HOVERAir X1 to Transform Aerial Photography

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HOVERAir X1 to Transform Aerial Photography

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In the ever-evolving world of drone technology, where innovation meets creativity, one name stands out: **HOVERAir X1** by **Zero Zero Robotics**. This pocket-sized self-flying aerial camera has set a new standard for easy, fun, and captivating photography experiences. In this comprehensive review, we will dive deep into the remarkable features of this drone that is … Read more

In the ever-evolving world of drone technology, where innovation meets creativity, one name stands out: **HOVERAir X1** by **Zero Zero Robotics**. This pocket-sized self-flying aerial camera has set a new standard for easy, fun, and captivating photography experiences. In this comprehensive review, we will dive deep into the remarkable features of this drone that is changing the way we capture moments from above.

A glimpse of the future

The HOVERAir X1 is a camera drone that redefines the concepts of portability and simplicity. From the moment you unbox it, its sleek carbon black or white finish hints at the powerful technology within. Weighing just 125g, its compact design allows it to fit comfortably into your pocket or handbag.

Ease of use

One of the standout features of the HOVERAir X1 is its ease of use. Unlike many drones that require a controller or complex app setup, the X1 is ready to fly with just the press of a button. The enclosed design ensures safety around people, and its 3-second palm take-off and landing eliminate any learning curve. For those who want more control, the companion app offers options for customizing flight parameters, real-time previews, quick media editing, and seamless sharing.

Intelligent flight modes

HOVERAir X1 offers a range of flight modes that make capturing cinematic shots effortless. Fixed modes like Hover, Follow, Zoom Out, Orbit, and Bird’s Eye cater to various scenarios, while advanced in-app modes like Snapshot and Dolly Track provide even more creative options. The camera’s ability to smoothly track subjects while maintaining stable footage elevates your content to professional levels.

Capturing the world in stunning detail

The integration of triple stabilization—a mechanical gimbal, electronic image stabilization, and horizon leveling—ensures the HOVERAir X1 delivers super-smooth videos. Advanced computer vision algorithms keep the drone locked onto your subject, even during dynamic activities like running or biking. The VIO technology and ToF laser altitude determination system enable centimeter-level precision, allowing seamless indoor and outdoor transitions.

With its 2.7K and 1080p capabilities, the HOVERAir X1 produces high-quality videos that capture every detail of your adventures. The Burst Mode is perfect for capturing fast-paced action, while HDR support enhances contrast and color accuracy. The results are stunning, ensuring your memories are portrayed with the brilliance they deserve.

Seamless shooting and Rrmote control

The Hover X1 APP serves as your digital cockpit, enabling you to connect your HOVERAir X1 to your smartphone effortlessly. Once connected, you gain remote control over the drone’s flight using virtual buttons on your phone’s screen. This means you can initiate take-offs, landings, and maneuvers with just a tap, providing an unparalleled level of convenience for those moments when you want to capture the perfect shot without fumbling for a controller.

Real-time preview

One of the most exciting features of the Hover X1 APP is the real-time preview function. As your drone takes to the skies, the app provides a live feed of what the HOVERAir X1’s camera is capturing. This not only lets you frame your shots with precision but also allows you to make on-the-fly adjustments to achieve the perfect composition. Whether you are capturing sweeping landscapes or following a subject in motion, the real-time preview empowers you to fine-tune your shots and ensures you never miss the shot you envision.

Download and browse clips

Once you have completed your flight, the Hover X1 APP continues to be your companion in the post-flight phase. All the clips and media you have captured with the drone can be easily downloaded and accessed in the app’s Memory section. This centralized storage makes it convenient to review, select, and edit your footage right on your smartphone.

Effortless sharing on social media

The Hover X1 APP streamlines the sharing process, allowing you to effortlessly share your content on social media platforms. With just one click, you can send your beautifully captured aerial footage to your preferred social media channels. This feature makes sharing your adventures and experiences with friends, family, and followers an instant and hassle-free process.

Battery life

The heart of any drone’s performance lies in its battery life, and the HOVERAir X1 doesn’t disappoint. With a powerful 1050 mAh battery at its core, this compact wonder delivers an impressive 11+ minutes of flight time. But what truly sets the HOVERAir X1 apart is not just the numbers, but the practicality it brings to the table.

