice a lot, and we'll move on to the next section, which is