Nearly everyone’s got that fun uncle in the family who incepts kids with fun ideas they’re not encouraged to have. In my family, I’m that drone uncle who teaches youngins’ how to fly those “dangerous” drones and how take aerial photography. Thanks to the GoPro and other mountable cameras, folks like me are able to take some really nifty photos and videos. Other people, like the guys at Ascending Technologies, are upping the ante one step further by using their drones to take amazing long-exposure photographs.
Instead of actually snapping the aerial photos with their drone, they’ve strapped on a bevy of color-changing LEDs to the drone and programmed it to fly in patterns resembling Christmas-related figures, while a landlocked camera snapped long exposure photographs. The end result? Massive holiday paints of light in the sky!
GPS coordinates from a pre-determined flight path were loaded from Ascending Technologies ’ AscTec Navigator software onto their AscTec Falcon 8 drone, allowing it to paint recognizable shapes like the Santa Claus and sleigh above, or the wrapped present above.
Most shapes required up to 400 waypoints and about 10 minutes to shoot. For those who’re not familiar with “long-exposure” photography, the process basically dictates that a camera’s shutter speed is drastically reduced to maintain an open aperture, thereby allowing additional light to penetrate the diaphragm for a longer duration. Any moving light source creates a permanent impression resembling a bright, glowing line.
Source: Gizmodo
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