Unlike traditional remote-controlled drones that often require setup time before you can grab your shot, the HOVERAir X1 eliminates these barriers. Every second of its flight time is devoted to creating usable, shareable content. No more struggling with complex configurations or spending precious minutes getting your drone ready for action. With the HOVERAir X1, you are not just getting flight time; you are getting content creation time.

Flight environment and regulations

The HoverAir X1 provides a stable flight experience thanks to its VIO positioning system and wind resistance of up to level 4. However, users should adhere to recommended flight environments and regulations to ensure safe operation. Operating within line of sight, avoiding dark areas and unclear ground textures, such as vast solid color ground, water surfaces, or transparent regions, as well as areas with strong reflections or rapidly changing lighting conditions, restricted zones and compliance with local laws, all constitute critical aspects of responsible drone usage.

Make flying fun again with the HOVERAir X1

In the rapidly evolving world of drones, the HOVERAir X1 Self-Flying Camera (Standard Combo) stands out as an exceptional choice. With its advanced AI capabilities, powerful camera module, and user-friendly controls, this drone redefines the way we capture the world from above.

Whether you are a photography enthusiast, a content creator, or a professional in need of a reliable aerial tool, the HOVERAir X1 is a testament to Zero Zero Robotics’s dedication to innovation and excellence in the drone industry. So, don’t just take our word for it—take flight with the HOVERAir X1 and experience the future of aerial exploration for yourself. Capture your moments from a whole new perspective and make flying fun again with the HOVERAir X1 by Zero Zero Robotics.

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Native Jackson Hole: Discover treasures of the West

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Native Jackson Hole: Discover treasures of the West
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Native Jackson Hole is a staple for Western art anchored by its one-of-a-kind jewelry and captivating artwork. For more than 30 years the gallery has represented artists known for iconic jewelry, fine art and lifestyle pieces that celebrate the classic elegance of life in the Tetons, both past and present.

“It is the place where original and exquisite jewelry converge,” said Cristina Calcai, manager of Native JH.

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The metamorphosis of the Tetons: An art market takes shape

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The metamorphosis of the Tetons: An art market takes shape
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Camille Obering grew up in Jackson Hole. Left for school and went on to explore the world before choosing New York City to work in the art world. In 2008 she returned home to the West Bank to open her fine art dealership, curatorial service and art advisory firm.

“I came back to Jackson with the idea that there was a growing interest in modern and contemporary art, rather than primarily landscape and Western art, which had traditionally been the focus,” she said.

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Two very different Bostons, two less different photographers

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Two very different Bostons, two less different photographers
Irene Shwachman, “Washington Street, Adams Square,” May 23, 1962.Boston Athenaeum

Berenice Abbott’s book “Changing New York” (1939) is one of the great photographic documents. Inspired by Eugène Atget’s visual chronicling of Paris in the first quarter of the 20th century, Abbott sought to do something similar for New York.

Before New York there was Boston, albeit on a much smaller scale and far shorter span of time. The architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock commissioned Abbott to photograph several East Coast cities in 1934. Boston was one of them. The Boston Athenaeum has 24 of those photographs in its collection. Seventeen of them, along with two from 1954, and 25 photographs of Boston in the ‘50s and (mostly) ‘60s by her friend Irene Shwachman are in “Developing Boston: Berenice Abbott and Irene Shwachman Photograph a Changing City.”

Berenice Abbott, “Washington Street at Adams Square,” 1934.Boston Athenaeum

The show, which runs at the Athenaeum through Dec. 30, achieves the happy effect of feeling extensive while being quite compact. It also includes two maps, a Shwachman portrait of Abbott, a Shwachman self-portrait, several sets of her negatives, an invitation to a 1962 Athenaeum show of her work, a Boston Globe article about that show, a copy of “Changing New York,” and copies of three books about Atget.

Irene Shwachman, “The West End. 18th- and 19th-Century Buildings,” January 25, 1959.Boston Athenaeum

Abbott (1898-1991) you’ve heard about. Shwachman (1915-1988) is nowhere near as well known. Starting in 1959, she spent nine years working on what she called “The Boston Document.” It consists of more than 3,500 negatives, showing the transformation of the city during those years. Most of that time, she worked on her own. From 1962-63, she was employed as a photographer by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (today’s Boston Planning & Development Agency), until a project manager fired her. He was shocked, shocked, to learn that the BRA was employing a photographer who was a woman.

