After using light-equipped drones to illuminate landscapes and create halos over rock pinnacles, photographer Reuben Wu is back with another creative drone light-painting photo series. Titled Aeroglyph, the photos show glowing symbols hovering over waters.
All the symbols are traced during long-exposure photos using a distant drone that’s carrying a lighting rig. The plus and […]. petapixel.com
There are a couple of different ways to use drones for light-painting. Some people will attach LumeCubes to their drone and paint an environment with them or will fly a drone around the sky or an object and have the drones lights creating images in the sky. However, there is another way to use them […] petapixel.com »
2018-08-16 20:41
DJI has unveiled its smallest and most affordable drone to date. The Spark is priced at just $499 and is roughly the same size (without the non-foldable arms) and weight as a can of soda! Spark is DJI's smallest ever drone! With a flight time of 16 minutes per charge, the quadcopter has a top speed of 50 km/h and a transmission distance of up to 2 kilometres. digitalrev.com »
2017-05-24 03:00
Sometimes you need to get your lighting into some difficult places, but when was the last time you felt the need to mount your lights onto a drone? Well, that is exactly what photographer David Robinson did for this incredible mountain bike shoot out in Austria, when he paired an Elinchrom ELB400 with a drone. thephoblographer.com »
2016-11-22 00:27
Update: This article previously stated that an Sony A7RII was mounted to a DJI Phantom 4 drone. That has been corrected. Cinematographer Bjarke Hvorslev and Kristian Kettner embarked on a 6 day trip to Iceland to film a stunning short film dedicated to the majesty of nature’s wonders. digitalrev.com »
2016-10-19 03:00
Cinematographer Bjarke Hvorslev and Kristian Kettner embarked on a 6 day trip to Iceland to film a stunning short film dedicated to the majesty of nature’s wonders. The film was shot using a Sony A7R II mirrorless camera mounted to a Phantom DJI Phantom 4 drone. digitalrev.com »
2016-10-19 03:00
Photographer Reuben Wu has released the final chapter of his groundbreaking Lux Noctis project, which involves lighting large-scale landscapes with drone-mounted lights. Titled “An Electric Storm,” the digital artwork has an incredible physical installation that combines a print with AR light projection.
Photographer Reuben Wu has made a name for himself by pioneering the use of drones in illuminating landscape photos. For his latest project Light Storm, Wu’s goal was to capture often-seen landscapes in a way people have never seen before.
Photographer Reuben Wu recently traveled to Pastoruri, one of the few glaciers left in tropical South America, and photographed it with lighting from an LED drone. “At 17,000ft [5,250m], it was a physical challenge to reach the glacier, compounded by the fact that I was shooting at night and under freezing conditions,” Wu tells PetaPixel. […]
Photographer Reuben Wu is a pioneer of using LEDs mounted to drones to light landscapes at night, and his project Lux Noctis is filled with gorgeous and unusual photos created using this technique. More recently, Wu has added yet another creative touch: he adds halos above the rock pinnacles on dramatic landscapes by flying the […]
Photographer Reuben Wu is a pioneer of using LEDs mounted to drones to light landscapes at night, and his project Lux Noctis is filled with gorgeous and unusual photos created using this technique. More recently, Wu has added yet another creative touch: he adds halos above the peaks of mountains by flying the drones in […]