New Toys, New Skills and New Services, Drone Photography/Video.

I went to our local Photography Club’s ALPS, at the Little Egypt Art Association, meeting a while back. The guest speaker brought in his camera drone! I have wanted a drone and considered getting one for a few years now. His demonstration pushed me over the edge. I bought a drone shortly afterwards, a DJI Air 2S. I will not bore you with all the specs, it does has a 20MP camera on a 1-inch sensor and it can do 4k Video.

Guess who Bought a Drone!!!

The day I ordered it, I took the FAA Trust exam to be able to fly it recreationally and was waiting for it to come in. It arrived late on a Friday and I charged all the batteries read the manual. The next day I took it out to fly. What fun!

Spillway

I knew that I would want to be able to sell pics from using it and be able to fly to get pics and/or videos for others on contract. You know insect a roof, overhead photos for real estate and such. So just a few days after I got it I signed up for a training course through Drone Launch Academy (recommended during the ALPS presentation & now by me too) to prepare for the FAA Part 107 Exam. I have spent the last few weeks studying and the last week repeatedly taking practice test. I have been consistently scoring in the 90s on the last 6 tests. Good news is I will only need a 70% to pass the actual test.

Jason and Janelle’s house.

That leads to today! I took the exam!  Passed it with a 93% and have applied for my License! I should have my temporary License in a week. At that point I can fly commercially, as in for pay, legally.

If you know anyone lookin for photos that need to be taken from above, ie real estate, roof inspection, or just a unique angle give me a call!

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until next time

The Redleg Photographer