073. Awesome Drone Photography with Tom Noske

05/01/19 • 54 min

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Tom Noske is a drone pilot from Melbourne, Australia, that is creating beautiful pieces of art with his drone. Yeah, we're going to learn all about his shooting style and editing process during this chat!

Tom is currently flying the DJI Mavic 2 Pro, and absolutely loves the larger Hasselblad sensor. He was flying the original Mavic Pro, but since upgrading he's caught the bug for larger sensors. Yeah, that means that the Inspire 2 is on his list for his next purchase.

On the commercial side of things, Tom is working with sports teams and fitness professionals. He works with rugby teams, rowing teams, and wants to get into shooting music videos. He's also doing corporate work like real estate, but admits that he doesn't like it as much as the other areas.

His editing workflow starts in Adobe Lightroom and then moves into Photoshop. He starts with camera calibrations, tone curves, white balance, and some other basic adjustments in Lightroom. Once in Photoshop, he adds and removes new things, creates atmosphere, moves subjects around, and then returns to Lightroom. Why back to LR? Well, you'll have to listen in to get that detail!

One of Tom's biggest tips is that you should always shoot at sunrise or sunset. He loves using the natural light, and creating large scale photos. How about you? Do you like shooting at sunrise or sunset? Do you find that in the summer sunrise is too early to catch, so you find that sunset is easier to make?

Ok I hope that you enjoyed this week's chat with Tom Noske from Melbourne. As you can see from the photo above, and his instagram profile, he is creating some incredible art. Are you fired up to try and create something along the same lines as well? Show us what you've got! And if you liked the show, please share it with someone else who loves drones :)

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072. Precision Agriculture Drones with Cheyenne Laux

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Cheyenne Laux is a drone pilot based in Kentucky, who is operating a drone business with his brother-in-law. His company is called AgDrone PRO, and they concentrate on providing actionable drone data for precision agriculture.

Precision agriculture is a farming management concept based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in crops. Cheyenne and his company utilize drones to capture data, which they can turn into direct action for farmers. Long gone are the days of wasting resources on the entire field! Now you can simply apply to the areas that need it, instead of covering the entire field in the same amounts.

With large areas of land to cover, Cheyenne is utilizing a combo of multi-rotor and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drones to capture his data. In addition to the drone, he's also flying a variety of multispectral sensors to capture everything from RGB (red/green/blue) to NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index). So far he's been flying the AeroVironment Quantax, and has recently started working with the BirdsEyeView FireFLY6. Both systems are VTOL, and can carry Slantrange sensors.

Since they're running a team of drone pilots across the country, they need a management solution to keep tabs on all their equipment, pilots, and missions. Recently, Cheyenne was contacted by the Kittyhawk team about their drone fleet management software. They've just started using it, however love what they see so far. If you're also managing a team of drone pilots, this may be of interest to you too.

Anyway, we had a nice long chat about Precision Ag and VTOL drones. Hopefully you enjoy listening in, and if you have any questions feel free to reach out to us in the comments below. Also, if you like the show, we'd love for you to share it with another drone pilot! Thanks in advance!

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074. Women Who Drone Founder Elena Buenrostro

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Have you heard of Women Who Drone? They're a global community that inspires, educates and empowers women and girls with drone technology! Join in this week as I chat with founder and CEO, Elena Buenrostro!

Elena is a drone pilot with a background in video production. Her love of drones started with a trip to the Great Wall of China a few years ago. As she was planning her trip, she started thinking of what kind of equipment to take with her... and guess what? A drone quickly became one of her top choices! She picked up a DJI Mavic Pro, and successfully flew at the Great Wall! Since starting off with the DJI Mavic, she's also picked up the Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic 2 Zoom, and Mavic Air. Who else is envious that she's 4 for 4 in acquiring the Mavic line?

Elena prefers to edit with Adobe Premiere, leaving Final Cut Pro X in the dust a few years ago. She's still working on a MacBook Pro, and finds that Premiere works just fine on the apple platform. It's interesting as I've heard that the Adobe products work much better on windows computers. Either way, I still like Final Cut Pro and likely won't be switching to Premiere Pro anytime soon.

A few months ago I spoke with Camilla Dellion on the podcast, and she is the one that connected me with Elena. During the chat, I discovered that like high school teacher Erin Knoetig, Elena is also teaching children how to fly. I love hearing about the cool things kids are doing with drones and the Swift programming language, so I commend both Erin and Elena for what they're doing. Keep up the good work!

Drone project pricing is a common discussion point on my weekly drone mastermind meetings, and we also discuss Elena's pricing model during this chat. There are many different factors to keep in mind, so be sure to listen to what Elena recommends as it's some very solid advice. Also, if you're interested in checking out our weekly online meetings where we chat about drones, just send me a message and I'll invite you to next week's meeting!

Well hopefully you enjoyed this week's chat with Elena Buenrostro, the founder and CEO of Women Who Drone!