5 Simple Drone Photography Tips with DJI Mini 3 Pro

@NigelDanson
I am very curious about the roof singles I saw in the beginning of your video. Are those some kind of Solar Panels, what are those exactly?

I now have this drone 😮..and it's wonderful..it's truly incredible for something so small. It's added another tool to my arsenal

@NigelDanson great tip ref vertical panis, can you tell me when doing this manually how much overlap do you aim for at the time of capturing the images? Thanks

Hi Nigel , just wondering how often do you mow that lawn ? Is it called a lawn there or a field?

Its NOT a 48 megapixel camera. Its a 12 megapixel camera.

The problem in my M3pro is the Camera Lens is the foggy Lens.

What printer are you using to print A3 sizes photographs?

Instead of shooting in Photo mode, is it possible to select specific video frames?

Nope, it's not a 48Mp sensor, is actually 12. You get the 48 when the drone combines multiple images in camera.

I'm in LOVE with this drone. It's incredible what DJI was able to fit into such a portable and stealthy package. Thanks for the tips on panoramas. The jpg ones it produces leave much to be desired and lightroom messes up the horizon when merging the unstitched raw images that are taken during the autopano process. Looks like I just need to carefully shoot them manually. No biggie!

What app do I use to edit your shots

Would love some tutorials new subscriber very informative👍

Great Video! Got me even more excited for my M3P which comes tomorrow. Stoked to start that journey, been flying a cheaper $300 drone for a while and ready to take the real plunge! Thanks for the content bro!

Hi Nigel, eally great video Nigel. Excellent tip about Panos. A query- when I format my card the numbering of files starts from 1 again and there seems no way to reslove this apart from not formatting the card- but just deleting images and leaving the last one on it. I like to reformat my card regulalrly so that doesn't work have you found a work around. Many thanks Julie

Thanks for this great video. I have a motorcycle channel that I thought would benefit with a drone footage, but, as a former nature/landscape photographer I am so very interested in developing a just drone perspective. You got a new subscriber tonight. Thanks for sharing....Bob

How do you blend them together in lightroom 5 ?

48mp mode sucks. The standard mp photos are stunning

48mp mode sucks. The standard mp photos are stunning

I am interested in your thoughts about the missing objective corrections for Lightroom of this drone. Once you are exploring more details of your images you clearly observe substantial image distortions, chromatic aberrations (in particular around branches), and noise (I most of the time shoot at ISO 100). I use DXO deep prime to get rid of the sensor noise and some of the distortions as well as chromatic aberrations. However, this is still not enough and I have to continue post edits in Lightroom. I also understand that you take your shots all manually (exposure compensation and panos) as the automatic panorama stitching is not really good. I also do this - practically not relying on any of the automated functions. I also appreciate shooting panos in portrait mode. Then and after corrections applied by the software I get reasonable results. So in my opinion quite some work. It would be simpler if DJI would finally supply some correction file for post editing the raws and would allow one to edit the way how the panos are taken in a more flexible way.

Great tips!, i'm also impressed by how you are able to manually stitch together photo's without the drone doing it for you.
How do you know you aren't missing parts of the landscape you are trying to shoot?

What program do you use to edit?

Nice and instructive! THX!

Great video thanks! I'm an amateur photographer so always nice to see someone using the M3P for photos and not just videos! Amazing how all the same principles apply, just a few metres up in the air!!

Great video, good tips especially about taking vertical panoramics, which hadn't occurred to me. Refreshing to see someone interested in stills too!

The panoramic pictures are fantastic but what is the quality like if you want to zoom in on your taken photograph to possibly look at a building in a town or something?

I try to get a good photo from 150m but it says it’s illegal 😢

Thank you for this <3. I just bought my first drone and it is also a mini pro 3. Hope I can shoot images like this soon <3

Thank you for sharing these details and suggestions. I just got this drone and was really interested to hear that you used the vertical mode for pano's manually... I was already keen to try that out, and, also manually HDR bracketing the 48mpx images. It will be huge!

I appreciate this overview. I just picked up the mini 3 pro after using the 2 for a year and I'm super excited about the improvements. Also, kudos to you, spectacular images. I feel like with most creators making product how-to videos, their content examples are usually terribly dull and unimpressive. Your book looks incredible!

Thanks for this Nigel and you're a real photographer as well. I too do landscape and astrophotography and have just started to integrate my drone into my work.

i just got one and i absolutly love it. I was wondering that you used it in the rain, is that safe?

No raw capability right?

Picking up my first drone. Mini 3 pro. Cant wait to fly and take pics and vids. Can u recomend settings for pics and vids. Both day and night. Thank you

Nice video, are you using any filters on the drone? Thanks 👍

Couldn't stop hearing dgi 🙉😂

What video editing software do you recommend?

Hi Nigel, great video thanks! A silly question though, I’m new to the DJI mini 3 pro and I’m trying to find out how to focus the camera both when I’m auto focus and manual focus? Especially when in auto though. When I tap the screen on my focal point it just locks exposure. Any suggestion?

Watching alot of Mini 3 Pro review videos and no one mentions the fixed F1.7 aperture. How does that affect your photos with this drone? Do you notice anything that dramatically stands out? I would love for someone to talk about that

I love the images and how you made them. I often an amazed at what the sky and clouds do so well. Living in West Central Florida which is luckily a weatheer convergence zone the nature of these elements are simply amazing. What I have seen and heard from you forced me to subscribe and follow you always now. Your work ethics are very good and I will learn a lot using my lovely mini 3 pro for sure. They are great at videos but I really love the camera for its image abilities as a flying camera not on the ground. I have beautiful cameras and lenses but the drone is special. I still love my Mavic pro2 with Hasselblad as well as others I own but the Mini 3 is a special one for its abilities and flight times. I have not had the well spoken of issues and now it even has a longer distance as I like to go out about a miles towards the gulf of mexico I live so close to (2 miles). A flying camera is magic to my eyes.
Thanks so much for posting this valuable information and ideas. Ray C Florida

Hi again. I now have the mini 3. What software do you use for the video.

WoW Thanks for sharing your video so much information to use on my upcoming Pacific Island Holiday the reason I purchased the mini 3 pro

Are ND and ND/PL filters useful for these kinds of photos as well? Still kinda new to this but I find it awesome but gotta learn when and when not to use filters. I see people use them all the time for videos but not much is mentioned for photos other than for waterfalls and the silky effect lol

Absolutely stunning photos, shame about the drone price, £880

Nigel, I see some recommend getting ND filters, is that something you use?

Excellent video. Thank you. So helpful.

So this drone only take photos 4:3?

I had two microdiscectomies, do you think this drone is good for me?