52 Assignments: Drone Photography - by Fergus Kennedy (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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 personalized journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful and 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 in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagination. Complete the assignments week by week over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your drone photography.

From composing stunning landscape vistas and taking aerial selfies to videoing a voyage through a forest or using waypoints to take the same shot at different times day and night, this book is a guide for readers to learn something new or try something innovative with their existing skills within the dynamic and developing world of drone photography.

Review Quotes

Photographic Society of America Journal July 2024
"Drones have been around for quite some time and interest in using them to photograph has increased. The 52 Assignments series of books by this publisher focuses on various topics of interest to photographers and delves deeply into each of them. Each of the 52 assignments gives tips, offers suggestions, and demonstrates with examples of photographs that can achieved by following the assignments. In 52 Assignments: Drone Photography, 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."

Amateur Photographer magazine issue, 5th March 2024
"[52 Assignments: Drone Photography] offers 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."

Photographic Society of America Journal March 2024
"Authors Mark Bauer and Ross Hoddinott are two leading landscape photographers in the UK and have presented their combined techniques for achieving professional-looking results with your photography. Written in an easy-to-follow style, you will first be guided on such essentials as equipment, exposure, composition, lighting, and the use of filters. Then you will learn techniques for post-processing, including an exposure blending tutorial and a segment on black and white images. Following this is a section on printing your images including paper types, and monitor calibration. Finally, you will be presented with a number of practical assignments that will expand and refresh your knowledge as it challenges and motivates you to produce stunning landscape images of your own."