52 Assignments: Drone Photography

52 Assignments: Drone Photography

52 Assignments: Drone Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity. This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It has a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful, dynamic drone photographs and videos. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, allowing you to create a unique journal to record the journey you have made with your imagination.  Complete the assignments weekly over a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your drone photography.  Assignments in the book include: Composing stunning landscape vistas - Taking aerial selfies - Videoing a voyage through a forest - Using waypoints to take the same shot at different times, day and night  This book guides readers to learn something new or try something innovative within drone photography's dynamic and developing world.  "Kennedy covers topics as Top-Down Sports (unique angles for sporting events), Make a Splash (watersports), and The Big Reveal (shooting video where the main subject is revealed after being obscured by another object). And each of the assignments features a Tip to guide you to producing great results. This is a unique boom for the photographer interested in drone photography ." —Photographic Society of America "useful advice on tackling a range of subjects, including abstract nature images, sports and snow scenes; and each chapter is prefaced with a section offering technical or creative tips. It will give you all the inspiration and advice you need to dust off the drone in the cupboard and try something new." — Amateur Photographer Fergus Kennedy has worked for numerous clients including Canon Europe, Worldwide Fund for Nature, the Nobel Foundation and National Geographic Arabia. He has been Highly Commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and he has sat on the judging panel of the Outdoor Photographer of the Year. He has been flying drones professionally since 2014, shooting both still images and video for TV and commercial clients including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Amazon Prime, Toyota, Kellogg’s, HSBC and Barclays. Fergus has written two books on drone photography (this is his third). Fergus is based in East Sussex, England.