Clear blue skies could be seen first thing in the morning from my window today, and with a few hours to spare before the stock market opened, I figured it was the perfect time to get out and explore and get my daily little walk and photography session done. Though yesterday as I found myself realising I relied on sunsets again, I had already pre-planned the idea of finding a totally new location to roam through in hopes of both exploring and finding various subjects worthy of photographing with the drone. I ended up in an area I have never been to before, and one I definitely aim to return to when conditions are more ideal.
I found myself walking through hilly farmland full of life. Various birds of prey and even deer within the same field as me. I took some photographs and videos of them, but they didn't turn out all that well given the clear skies were met with incredibly strong winds. My little drone was getting battered around by the wind to the point in which the near 30 minutes of battery life per battery was reduced to almost 4 minutes of flight! This meant I couldn't fly the drone as high up and far as I would have liked to, and reduced the number of photographs I could take. I sadly didn't have a whole lot of time to configure the shutter speed and colour temperature given the lesser battery life and incredibly bright sky.
Though this little adventure to a new location has definitely given me some additional things to look out for. I have a few shots I would like to capture and areas I'd like to return to, hopefully to capture some better photographs of the wildlife in the area. It was a nice surprise to see deer in the same field as me, to the point where they didn't really seem to care that the drone was present at all. Usually the deer see you far before you see them, and they ensure they maintain a very lengthy distance from you, often moving to another field.
One of these fields connected to a countryside golf course which I think will be very fun to capture under better conditions, and I think that alone would be the most risky thing I would do with the drone since my purchase with it! Flying over golfers launching golf balls into the air with the drone! Though I have no doubts there's plenty of composition and interesting themes to capture from above with the drone that'd make it worth it.
In the second image you see the two trees standing together in an open field. They really did stand out, and these are something I'd want to capture a bit better again with the drone another time. There's definitely some composition presenting itself, especially under some better lighting, maybe a visit around golden hour would be ideal!
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Nice photos, man. I really like such nature scenes. Now that I am in the village, maybe I can share such nature photos with you.