FAA Part 107 Test: How to Prepare
Lesson 21 from: The Outdoor Enthusiast's Guide to Photography & MotionIan Shive
FAA Part 107 Test: How to Prepare
Lesson 21 from: The Outdoor Enthusiast's Guide to Photography & MotionIan Shive
Lessons
Bootcamp Introduction
06:35 2Storytelling with Stills and Motion Overview
14:35 3Elements of a Well-told Story
22:12 4Storytelling in Motion
34:19 5Choosing the Best Gear for Your Outdoor Project
16:24 6Gear for Drones
02:53 7Gear for Motion
05:23 8Inside Ian's Gear Bag
20:07General Advice for Preparation
14:19 10Virtual Scouting
03:54 11Weather
10:17 12Permits and Permission
03:09 13Model and Property Releases
04:43 14Health and Fitness
03:04 15Checklist
03:20 16Location Scouting Overview
15:18 17Location Scouting in the North Cascades
15:24 18Drone Introduction
14:59 19Drone Safety
03:26 20What Kind of Drone Should I Buy?
02:58 21FAA Part 107 Test: How to Prepare
06:18 22Telling a Story With a Drone
06:15 23Drone Camera, Lenses and Movements
04:34 24Selling Drone Footage
02:39 25Why Does a Photographer Need Motion?
10:59 26Establish the End User
06:35 27Identify Your Audience
03:12 28Build a Production Plan
05:28 29Create the Story Structure
04:26 30The Shooting Script
07:08 31Production Quality
08:37 32Composition for Stills
08:04 33Composition for Stills: Landscape
08:15 34Composition for Stills: Telephoto Lens
14:48 35Composition for Stills: Macro Lens
07:50 36Techniques for Capturing Motion in the Field
25:15 37Lenses and Filters for Outdoor Photography
26:20 38Capturing Landscapes - Part 1
28:12 39Capturing Landscapes - Part 2
23:36 40Capturing Movement in Stills
32:17 41Shooting Water, Sky and Panorama
29:40 42Understanding Stock
20:45 43Editorial vs Commerical
03:57 44Pricing Stock
05:40 45Producing Stock
14:49 46Shooting for Social Media vs Stock
11:37 47Choosing an Agency
08:58 48Assignments and Capturing Stock
13:49 49Stock Photography Market
05:28 50Create A Style Guide
05:30 51Stock Shoot Analysis
21:29 52Workflow for Selecting Final Stills
27:43 53Initial Editing in Adobe Bridge
21:02 54Reviewing and Selecting Motion Footage
11:02 55Keeping Track of Your Story Ideas
22:40 56Script and Story Structure Evolution
04:34 57Editing to the Content
05:00 58Music as a Character
05:41 59Business Diversification
07:07 60Business Strategy
04:57 61Pillars of Revenue
17:09 62Branding
06:36 63Partnerships and Brand Strategy
05:12 64Galleries and Fine Art
03:11 65Budgeting
05:21 66The Future of Photography
26:12 67Q&A And Critique
1:09:39Lesson Info
FAA Part 107 Test: How to Prepare
This is what it is called. Call the FAA part one of seven aeronautical knowledge test. It's a two hour, 60 question exam, and I will tell you you have to study. It is not easy. Um, I studied for about eight weeks for mine. You'll need to read this. This is weather. This is called the MIT Ours. It's basically the weather report and conditions based on ours. The visibility, etcetera. This is an aeronautical chart. You need to know what what everything on here is, and if you want to get a better look at it and it's it's not nearly as scary as you think. This is probably the easier part of the test. I actually created a drone guide for myself. I recommend you do that, and I have some recommendations on how to prepare for the exam. I created a cheat sheet, which my teaching is many pages long. It's ah, it's quite robust, and it is something you should do because it helps me with my process. If you read this, you wouldn't understand it. But I recommend writing down the key pieces like, what ...
