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Eric Cheng

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Barry Blanchard invited me to hang out at Google HQ today with the some of the folks from the Google+ / photos team (most of whom I already knew from other angles—it is a small world here in the valley). Along with a huge DJI S800 EVO hexacopter, Barry brought with him a DJI Phantom Vision ...

3 dusk flights at Scripps Park in La Jolla, San Diego, featuring sea lions, cormorants, crashing waves, and a few tourists. Still images here. DJI Phantom with gimbal and GoPro HERO3 camera on 1080p/60 Medium / ProTune and conformed to 24p in Final Cut Pro X. Music: Yo-Yo Ma, playing the Sarabande from Bach’s 6th Unaccompanied ...

I went to La Jolla today to fly Phantoms around with Mark Peterson and Norm Hamson. I had hoped to be able to capture shots of La Jolla from the air during a beautiful sunset, but thick clouds blanketed the horizon, giving us a quick path to darkness at dusk. Every time we take quadcopters ...

A morning of flying around at Mission Beach Park and Scripps Pier in San Diego. DJI Phantom quadcopter with gimbal and GoPro HERO3 camera. Test: GoPro Studio 2.0’s new templates for video edit. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

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! 🙂

The Sausalito Gate 6 houseboat co-op is a fragile remnant of times past. Its days are numbered, as it is scheduled to be converted into something very different in 2014. Meredith Yayanos is currently staying at the co-op, and through her, I met a few of the residents, all of whom seem to be on ...

I spent a couple of hours at 3D Robotics this afternoon with Chris Anderson, Brandon Brasso, and Pablo Lema. We chatted aerial imaging and flew around prototype Y6 and IRIS multirotors (the IRIS is a completely different bird than the early prototype I flew out of their San Diego office—super stable, now!). The Berkeley office ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riB6dR1SwIg?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Experimental cloud timelapse (1 shot every 0.5 sec, GoPro HERO3 Black). Shooting into the sun gives the scene way too large a dynamic range to successfully capture using a GoPro. Next time, I will probably spot meter to expose the clouds successfully. Also, there was a lot of wind, which makes for shaky ...

Here are some behind-the-scenes shots from Tonga, which were taken by my good friend, Julian Cohen. Although I mostly flew from the boat, I did a couple beach launches, as well. It’s important to have a tough, waterproof case for work like this. My entire Phantom with FPV and 6-8 batteries fits in a single ...