Ella Walter
The DJI Mavic Pro offers a range of features that enhance the panoramic photography experience. These include a three-axis gimbal, advanced flight modes, and intelligent shooting options. To capture panoramic images, users can employ techniques such as manual panning, using a telephoto lens, adjusting exposure settings, and utilizing stitching software for post-processing. While the process may vary depending on the specific model of the DJI Mavic Pro, the following steps can generally be followed to capture panoramic photos.
| Characteristics | Values |
|---|---|
| Shooting mode | Manual or automatic |
| Shooting technique | Shoot in zig-zags, changing the tilt before yawing |
| Number of photos | 3, 4, 5, or 7 |
| Aspect ratio | 3x1, 3x3, or 180° |
| Photo format | RAW or RAW and JPEG |
| Software | Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, or PTGui |
| Exposure settings | Slightly underexposed |
| Image stitching | Required due to the lack of a rotating lens |
| Image overlap | About one-third |
| Drone movement | Rotate or yaw, avoid moving up, down, forward, or backward |
| Bracketing | 3 or 5 image bracketing |
| Image merging | Merge bracketed image sets in post-production |
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What You'll Learn
Use a telephoto lens
The DJI Mavic Air is a drone that can be used to capture stunning panoramic images. Its compact and portable design offers a range of features that enhance the panoramic photography experience.
To capture panoramic images, you can use a telephoto lens. The DJI Mavic 3 is equipped with a tele-camera that features a 162mm telephoto zoom lens, which is perfect for creating beautifully compressed panoramic landscape photos.
- The tele-camera enables 28x hybrid zoom, which is ideal for creating compressed panoramic landscape photos. The tele-camera gives a compressed telephoto perspective that can create stunning panoramic images that are not often seen from typical compositions.
- When using the telephoto lens, remember to adjust the settings to choose an appropriate white balance for the lighting conditions in your scene.
- Unlike the flagship 4/3 Hasselblad sensor on the Mavic 3, the smaller tele-camera only shoots photos in JPG format. It does not offer RAW photos or manual exposure capabilities.
- To capture a panorama, you must first ensure that your drone is set up and charged. The DJI Air 3 Intelligent Flight Battery needs to be charged and activated before its first use.
- Consider your desired panorama specifications. Panoramas can be wide, even 360 degrees, or they can be taken from a lower altitude to provide a unique perspective.
- If you are capturing a panorama with the sun in the frame, you may want to underexpose your images to preserve the highlights of the sky and the shadows of the buildings.
- You can also experiment with different exposure settings. Slightly underexposing your images can make it easier to bring out the shadows in post-processing.
- Depending on the lighting conditions, you may want to use the 3 or 5 image bracketing feature to capture both highlights and shadows in your panorama.
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Adjust exposure settings
The Mavic Pro’s camera has a fixed aperture, which means you cannot adjust the aperture to change the exposure. However, there are other ways to adjust the exposure settings.
Firstly, you can increase the ISO until the desired brightness is achieved.
Secondly, you can adjust the shutter speed. Typically, you want your shutter speed to be 1 over 2x your frame rate. For example, if you are shooting at 30 frames per second (30fps), you want your shutter speed to be set at 1/60th of a second. You can increase the shutter speed (1/120, 1/240, 1/400, etc.) until the desired exposure is achieved.
Thirdly, you can use ND filters to decrease the exposure and help maintain a 1/60th of a second shutter speed in brighter lighting conditions.
Additionally, you can tap on the subject you wish to film and lock the exposure to prevent constant brightness shifts and changes, providing more consistent and professional-looking footage.
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Shoot manually in brackets
When shooting a panorama with the DJI Mavic Pro, you can choose to shoot manually in brackets. This technique requires more post-processing in Lightroom or Photoshop but yields a much more detailed image with less distortion and better tonality.