are the different air spaces you need to know the difference between class A B C D E g right. You need to know all the different airspaces. How high can you fly? Can you fly in a military zone? Yeah, you can. Um it just depends. There's different rules, different classifications. And you have to really understand all of those things. How higher the towers, Where are you? Etcetera. So you need to learn latitude, longitude. You need to know the different access of control. Almost this entire written test is almost I think somebody said I'm not a full pilot, but I think some He said something like 75% of the actual pilots test. We're getting your private pilot license. I think the only difference is you don't actually have to learn how to fly the plane. Ironically, there's no flight test. You don't need to actually demo whether you can fly the drone. You know, it's funny, but, you know, the truth is, if you're willing to go to this length, you've probably spent some time already learning. I would hope how to fly it because there is a huge amount of responsibility that comes with this and this test will get to into that. But you need to eat No things like load factor. And you know, if you're banking on a turn and how fast you're going will determine whether the drone or aircraft will stay in the air. You know the landing patterns of planes at major airports like L. A X. You need to understand how that works. What? The airspace is classified at everything. It's very, very complicated. I mean, just looking at my list here, seeing the weather weathers huge weather is just a important for flying A drone is it isn't planning your photographer, you gotta know about do point. What does that mean? Where is it? Frees. What is the changing in temperature? Storm fronts all those kinds of things that shift upslope Adv Action Fog. What is it? Is it coming down the mountain? Is it going up the mountain? Is it going out to see your coming in from the sea? This is all part of drone flight test. So how do you prepare for it? Part one of seven exams. Study the guidelines on FAA safety dot gov I recommend starting there because it's relatively simple, but we'll give you a taste of this. And if you're like OK, I want to keep going. I really want to do this. You have a good understanding. You'll have a good groundwork to doing it. Um, so And it's also just an extra certification. So it's good to have, um, you have to do. You can't just go in and take the 60 question test. It's multiple choice. I can tell you now. You won't pass it if you're guessing, because it's not easy, even after eight weeks of studying on and I did very well on the test, but it was really complicated. I had to go through all 60 questions twice. You really, truly have to understand it, not just go in. And it's not like a like a, you know, a D M V test or something like that. The truly understand it, um, you have to actually taking a class. I used this one U A V ground school. Um, I know a lot of other professional photographers who have used the same. It was great. I passed the test after my first try, and, um, and they have rules on that, too, like you can't take it again. I think I forget, but I think it's at least 24 hours, and then there's, like a two week window after that or something like that. So I highly recommend this particular place. But you have to take an accredited class. You have to bring that certification in with you when you go to the FAA testing center, and then they make that part of the process of getting your actual pilot's license. It's pretty cool because you get a in actual F A. A sealed license and all that other stuff. Ultimately, um, study All the practice tests were really helpful. I took them repeatedly until I got consistent scores across the board. The questions are, the easy stuff is like learning the phonetic alphabet on. And you know, Charlie, don't tackle that kind of stuff. The hard stuff is really understanding the weather patterns and what they mean, what they are, where they're coming from. Knowing the different parts of an airplane, even though you're flying a drone got in other parts of an airplane, Um, so you need to understand stuff in a lot of it is because you may interact with those planes you need to know why a plane is landing at L. A X in a particular direction because you may be flying near there. Or maybe your drone loses control Union know where things are coming from. You need to be prepared. So that's a big part of why this is the way it is. Insurance is highly recommended. This is in my office as well. These are the cases. This is my my take care of my drone. So I have This really is my big one. Have a d g I inspire to Ah, shoot 5.2 Cable raw footage goes about 52 miles an hour ahead of multi. I think 4.5 mile radius a can go, I think to six under six. Forget how many thousands of feet think was at least 2000 feet. I know it was really high be. You know, you're limited to 400 feet by law without getting otherwise special special permission, but drones of a way of not coming back and mawr than likely your insurance will not cover that. There is a special drone insurance and some not cheap. Um, so you have to weigh what you want your protection level to be depending on where you are. It can run you a couple grand to ensure drone doesn't just ensure the drone. It insures the person or things that you may hit with it as well. Um, so hopefully that's not a problem, and you're being safe. But obviously protective gear protect you. Protect those around you.
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