Tag: panorama - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

Tag: panorama

Colorado 360º Spherical Panorama, Inspire 1 Pro, Zenmuse X5

One morning, Thomas O’Brien and I drove to Little Annie’s Basin outside of Aspen, Colorado, to wait for the sun to come up and illuminate the valley. I flew a DJI Inspire 1 Pro and Zenmuze X5 camera w/Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens out a bit and shot a 48-image, 360º, spherical panorama, which I processed ...

I tried to take a spherical panorama inside 16th Street Station in Oakland, today. The prototype DJI Inspire 1 w/Zenmuse X5′s Visual Positioning System wasn’t working, so I had to pilot manually the whole time in ATTI, which was challenging for aerial panorama movements.  There were a couple major issues with my attemps: 1) I ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PelLmmWrlzs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] A different kind of flight with Skyward CEO Jonathan Evans. Thanks for the impromptu flying lesson! Shot with Ricoh Theta M15 spherical camera. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Aerial panorama of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy. Taken with DJI Phantom 3 Professional at 180′.

I met up with a friend at a park in the Marina and shot this panorama of San Francisco using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter. The wind was blowing really hard, but it was no problem: sent the thing up, took 6 pictures in Adobe DNG raw with approximately 50% overlap in each, and ...

It’s been a long time since I have posted anything here, which is unfortunate—I’ve been so busy, both personally and professionally! But I was outside today during the beautiful light at dusk, and put my Inspire 1 straight up over the canyon near my place to shoot this 3-shot panorama, taken with the DJI Inspire ...

I was in Pittsburgh yesterday to give a talk about Drones and Conservation at River Rally 2014, a conservation conference co-hosted by River Network and Waterkeeper Alliance. After my talk, Skip Barker of Wing Systems took me out on the Allegheny River aboard his Torqeedo-powered electric skiff, which was very cool. I sent a DJI Phantom ...

I spent the morning flying around San Diego with Mark Petersen (another Phantom pilot). We went to Mission Beach Park and Scripps Pier and had absolutely perfect flying conditions. Mark flew his first FPV flight—always fun to watch the first one! 🙂

Once you have a 2-axis gimbal on your quadcopter, it becomes really easy to take aerial panoramas. I sent my DJI Phantom quadcopter up into the air on GPS lock mode with the GoPro 3 camera taking pictures in timelapse mode—1 picture every 2 seconds. I spun the Phantom around once, capturing a full spin (360º) in ...