To shoot manually in brackets, you will need to shoot a vertical set of three photos looking in the same direction, only changing the tilt before yawing. One shot in each vertical set needs to be at 0°. This photo should be in the middle of your set. You can start a vertical set from the top or the bottom. If you are using the grid lines and starting with the top of a vertical set, tilt up until you've put the lower third grid at the horizon, take a bracketed exposure, recenter the gimbal to 0° and take another, then tilt down until the upper third grid is at the horizon and take another bracketed exposure.
You can also use the three centre images to create a vertical panorama or portrait image. Start with a tighter crop as you will be including eight other shots around your centre frame. To ensure proper overlap between images, activate the Grid function in the DJI Go app (Photo/Video Menu, under the Tool section). This will help you keep enough overlap, which should be about one-third. Only rotate or yaw your aircraft and avoid moving it up, down, forward, or backward.
Finally, remember to shoot in RAW or RAW and JPEG mode so you have the .dng file available for post-production work.
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Merge images in post-production
When taking panoramic photos with the DJI Mavic Pro, you can merge images in post-production using stitching software. This technique requires more post-processing but yields a much more detailed image with less distortion and better tonality.
First, always shoot in RAW or RAW and JPEG mode so you have the *.dng file available for post-production work. Shooting in RAW gives you more flexibility in editing, allowing you to adjust exposure, white balance, and other settings after the fact.
Second, use stitching software like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, or PTGui to merge your photos into a panorama. Photoshop, for example, allows you to select "Edit in" and then "Merge to Panorama". This will open each of the frames as layers, which you can then align and mask to create your panorama.
Third, check your exposure settings and consider underexposing your images. Underexposing your images makes it easier to bring out the shadows in post-processing. Depending on the lighting conditions, you may also want to use the 3 or 5 image bracketing feature to capture both highlights and shadows in your panorama.
Additionally, when shooting your photos, ensure an overlap of around one-third between frames as this will make the stitching process easier. You should also try to keep your images level, as this will simplify the stitching process.
By following these steps and utilizing the right tools and techniques, you can create beautiful panoramic images by merging photos taken with your DJI Mavic Pro.
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Use the Grid function
The Grid function in the DJI Go app helps you keep enough overlap between images, which should be about one-third. To activate the Grid function, go to the Photo/Video Menu under the Tool section.
- Start by composing your shot with the starting point of your middle frame. As you won't always want objects in the centre of the frame, try to visualise the shot in your mind and make adjustments based on the centre frame, which may mean partially cropping things from your first frame.
- Make sure your drone is still before hitting the shutter button. Once pressed, you will see the gimbal moving to take the three shots. Do not move your drone until the shots are complete.
- When shooting horizontal panoramas, you can create a wide-angle image by combining nine images in a 3x3 grid formation.
- You can also use the three centre images to create a vertical panorama or portrait image. Start with a tighter crop as you will be including eight other shots around your centre frame.
- To ensure proper overlap between images, only rotate or yaw your aircraft and avoid moving up, down, forward, or backward.
- You can experiment with different exposure settings. Slightly underexposing your images can make it easier to bring out the shadows in post-processing.
- Using a telephoto lens can help flatten out distortion and add deeper distance compression, resulting in a higher-resolution image.
- Consider using stitching software like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, or PTGui to create your panorama and adjust tonality and depth.
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Frequently asked questions
It is recommended to shoot your panorama manually in brackets, using 3x or 7x if you have it. Shoot from one end of the panorama to the other in a zig-zag motion, taking a vertical set of 3 photos looking the same direction and only changing the tilt before yawing.
Shoot in RAW or RAW and JPEG mode so you have the .dng file available for post-production work. You can also experiment with different exposure settings, such as underexposing your images to make it easier to bring out the shadows in post-processing.
Pano Mode, or panoramic mode, allows you to capture stunning aerial panoramas. The drone will automatically take several photos and compose one panoramic photo.
Use stitching software like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, or PTGui to create your panorama.
