1 drone 1 battery 1 location. This is the one challenge with my DJI Mini 3 Pro
what's going on break aramella here and today I am in downtown Austin one location and I'm
going to fly my Mini 3 with one battery because I don't have any other batteries I only have this
battery I'm still waiting on the Fly more kit we're gonna do this experiment kind of like a
challenge for myself I'm gonna just fly in this one battery and this is just the normal battery
as you can see this is the 249 gram battery it's not gonna last as long so it will put me to the
test more of a challenge but I like challenges so we're gonna see how I do with the Mini 3 in this
location and when I'm done filming with this battery then I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna
edit the video in one day and I'm only gonna do one minute so it's all about the limitation of
having one for everything and by the way this is my first time flying in downtown Austin just moved
here I don't really know where to fly I'm able to fly here I'm in this park so I don't really know
where the best spots to fly are I don't really know the downtown and all these buildings so
I'm going to be discovering this along with you so obviously I'm not going to go over my entire
flight I'm just going to go over some of the highlights because otherwise this video will
be forever so these are just some of the highlights from this video off of this one
battery shooting the downtown so we'll see how it goes now let's get into it so I'm just gonna take
off and I'm flying in D cine-like mode I kind of like that all pets on the leash thing there so I
like having something in the foreground gives a little perspective and I'm just gonna go up I'm
just gonna move it up I'm also going to tilt the gimbal down as I go up so I'm tilting the gimbal
down ever so slightly and it gives that like Parallax effect it could be my the beginning
of my video perhaps I'm shooting 4K 60 frames per second by the way so I can speed it up or
slow it down there's nothing behind me so I know I'm safe going back I'm gonna go back and just get
that nice shot of the entire Skyline and having buildings other objects in the foreground adds
a little more depth to it like that shot tilted down slightly but seems to be okay now I'm going
to get a shot just going forward maybe a little bit around so I'm gonna with the right joystick
I'm going to press to the right and then also flying in normal mode by the way press to the
right and then with the left joystick a little bit to the left so I get that kind of movement
in my shots I like having that movement again I'm shooting at 60 frames per second so I can
speed it up or slow it down kind of like that shot this building looks like a sailboat or something
looks pretty cool now I don't have ND filters can't change my aperture so that's unfortunate
increase my shutter speed ever so slightly I don't like to do that but now I'm at 1 160th of a second
shooting at 60 frames per second I'm just going to go forward why don't we just go into the city so
we can get a shot into the City and I'm not flying that fast right near a power plant too so I don't
want to get too close to that you're not going to be able to slow it down if you shoot at 24 or 30
frames per second so that's what I'm doing right now alright so now I'm getting this weird looking
ramp here let me just go down so I'm pressing down with my joystick and with my left hand I'm
pressing over I like to get some movement into the shots I'm going pretty fast actually all right so
I got 64 battery life still good with battery life feels really good I like the Mini 3 this
is my first time flying it it has a really nice feel to it does not feel like a mini drone I have
to say feels pretty great in the hand so let's just go over this bridge again and into I'm just
moving around getting this movement shot over the trees and towards the downtown along that bridge
all right just kind of a movement shot get a little movement I might be able to add that to
the mix again I'm not going to fly this very far because I'm in the city so I want to be safe so a
lot of these shots are Parallax movement movements that building's really cool to the left right
there that's you know what you call that and again I have time constrained so I'm not doing my best
shooting here because I didn't even plan this out I'm just kind of randomly shooting why don't we
just do an up and then go down with the gimbal so I'm going to go up like this let's get a shot at
the city all right so I'm at the maximum flight altitude so I can't fly higher than this it's a
nice shot here with the two bridges in the city we could get now just going back I think it might be
better going back because we'll get the bridges and then we'll also get the entire Skyline so
I'm just holding that down get the entire Skyline right there all right that's pretty nice I like
that shot beautiful day beautiful Skyline and that could be the ending of the film see what else we
got 40 battery life so let's get a close-up shots just down low maybe we could get down low get this
little Parallax action going down here these boaters or whoever they are get some of these
boat Guys these kayakers can't talk and fly the same time like that that Parallax is pretty cool
just pan up with this guy sometimes it's nice just to pan you don't have to move anything
I'm just panning up getting the skyline like that it's nice so I don't have much battery life left
you can just pan down too so I'm just panning down I believe it's kayakers they're going fast
and I'm just panning down and getting that shot perfect now we don't have much battery life left
got to get it back soon I got 34 percent I'm just gonna try to get a couple shots going over these
Bridges really quickly worried about losing signal strength but it seems pretty good kind of shocked
actually how good it is trying to get close to the cars but the bridges without getting ridiculous
you know panning down ever so slightly and I think that's it guys that's it for whatever the heck I'm
gonna get off this one battery nearing an end here do want to kind of get this circle here so
I'm going to just get a top down shot real quick this thing is pretty cool circular it kind of has
a unique shape so what I'm going to do is just go up I'm gonna do a spinning move but I'm just
gonna go up with the joystick yeah that's about it just getting that cool right there all right as
high as I can go all right I gotta land my drone I'm gonna get a shot of me in the park here I am
alrighty so that was it now it's time to go edit all right so I edited the
one minute clip this afternoon so now let's go take a look at it
thank you
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so what do you think for that final version I added one of my cinematic Luts over the final
one minute edit so it would have a little more saturation and contrast to it and have more of
a finished type of look and if you're interested in that Lut it's in my DJI drone Pro course and
I show you exactly how I apply it how I use it and change it and this was my DJI natural pro
light which you can find in the links below of course that helps out my channel so I appreciate
it and the main thing I got from doing this challenge that I invented is that there's
liberty and limitation oftentimes as creative people we want to make it perfect we want to
plan everything out and have everything look just perfect and obviously I could have done a lot of
things better in this video but just having one battery in one location and just shooting it now
I have a piece of content that I can show for Real Estate maybe tourism or other companies
downtown if they want to see some footage of Austin or this area now I have a one minute
video to show I can put it on social media Etc so only having one battery actually was an event
manage for me because I didn't overthink it and I learned a lot about my skills in the moment how to
do something spontaneously and now I can have more confidence in future shoots where maybe I'm not as
prepared as I'd like to be but I know that I can just kind of wing it on the Fly and still come
up with something good so I just drove downtown I just picked that Park randomly okay and I just had
that battery and I just started flying and making it up on the fly so I didn't have any music picked
out I just picked out some music this afternoon and edited that one minute clip and just put it
together now obviously the movements everything could be better but I learned from that and I also
just learned that now I have something to show off in my portfolios so I hope this inspired you to go
out there and shoot and create something whether you've been putting something off and you think
the next piece of gear or something else will help you out the gear is important part of what we do
but what's more important is you make the best use of what you have so go out there and do that so
even filming this video is a challenge because I'm staying at an Airbnb because the place I'm moving
in isn't ready till next week so I wasn't able to sit down at my desk because there's a lot of noise
inside the Airbnb because there's other people in there the owner of the house so I found this place
which I think is pretty beautiful so in short make use of what you have hope you enjoyed this video
I really enjoyed flying the DJI Mini 3 Pro I'll put links Down Below in the description for that
if you want to see more videos like this leave a comment below I like to do it with other drone
pilots and creative people as well so I appreciate you hanging out with me don't forget to give this
video a thumbs up and I'll see you in the next one I'm Brett Garamella, and remember, Fly Like a Pro!