How to evaluate Inception?

If you are an aerial photographer or pay more attention to aerial photography, then you must have noticed some "unusual" aerial photography works, which are full of impact and uniqueness with their unique perspectives, impressions and skills, and teach the audience how to shoot, which is thought-provoking. Today, I'm bringing Matthew Mas's filming and later tutorial to show you its The Secret Behind.

First, find the right theme.

First of all, for this form of expression, you need to find a suitable theme: you need to find a long and straight theme, and the expressway is the perfect theme! I chose a quiet road in the country as a demonstration.

The theme has been chosen, and then what?

Next, you need to adjust the lens angle downward as the drone rises and take multiple photos on the same vertical plane. Finally, when the drone is at the top, the lens angle should be perpendicular to the ground.

The picture below is the first picture I started taking. At that time, the drone was only 10 meter from the ground, and the lens was slightly downward, facing the distant road.

When shooting the second picture, the drone rose to a height of 30 meters and the lens angle was a little lower.

At this point, the drone has flown to a height of 60 meters, and the angle of the camera is further reduced. Lucky when shooting, just a car passed by on the road, which added a bit of interest to the picture.

It should be noted that when shooting, you not only need to climb constantly, but also need to fly forward slightly along the road. Taking this vertical photo, I flew the drone 60 meters forward and rose to the height of 120m m.

Oleg Gladkov has made an illustrative picture of what angle and height to shoot the material. At the same time, John Flury, a foreign netizen, only made an explanatory picture. You can try it more according to these two pictures.

Next, open all the materials in Photoshop, then roughly splice them together and sort the layers from top to bottom.

Next, we start with the material at the bottom of the picture, and use the deformation tool in PS to narrow the upper part of the road, so that it can be spliced with the material at the upper part, and at the same time widen the lower part of the road, resulting in distortion.

The next two materials also use the same technique to ensure smooth and natural splicing between materials. When splicing, if it is difficult to grasp the position between materials, you can increase their transparency appropriately, so that splicing is easier.

At this point, you should have achieved this effect. Don't worry about how it looks at this time, because the most important goal now is to align them.

After stitching all the materials with PS, create a mask on each layer and slowly erase the seams between layers with a brush.

Smearing and removing seams is a time-consuming job, and we can make full use of all parts of each material to fill each other.

I also used two adjustment layers, curve and hue/saturation, to adjust each material so that they can better adapt to each other.

Finally, when the stitching and transition are completed, we need to make further adjustments to the picture. For example, I need to adjust the color and saturation of this picture and remove the lens halo.

Finally, the finished product is finished! All this is not as difficult as you first thought, is it? All you need is a drone, a suitable theme, Photoshop and some spare time. I hope this tutorial can help you!