This is insane. So eerie with all the soviet signs rusted and stained buildings.
This just cements for me the fact that if you are a videographer you MUST at some point get a camera mounted to a quadrocopter because the shots will be unlike anything you could imagine.
Too bad it's so expensive right now and by the time it does become feasable it will be too heavily regulated.
That was great. Felt like I was watching the beginning of a movie.
Nice viral, when is the movie coming?
I was thinking about this a while ago, wondering if there was any drone footage of Chernobyl, don't remember finding anything.
This is gorgeous, I sort of have a thing for abandoned urban areas and shit, however. Didn't really care for the music though, I would have used something more empty feeling.
On 00:58, the huge sign on the building reads "Let the atom be a worker, not a soldier"
Kind of the thing I had in mind of doing, then again I need to buy a drone for this kind of stuff.
It's awesome to see what it'll look like, though. I loved the video, except I muted it and played this instead and it went very well with it:
[video=youtube;2bLSOWwD8FY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLSOWwD8FY[/video]
[QUOTE=xxncxx;46586257]That was great. Felt like I was watching the beginning of a movie.[/QUOTE]
Imagine this being the beginning of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R film
[QUOTE=pentium;46586237]This just cements for me the fact that if you are a videographer you MUST at some point get a camera mounted to a quadrocopter because the shots will be unlike anything you could imagine.
Too bad it's so expensive right now and by the time it does become feasable it will be too heavily regulated.[/QUOTE]
Best I can tell all you need to do is slap a raspberry pi with a camera to the quadrocopter, and have a cellular connection for sending commands over remote distances. Unless they were close by then the cellular connection wouldn't even be needed
Also what do you mean by regulated?
[QUOTE=pentium;46586237][B]This just cements for me the fact that if you are a videographer you MUST at some point get a camera mounted to a quadrocopter because the shots will be unlike anything you could imagine.[/B]
Too bad it's so expensive right now and by the time it does become feasable it will be too heavily regulated.[/QUOTE]
maybe if you want to do aerial videography?
drones can invade people's privacy without being noticed.
Looks so strange, it's like a city built in the middle of a forest.
But really it's a forest grown in the middle of a city.
[QUOTE=.Lain;46587065]maybe if you want to do aerial videography?[/QUOTE]
I think the point he's saying is that having a drone for video in your arsenal really expands your creative process.
Here's a fun fact I post whenever I see this stuff.
In the shots where you see gas masks all over the floor or strewn about is from after the evacuation. Gas masks wouldn't of helped anyone in this situation.
So years after everyone had left looters came to Pripyat and inside the basements of the schools, hospital and government buildings they kept crates of gas masks just in case. The looters dragged them upstairs, broken into them and than smashed the filters to take silver gaskets out of them which they than sold as scrap for a profit.
Now they're the source of eerie ass pictures.
im gonna go visit pripyat
[QUOTE=SGTSpartans;46588340]im gonna go visit pripyat[/QUOTE]
Why?
It's full of radiation and expensive.
I know it's cool but there surely are better places to go to for the same price.
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;46588453]Why?
It's full of radiation and expensive.
I know it's cool but there surely are better places to go to for the same price.[/QUOTE]
I dunno Chernobyl is really one of a kind. Unless you want to visit Mayak, the site of the largest nuclear disaster ever but that's literally one base.
There's a surprising lack of Russian Bandits screaming "ANUU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE"
Such is life in the zone
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;46588453]Why?
It's full of radiation and expensive.
I know it's cool but there surely are better places to go to for the same price.[/QUOTE]
Actually it's fairly safe with a guide.
I never think people quite grasp the gravity of these sorts of things. Pripyat was a city of over 50,000 people that all had to pick up and leave immediately because a reactor exploded or stay and die. It's just like...that used to be a city. That used to be peoples homes and livelihoods. And now it's Nature's again. And Nature is absolutely [I]thriving[/I] there. If you ever get a chance, watch the Chernobyl Wolves documentary. Or the episode of River Monsters where the dude fishes for cat fish in the reactor coolant pond.
Goddamned fascinating and and a good show of how horrifying our creations can be and how beautiful and strong nature is even after all we've done. And I'd go there is a heartbeat. If you asked me right now to go I would drop everything, flip the Thanksgiving table and leave.
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;46588453]Why?
It's full of radiation and expensive.
I know it's cool but there surely are better places to go to for the same price.[/QUOTE]
Pripyat got most of the radiation from the Chernobyl incident but I'm certain that you'd be fine visiting now, though you might want a detector. People live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
There's also few places you can go where humanity just picked up and left, and since hasn't been touched. I believe that Chernobyl and Pripyat function as wildlife sanctuaries for that very reason.
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;46588895]Pripyat got most of the radiation from the Chernobyl incident but I'm certain that you'd be fine visiting now, though you might want a detector. People live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
There's also few places you can go where humanity just picked up and left, and since hasn't been touched. I believe that Chernobyl and Pripyat function as wildlife sanctuaries for that very reason.[/QUOTE]
If I remember correctly its absolutely fine to visit Pripyat with a guide and follow a few rules. The radiation is still there but apparently its subsided to levels where it is not dangerous for short visits.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;46589255]If I remember correctly its absolutely fine to visit Pripyat with a guide and follow a few rules. The radiation is still there but apparently its subsided to levels where it is not dangerous for short visits.[/QUOTE]
Well, it's more like there's safe paths through, wandering off of them for too long is death. Especially around things like bones.
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If i remember right you have to have a guide, have to all have Geiger counters and all have to be scrubbed before and after your trip into the area.
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;46589397]Well, it's more like there's safe paths through, wandering off of them for too long is death. Especially around things like bones.
[editline]27th November 2014[/editline]
If i remember right you have to have a guide, have to all have Geiger counters and all have to be scrubbed before and after your trip into the area.[/QUOTE]
If I recall correctly, the really dangerous area is the red forest.
I got a similar feeling watching this to the one I got when watching Chris Hadfield's "Space Oddity" video where he float around in zero-gravity - this is the kind of stuff we're so used to seeing in movies, stuff we're usually used to acknowledging as being well-done special effects, but seeing it in a video for real, without it being special effects, is incredible, and sort of surreal. It feels like it shouldn't be real, like you're almost looking for the flaw that gives it away as being CG or something, but you have to remind yourself that it is.
[QUOTE=Feuver;46589450]If I recall correctly, the really dangerous area is the red forest.[/QUOTE]
It is. The trees absorbed so much radiation that they turned red and died, iirc.
[QUOTE=lintz;46587072]drones can invade people's privacy without being noticed.[/QUOTE]
fuck off.
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[QUOTE=pentium;46586237]This just cements for me the fact that if you are a videographer you MUST at some point get a camera mounted to a quadrocopter because the shots will be unlike anything you could imagine.
Too bad it's so expensive right now and by the time it does become feasable it will be too heavily regulated.[/QUOTE]
Expensive if you buy one as it is, i built my drone and the total was about 600-700$, including one of the best OSD with autopilot.
I really liked the music in the video.
Anyone know the name?
edit:
nvm found it
Hannah Miller – Promise land
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