Copacabana: a top-down drone portrait AI photoshoot in Rio
Copacabana is a drone portrait shoot over Rio's black-and-white wave mosaic promenade, shot straight down in early morning light. Stone curves fill the frame, and one canary-yellow figure throws a long shadow across them.
- Camera
- Drone, straight down
- Lens
- 24 mm
- Time
- Morning
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Six frames from this shoot
Five frames and one detail, made by haloshot from three phone photos of one person.
Frame 1 · Copacabana 
Frame 2 · Copacabana 
Frame 3 · Copacabana 
Frame 4 · Copacabana 
Frame 5 · Copacabana 
Detail · Copacabana
About the top-down drone look
Most frames look directly down from a drone with a 24 mm-equivalent lens, which flattens the pavement into pure graphic pattern. A few come lower and closer for the face. Low morning sun rakes across the stones and stretches the shadow several body lengths. Contrast is high and clean, with nothing moving, so the shape of the pose carries each picture.
Clothes, place and when to pick it
Yellow is the only color hit: a plain oversized canary mesh jersey, huge baggy shorts, white socks, black slides and a silver chain. haloshot places your face looking up at the lens. It works for a summer grid, a playful profile picture or a poster-like banner.
How it works
Add three photos of yourself: face, half turn and full length. haloshot renders a free five-frame preview of Copacabana with your face. Pick the frames you like and keep them in 4:5 HD.
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