I have for sale my DJI Phantom 3 Professional Drone.
Purchased from WEX Photographic (so is a genuine UK model and not a grey import) on 4th September 2015 so still under warranty. As the screenshot of the flight records show, it’s been flown for less than 4 hours and has no damage.
This drone is not a toy, it’s a fully blown photography drone complete with stabilised Gimbal mounted 4K camera from the market leaders in Drone technology. For more information, please see the DJI Website
Adobe’s Lightroom Mobile has been around for sometime now and gave photographers the ability to syncronise their Lightroom edits on their PC or Mac to the Adobe Cloud and then continue to edit them a mobile device through a Smart Preview file rather than the original RAW.
Personally, I have never had the need to use this although can see it as a useful tool for some photographers.
Now, Adobe have released version 2.0 on the Android platform which allows you to edit your RAW files (DNG format) captured on your Android device (providing the camera is capable of capturing RAW files).
Adobe Lightroom Mobile 2.0 is completely free, you don’t require a CC subscription to use it. The only function that you need a subscription is to synchronise photos back through Adobe’s Cloud to your desktop version. If all you want to do is take a photo and make some edits and share them, it’s totally free. I think you have to sign up for an Adobe ID, but there is no charge.
You can get the app on Google Play. At time of writing, this new feature is not available on the IOS platform due to what I believe to be Apple restrictions.
I was going to setup my Temporary Reflection Pool today but the cloud cover was far too great for anything decent. There was a brief moment where the light became a little brighter and I noticed that the House Sparrows were taking a drink from a particular place in the pond, so maybe no need for the Reflection Pool.
Of course, by the time I had got the camera ready, the cloud cover came back. I did manage to snap one photo of this Male at the pond.
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I decided to have another look through some of my rejected photos of the Short Eared Owls I’ve recently been getting up early for. None of them will make my Flickr Album but even though this shot is both a bit boring (just a side on-shot) and quality isn’t great, I love the sunrise colours of the whole scene so thought I’d share.
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Whilst waiting for the sun to come up I thought I’d shoot some film of one of the Owls flying as it was too dark for photos. However, there were a lot of Crows flying around and the Owl would not leave the tree in fear of being mobbed. As the video shows, he was keeping a keen eye on it’s surroundings.
{Remember to watch in HD if possible}After a few failed attempts over the last few weeks, I got up before first light in hope to photograph a known location where Short Eared Owls have been showing well at first and last light.
Just as the sun started to rise above the tree line I wasn’t disappointed.
Whilst waiting, a Vole came scampering straight past where I was standing. I actually muttered something along the lines of “you’d better hide” and suddenly from the other side of the hedge I was backed-up against, a “Shortie” came swooping over. I’m not so sure who was more spooked, me, the Owl or the Vole. The Owl didn’t continue it’s swoop and the Vole survived being eaten.
The promise of clear skies wasn’t looking too great as a large thick cloud covered the sunrise. The Owl perched up in a tree, so I calmly walked towards it a few inches at a time. I got to about 20 metres and decided that was close enough. I quickly attached my 1.4x teleconverter to the 500mm and fired off a few shots.
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The ISS is again passing over the UK at regular intervals and tonight was a clear night to see a very bright passing.
To avoid star trails, this photo is made up of 4 separate shots using the D810’s internal intervalometer and then layered together in Photoshop.
If you wish to view the ISS passing over, check out www.n2yo.com or one of the many other websites and mobile apps that are available to give you details of the passes.
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