Berenice Abbott, “70-73 Beacon Street,” 1934.Boston Athenaeum

Shwachman’s photographs in “Developing Boston” hold their own against Abbott’s, both because there are more of them and because of the nature of the city each woman was documenting. In 1934, “changing” was not a word that much described Boston. There’s a static quality to many of Abbott’s photographs here. A picture of Beacon Street facades could be mistaken for Atget’s Paris (not that that’s a bad thing). That’s owing in part to the architecture and in part to the relatively long exposure times required by Abbott’s view camera. Even so, there’s a sense of a city that, while by no means lifeless, is far from vibrant.

Irene Shwachman, “Noonan’s Food Store, Reed and Lenox Streets, South End,” July 2, 1965.Boston Athenaeum

That reflected the city’s economic situation. The Great Depression only worsened a decline that had been going on for years. The city Shwachman recorded was in the throes of making up for lost time. The West End was being torn down (Shwachman’s husband had grown up there and urged her to chronicle its destruction). Government Center was replacing Scollay and Adams squares. Even when a given neighborhood wasn’t affected, the larger impact could be felt. What stands out in a charming picture of a corner store in the South End from 1965 is the signage. Look closer, though, and looming in the background is the recently completed Prudential Building. It’s on sentry duty for the future.

The Athenaeum’s Lauren Graves, who curated the show, has done something slightly risky. She intersperses Abbott’s and Shwachman’s photographs. Sometimes adjacent photographs are even of the same subject: Faneuil Hall, the Old State House, the Harrison Gray Otis House.

Berenice Abbott, “57 Hancock Street,” 1934.Boston Athenaeum

This interweaving is risky for two reasons. With all due respect to Shwachman, she wasn’t the photographer Abbott was (as she’d have been the first to admit). Conversely, the city Shwachman had in front of her camera was so much more dynamic. Yet the quality of both photographers’ work and the expertness of the hanging mean that risk turns into reward. Each enhances, and enlarges, the other.

“Developing Boston” has two pendants. One consists of 10 photographs of Boston and Cambridge taken by local teenagers under the sponsorship of the Boston nonprofit Artists for Humanity. Talented beyond their years, the photographers are Nancy Gonzales, Victoria Kutta, Rose Narcisse, and Alexander Vazquez.

Paul Caponigro, “Eaton Street, West End,” Boston, 1959.Boston Athenaeum

“The Caponigro Collection: Boston in 1959,″ which also runs through Dec. 30, comprises 11 black-and-white photographs taken in that year by Paul Caponigro. Nine are of the West End, two of Back Bay. These facades, doorways, and exteriors have such character they almost feel like interiors. They recall Abbott’s advice to Shwachman: “The buildings are the people.” The size of the images, in the vicinity of 5 inches by 3 inches or the reverse, adds to their very considerable appeal. They’re also striking for being so uncharacteristic. Caponigro, who turns 91 in December, is best known for deeply spiritual landscapes, still lifes, and nature studies. These are very different. The show could just as aptly have been called “Developing Caponigro.”

DEVELOPING BOSTON: Berenice Abbott and Irene Shwachman Photograph a Changing City

THE CAPONIGRO COLLECTION: Boston in 1959

At Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon St., through Dec. 30. 617-227-0270, bostonathenaeum.org

Mark Feeney can be reached at mark.feeney@globe.com.

Underground art surfaces at Chelsea exhibit

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Underground art surfaces at Chelsea exhibit

During the pandemic lockdown, School of Visual Arts faculty member, Peter Hristoff, taught an online drawing class.

As students drew a model holding tulips to his mouth very much like a trumpet or a bugle, he was doing the same. That drawing was the inspiration for Hristoff’s subway poster.

“I think that there is something that the poster implies that is kind of heralding something good, good news, something better to come,” said Hristoff.

Hristoff’s poster is one of more than 200 from the college’s subway posters collection, which have been covering station walls around the five boroughs for 75 years.

What You Need To Know

  • “Underground Images: A History” is an exhibition at the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery

  • It features more than 200 posters from the college’s iconic Subway Posters collection

  • The posters have been featured on the walls of subway stations for almost 75 years

  • It’s the first-ever comprehensive retrospective for the subway posters collection to be exhibited in New York City

It’s all part of an exhibition at SVA’s Chelsea Gallery called “Underground Images: A History.”

