Ow my knees
This is how a lot of landscape shoots get planned. Me and a couple of mates have a messenger group where we talk photo stuff and plan places to go. Usually just a “Hey I’m going to xxx spot, anyone else keen?” As my Patreon grows (lol), I’m thinking of starting one of these message groups so people can plan shoots together or tag along to where I’m headed myself. I dunno 🤷🏻
Anyway, what Alan didn’t really mention was the walk over the hill from Ohope to the bay. According to my health app on the phone, 9516 steps and 28 floors climbed 😖 There’s me exercise for the week done 🤣 Buy hey, I survived!
Anyway, weather apps were predicting high cloud which is usually perfect for sunrise/sunsets, unfortunately, 100% high cloud snuffs out pretty much everything. Guess what we got 🤦♂️
So, very little in terms of sunrise action sadly, but took the opportunity to play shooting some video with the new drone which you can see here if you haven’t already or aren’t in the early access or VIP tiers. I shot some stills too, very much looking forward to exploring a new perspective. On the walk back we managed to get in a little bird shooting while we are at it too!
So I’ll start with the crap sunrise and move on to the drone pics 👍👍
Pretty much all the colour we got. Sad!
But there were some interesting textures in the sand!
There’s a tiny waterfall at the bay too. An awkward one to try and photograph but the view back out to the bay isn’t bad!
There were a bunch of Tui floating around snacking on berries, managed to spy a Wood Pidgeon too!
So on to the drone shots!
Looking back across the bay. About 35 meters up from memory. The max height you can fly these things here is 120 meters up, which is pretty darn high, I’m not sure I’d even see the bloody thing up at that height - which is one of the rules you have to follow, must have direct sight on it at all times.
This is the top down perspective I’m really going to spam with this thing. Patterns and textures we’re not used to seeing!
The video footage I took before I shot this still looks like it’s been slowed down, interesting that the top down perspective gives that effect!
Looking forward to give this lil guy a work out, hopefully it’ll add a new level in terms of video and stills!
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