Eight drone shooting tips and technics for beginners

Sports camera brand GoPro launched its first unmanned drone Karma at the end of 2016. The release of Karma, not only allowed GoPro to realize the full range of sea, air, and land, but also added a great new option for drone enthusiasts. Undoubtedly, UAV is now the new darling of the photography industry, if you are also a shutterbug, are you planning to purchase a drone? Compared with the average camera, UAV is much more expensive, if you can not make the best of your drone and its mini camera, you are wasting your money. The following tips and technics are provided by experienced drone photographers, hoping to help you get started.

1. Find a suitable space

If you are a beginner, remember to avoid water or dense vegetation. Because you may not have the skill to fly before you start practicing, you should try to fly in an open area to prevent falling and shading.

2. Find the right light

Light for the drone's shooting is very much affected, so when shooting in the air, we must pay attention to light problems. Once the light is low, the shots will be relatively dark and less clear.

3. Plan ahead, save the battery

Most drone flight time on the market is 20-30 minutes, such as GoPro's Karma in full power supporting 20-minute aerial photography, and DJI Phantom 4 in full power supports 28 minutes flight time. Therefore, be sure to make a good shooting plan in advance to save the battery, and enough battery to return.

4. Comply with the rules

UAV flight area, aerial height limit, and UAV flight control personnel qualification, etc., need to be determined in advance. Otherwise, it is very dangerous to violate relevant laws and regulations on the way of filming or to fly within an unlawful scope.

5. Choose the right lens

There are many different lenses on the market to choose from, it is recommended to choose a lightweight micro camera so your drone has less load.

6. Set recording parameters

Before the flight, you need to preset the parameters of recording according to your project or work needs. Otherwise, it's hard to change the parameters once you take off.

7. Good at using tools

There are a lot of UAV accessories which are very convenient to use, such as the handheld gimbal.  It is a waste to only use powerful DJI Phantom 3 for aerial photography, this conversion kit allows Phantom 3 to be handheld-able, so you can shoot stable videos & pictures on the ground.

8. Try different shooting angles

We can refer to movies, documentaries or aerial photographs of others and learn different angles and capture track. Through lots of practice, you will find your own style.

The most popular toy categories in 2017

Blink of an eye, 2017 has been passed. Have you purchased any toys online in 2017? What is your favorite toy this year? Are you satisfied with the toys you got? Based on the data from a huge online store Banggood.com, from which millions of toys were sold in 2017, we analyze the data and draw the conclusion about the most popular toy categories in 2017.

3. Hand spinner

Hand spinner has swept the world for some time, and one of the most famous brands is ECUBEE. Ecubee hand spinner has countless types and designs for you to choose, so there is no idea that you can’t find the one you like. Ecubee spinners are famous and popular as they are affordable of good quality and various types. You just need to hold spinner in one hand and use the other hand to spin it rapidly with small continuous strikes to keep it spinning indefinitely. With practice, you can spin it using one hand only with the fingers to start and stop spinning.

2. Squishy doll

The squishy toy is another popular novice toy in 2017 and no one can resist this cute little fun toy. There are so many different squishy toys on the market and the cake squishy, bread squishy, panda squishy, puppy squishy are definitely the most popular. “This squishy is really nice! It feels like a marshmallow!”, “This squishy was amazing! It is soft and slow rising!”. The squishy toy is curing many people’s mental problems when their mood is blue.

1. RC car

Still, RC car is popular around the world, and the RC car industry has developed into a very mature and enormous industry. If you are one of the enthusiasts of RC car, you will know that there are many international RC car competitions, many local activities held by the local RC car clubs and millions of dollars were made every year. If you know about the RC car, you will also know that rc brushless motor car is the most popular since the brushless motor is the most advanced and practical motor. Basically, we can see that brushless motor is replacing the brush motor widely and commonly because the rc car brushless motor is more convenient to use and more economical. 

Recommended RC planes and accessories

This article is written especially for the RC plane beginners who are interested in RC planes but do not want to spend lots of money since all the recommended RC planes below are at the 100$ level, one or two might be under 100$, which are affordable but very highly-reviewed.

Recommended RC planes

1. ZOHD

The ZOHD Nano Talon 860mm Wingspan AIO HD V-Tail EPP FPV RC Airplane PNP With Gyro is very popular these days. This 860mm Wingspan Nano Talon fpv plane is a portable edition of the Talon Airframe series. It is super easy to hand-launch and fly because of the gyro. This Nano Talon is very convenient to carry with because the detachable main wing and tail wing can be detached easily by plugs and magnets. The built-in servo structure makes the airfoil more aerodynamic, and avoid damage even in a crash. The inside room and extra bottom hatch are also huge for more FPV gear.

2. Eleven Hobby

Eleven Hobby produces so many different classic models of RC aircraft to choose like the North American Aviation T-28 Trojan, which is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and the United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a counter-insurgency aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War.

3. WLtoys

WLtoys offers so many high-quality fpv planes at a very low price. Designed according to Cessna-182 real plane with cool appearance, the WLtoys F949 3CH 2.4G Cessna 182 Micro RC Airplane RTF has 3 coreless motors combination for stronger driving power. With EPP composite material, high flexibility, excellent recovery, it is not easy to break and easy to operate, suitable for beginners and intermediate flight game players.

4. Hubsan

Hubsan is a professional and world-famous RC toy brand. Hubsan H301S SPY HAWK 5.8G FPV 4CH RC Airplane RTF With GPS Module with automatic return function, if the aircraft strays beyond radio range, the aircraft will autonomously return to the take-off location. With GPS flight control system, providing more accurate flight and position hold capabilities. Accessories like folding propeller are also very durable made of high precision and high strength material.