SVA, then known as Cartoonists and Illustrators School, commissioned the posters from some of its most esteemed faculty members as a marketing campaign with an extra artistic flair.

“They grab you by the lapels and shake you up, and make you look, and so it’s been a very successful campaign that way,” said Francis Di Tommaso, director of SVA Galleries.

The exhibition brings together the complete series of works from 93 artists including Milton Glaser, who created the “I Love New York” logo and the post 9/11 follow-up on one of the posters which says, “I Love NY More Than Ever” with a stain covering part of the familiar heart logo.

Hristoff was born in Turkey and raised in Queens and has been affiliated with SVA for almost all of the past 47 years. He said creating one of the posters was something he hoped to do when he first walked into the school as a student in the mid-1970s.

“They function certainly in a way as public art in the subways, but also for the community, for the students, they are actually something that we look up to to a kind of possibility in the art world, whether you are a designer, an illustrator, a fine artist or photographer,” said Hristoff.

Visitors can check out every one of them at the gallery through Oct. 14, and admission is free.

Plan your visit at sva.edu/about/exhibitions.

Opinion | ‘It’s Fun to Be Alive’: 13 Older Photographers Show Us Their Work

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Opinion | ‘It’s Fun to Be Alive’: 13 Older Photographers Show Us Their Work
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Larry Fink, 82: The thing is, I’m 82. The crescendo of my life is over, and the crashing waves are soon to come. Which is to say, death is foreboding. I’m in pretty good shape. I have this disease and that disease. But basically, I’m still jumping around. Whatever that’s worth, it’s fun to be alive. I tell you what: I really love my wife.

Martha Posner (pictured below): Say somewhere in the interview that I love Larry, too.

‘Up close and personal’: LensCulture street photography awards

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‘Up close and personal’: LensCulture street photography awards
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Ones Among the All by Caroline Grimprel (Juror’s pick, series)

Caroline Grimprel: ‘Before living in Japan, I didn’t know much about its aesthetics. I imagined Tokyo as an Asian New York: bustling, noisy, fast. It was quite the opposite: quiet voices due to cultural etiquette, quiet restaurants because of an absence of metal cutlery, silence in the metro. The smallest towns and countryside felt depopulated. When I look at all of these photos, it is this serenity and loneliness that comes through the most. Individuals isolated in large ensembles, perfectly positioned in these settings’

With a good eye at the plate and behind the camera, Nathaniel Lowe stays in the moment

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With a good eye at the plate and behind the camera, Nathaniel Lowe stays in the moment

has a good eye. That’s important when you’re a baseball player, needing to determine if it’s a fastball or slider, ball or strike, in roughly 250 milliseconds — roughly the time of a sixteenth-note in a 60 BPM song. He’s put that to good use: His .371 OBP is second-best on the Rangers — behind only AL MVP candidate Corey Seager — and his 37 doubles are best in the American League.

But Lowe doesn’t just use those discerning peepers on the field. When the 2022 Silver Slugger Award-winner isn’t at the park, you’re likely to find him peering at the world through his camera’s viewfinder. You see, Lowe has become quite the photographer over the years — ever since his mother gave him a camera when he was just 20 years old.

“My grandmother had a nice camera when I was a kid,” Lowe said at the MLB Studios last week, one morning after knocking in the game-winning run against the Mets. “And then my mom got me a camera. That was my starter kit. It just kind of worked from there. Photography makes you pay attention to where you’re at and take it all in and be pretty present. It’s a nice reminder: That’s what’s most important.”

With Lowe feeling the good vibes from the night before, the two of us got up to talking about his photography, what he looks for when he’s sizing up a shot, and we even broke down a few of my favorite pics he’s uploaded to Instagram. Here is our conversation below, edited slightly for length and readability.

MLB: So, the first camera came from your mom. Have you upgraded over the years?

Nathaniel Lowe: Yeah, once or twice. It’s a not a great thing, but anybody that takes pictures will tell you that the gear is a dark hole. You fall down the rabbit hole and spend too much money in a hurry. So yeah, my cameras are way smarter than me. They’re nicer than any camera I ever need, but they work for me.

