Last month, smoke from wildfires in northern California caused San Francisco to have the worst air quality in the world for a number of days. Here’s a 2-minute drone video that offers an eye-opening aerial look at what the city looked like during those days.
FAA 107 licensed pilot Ian Montgomery of Pre-Future took his […]. petapixel.com
Drone shots of the surfers on Llandudno beach, Cape Town, South Africa. boredpanda.com »
2018-07-26 12:01
Here’s a beautiful 2-minute short film by Raphael Boudreault-Simard of Flow Motion Aerials that shrinks kayakers and the beautiful outdoors into a miniature world using a tilt-shift effect. “We shrunk two kayakers and this happened,” writes Red Bull, which published the video. petapixel.com »
2018-01-13 22:42
Hawaiian photographer and drone pilot Karim Iliya has released a new short film titled “Wild Planet. ” It contains beautiful aerial shots of wildlife found in different corners of the world. petapixel.com »
2017-05-06 22:08
Remember Nicolas Vuignier, the skier who shot bullet time by swinging his iPhone around his head? He’s back again with another brilliant idea: he shot “poor man’s drone” footage by throwing his GoPro into the air. petapixel.com »
2017-05-05 18:00
Drone lighting is a technique that’s taking off in the world photography. After seeing photographer Reuben Wu photos of landscapes at night that were lit using an LED-equipped drone, photographers Ryland West and Paul Heran were inspired to take the technique to a new level with a project titled Highlight. Like Wu, West and Heran […] petapixel.com »
2016-11-03 18:29
If you’ve ever wonder how bright a 1,000W LED light bar can shine, drone pilot and filmmaker Daniel Riley can illuminate you. Ridley created the modified light bar, capable of churning out 90,000 lumens of light, by swapping out eBay LEDs with higher quality Yuji CRI LED chips instead. digitalrev.com »
2016-10-18 03:00
Back in 2016, photographer Phil Mosby left his camera overnight on a mountainside overlooking Lake Tahoe and had it snap photos over 9 hours. What resulted was this strangely beautiful timelapse that shows the setting moon, the Milky Way, Perseids meteors, and smoke from nearby wildfires.
San Francisco was blanketed by an apocalyptic orange sky last week due to the smoke from wildfires across California. This 24-second time-lapse shows what it was like to take off from the city and climb into the thick smoke layer.