As drone technology continues to advance, panorama photography has become a popular feature in drone photography. Panorama mode allows users to capture a wide field of view, stitching photos from multiple angles into a complete panorama, providing an immersive visual experience.
What is Panorama Mode?
Panorama mode refers to using a drone to take photos from multiple angles, and then stitching these photos into a wide panorama through software. This mode can capture a wider field of view than a single photo, and is suitable for scenes such as landscape photography, architectural photography, and outdoor activity recording.
How Drone Panorama Photography Works
1. Automatic shooting: Most modern drones are equipped with a panorama shooting mode. When this mode is activated, the drone automatically flies and takes a series of photos from preset angles.
2. Photo stitching: After the shooting is completed, dedicated software or the drone's own application will stitch these photos into a complete panorama. The stitching process is usually automatic, but users can also make manual adjustments to ensure the stitching effect.
3. Adjustment and optimization: After the panorama photo is generated, users can use photo editing software to adjust and optimize it, such as exposure, contrast, and color balance, to obtain the best visual effect.
Do Autel drones support panoramic photography?
The series of Autel drones that support panoramic photography include: EVO Nano series, EVO Lite series, and EVO II series.
The panoramic photography of Autel drones includes: portrait, landscape, wide-angle, and spherical panoramic photography functions.
How to shoot panoramic photography with Autel drones?
- Choose an Autel drone that supports panoramic photography;
- Open the Pano option in the camera settings and find the style of panoramic photography you want to shoot
- Open the settings and select the file save format as jpg+dng
- Get the panoramic image taken by the drone.
If you are not satisfied with the automatically generated panoramic photos, you can also import the single photos you took into relevant photo editing software for processing, adjust the exposure, add filters, and get the best panoramic photos.
Note: By default, a panoramic photography will take 26 photos, and you can also manually adjust the number of photos.
More tips for drone panoramic photography
When shooting a panorama, it is very important to make sure that the camera is level with the horizon. If the camera is tilted, the panorama may have a wavy horizon or a strange step shape when merging, or it may even fail completely. If you have trouble leveling the camera, try placing the drone on a completely level surface with no magnetic interference and run a gimbal calibration.
When shooting drone panoramas manually, the overexposure produced by the drone stitching panorama is almost impossible to handle, so please open the drone histogram when shooting and adjust the camera EV value to facilitate post-processing. Alternatively, you can choose to shoot panoramas at dusk or dawn without worrying too much about exposure.
Spherical photography cannot be viewed directly on the drone remote control. If you want to view a 360° photography of an object, please enter other editing software that supports 360° view, such as 720° Cloud App.
Can I mount a 360 camera on a drone?
Currently, it is not supported to mount a 360 camera on Autel drones, and autel consumer drones support shooting panorama photography.
Conclusion
Drone panorama photography provides photographers with a wide range of creative space and a new perspective. By choosing the right drone and mastering the panorama shooting skills, you can create stunning drone panorama photos and capture unprecedented scenery.
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