The sky’s the limit

Photographer and vintage tractor enthusiast Rob Power tells how he sent his Nikon up into the sky on a custom-built drone mount

Mission: Photograph rural landscapes from the air with a drone and custom-mounted Nikon camera Photographer: Rob Power Location: Rural New South Wales, Australia Kit: Nikon 1 J5, Nikon 10mm f/2.8, 3DR Solo drone Website: www.robertpower.com.au Ever since picking up my first camera in 1977, I have been interested in photography. I turned professional in 2003 and have covered a variety of subjects from ground level, an eight-metre tripod, and I’ve shot photographs from aircraft. However, I was very keen to come up with a platform for aerial photography that didn’t require an aircraft – I wanted something I could fly in my own time and capture rural scenes from above. My drone is an interesting piece of kit – it’s a 3DR Solo drone that was originally fitted with a gimbal and an actiontype camera, which…

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N-photo: The Nikon (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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