Drove downtown this evening at sunset for a couple of flyby views of the Arch. It recently got some upgraded lighting that illuminates it nicely. It's about a 10 minute drive from my house on the Illinois side.

Sensational Vision, Steve.
You really have mastered that gadget. I'm impressed!
Trev

phenomenal video. Very much enjoyed this.

I have a Blade Chroma 1080 camera Drone With the Yuneec ST-10 Controller and occasionally fly it around the farm.

I had not heard of that one before. I looked it up on Amazon. That's a cool drone you have. Very similar in shape and style to my bird. You could use it to track any strange critters sneaking around the farm.

very stable footage, Steve! You must have a pretty good drone!
And the subject is pretty awesome too... especially filmed at sunset!

Only because I'm not flying it, LOL. For shots like this I program the drone's course with a Google Map-like interface. Takes away the pilot error issues.

Drone: DJI Phantom 4 Pro

Steve this was beautiful. You have mastered the art of drone photographing.

wow, I see why its so good! It's priced like a guitar!

Much as I would love to have a drone of that quality... I'd have a hard time parting with $1,500 for an item I'd probably not use often enough to justify the cost.

I tried buying a cheap drone, then using film editing to stabilize the footage, but that approach is not worthy to be compared to the truly stable footage a good drone delivers!

Super cool! Thanks for sharing!

Wow Steve! You've gotta love the low light capabilities of the camera. The sky was a beautiful background for an already great subject. You captured it very well.

So are you using DJI's software, Litchi, or something else?

Very nice, very smooth!

Thanks for posting it!

Fantastic couldn't hear the soundtrack though...eh !!

Lilly and I were at a SAR training last year and one of the other folks not on our team had one of those phantoms. Really nice machine. He flew it across a very large lake, over the ridge on the other side and found another team in the fields beyond our view. Instructed it to return and it came right back home and landed on the same exact spot it left from. Very impressive little drone. As it was returning home, he talked about many of it's capabilities such as way point travel, hands off holds, object avoidance, and more.

Wow - this was stunning to watch! And a really stunning piece of architecture - I'll have to visit one day.

Litchi. DJI GO does not have the offline waypoint programming that Litchi does. I believe you have to fly the course manually to set the waypoints on DJI's app. Litchi has a Google Maps-like interface that you can program on any web browser. Then you open the app on your phone and have access to the map. When you fire up the drone, the map gets sent directly to it so you do not have to pilot at all.


Yeah, you would think I wouldn't be so lazy being a member on a PG forum. I tend to want to rush the video out before I get music to it. I'll try to work on that.


Totally agreed. During the 1 year plus that I've had it now, the 2 crashes I had were when I was flying manually at low altitude, aka trees.

Here's the map I made from my laptop of the Arch course:

Sorry, link didn't work for me.

You probably tried to grab the .PNG I put in there originally. I found that did not show on the page and was an attachment. I changed it to a .JPG so it would show. Just refresh your page.

Yep, works now. Thanks

Indeed. I use Litchi day in and day out and mostly love it. There are a few quirks and things you need to anticipate but overall it's a great app.

All I see here is a large amount of water offering many splashdown points where I would be crashing the drone.

Sounds like a remote controlled boat may be better for you Eddie.

Wow Steve! That is gorgeous!

You are really good with that. You could film a lot of stock footage for music videos for yourself and "others" to use...hint.

Steve, both shots are impressive. I'd hire you if I was working for a tourism bureau or realty company! Do you know anything about the building with the multi-color led lighting?

The lighting update is well thought out but the arch looks strange because of the color. I'm use to seeing the gold and with the arch not being very visible sometimes at night. Have they completed the internal renovations to the arch?

Got to say, looks like the video was shot from inside a new aircraft that doesn't have any scratches on the surface of its windows yet. Very pretty and professional.

Fabulous, Steve! Thanks for sharing.

That building on the right is the Lumiere Place Casino.


I think they have. I just haven't been down there yet. Supposedly they gutted everything and started over.

Thanks for all the kind words Jim!

Agree that the low light capability is impressive