MLB: So, 2 a.m., you’re in bed and can’t take photos, you’re out there looking at lenses? 

Lowe: Unfortunately! My targeted ads on Instagram are just ruining me. Like, all the lenses are too nice and the cameras are too nice. I find a way to leave the cap on and pull the trigger a couple of times. I guess that’s photography.

MLB: Part of your job is travelling and seeing the world. Now you try and distill that in an image. What is it that that you look for in a photo? What is it that you’re trying to capture?

Lowe: This year has been a lot out the window of the airplane. I haven’t really published anything — I guess that’s a word for it. But yeah, we’ve had some pretty cool times where we’re getting out after a day game and getting around a thunderstorm or travelling on the West Coast while the sun is setting. The flight from anywhere in Southern California up to Seattle while the sun setting is one of my favorite flights. I think we’ve done that twice now.

MLB: You mentioned that photography helps keep you in the present. Now, baseball is a really stressful job. Is this something that also allows you to relax if away from the field?

Lowe: Yeah, absolutely. If you start looking ahead too far on the baseball field — you look two or three games out and are trying to do too much, the game piles up in a hurry. Being present, being simple and doing one thing at a time is very important.

MLB: How do your teammates react? Are they into it? Are they asking you to be the wedding photographer for them?

Lowe: I try not to step on anybody’s toes and stick it in their faces. But we’ve got some we got some pretty fun characters in the clubhouse, so I’ll probably bust it out. I’d like to make sure that it’s waterproof coming down the stretch. We’ll see how that goes.

MLB: One thing I noticed in a lot of your photos, you have a really great eye for geometry, lines and patterns. Is that something you’re thinking about when setting up a shot? Is it in editing that you really find what you wanted to capture?

Lowe: I think that photos invoke feelings of where you’re at and what you’re doing at the time. It’s a reminder that you want things — ideally — to be clean and organized. Inevitably, it goes awry, but’s important to have it all lined up how I want it be lined up. I just know if the subject comes out how I want it to come out, then I think it’s a good picture.

MLB: That’s a good transition. I wanted to discuss a few of your photos specifically. I’d love to know what you were thinking or what caught your eye at the time. So this one was from 15 weeks ago, I think in Chicago.

Lowe: Yes, that’s Chicago. So, Chicago’s sunset is beautiful, right? Like, the cotton candy sky and the pink and all that stuff. That’s not something you get many other places. So yeah, the darker street and then a big building reflecting a sunset in the background — I really enjoyed how the colors looked and I felt like it turned out pretty nice.

MLB: This one of four fighter jets is one of my favorites. It’s so crisp and clean.

Lowe: Spring training is a treat because the Air Force Base is a couple miles south of the stadium. So when these F-35s are flying in there, it hits home because my dad was a military pilot. And then there’s something about — same thing — the sunset and the rocks and then sometimes the symmetry of when they’re up there doing their thing. That’d be a pretty close second to my job, that seems like a lot of fun.

MLB: That’s right, your Dad was in the real Top Gun fighter school. So, have to know: Is the movie real?

Lowe: I mean, he memorized the whole thing. He was a Top Gun encyclopedia for a while there when it was all the craze. That was his job and I can’t let it go to his head, but it’s kind of cool.

MLB: Back to photography again. This one is very different from the other two we’ve looked at.

Lowe: Yeah, this is in the Pike Place Market down in Seattle. I thought the bustle was pretty cool. This is before I really paid any attention to neon signs. It makes it easy for the autofocus of the camera to just to wrap it all in and get all the light in there. I’d love to set up a tripod and do a real slow exposure, so the people are all blurred. I just haven’t committed to it. But yeah, I like walking through there. It’s just so different from what I grew up in.

MLB: Now, last one. This one is from the ballpark, but it’s certainly not your standard ballpark photo.

Lowe: Oh yeah, the catwalk! I love going up on the catwalk and Globe Life Field is so nice, like, they really just went all out with it. I think we threw a couple baseballs down there to see how long it would take them to fall. We took the cameras up there and saw where the the pyro stuff is for the fireworks. Not everybody really gets that view, so getting up there and getting on the catwalk was a treat.

I love the symmetry of all the seats and how it’s all regimented and then, ideally, things go a little haywire in between the foul lines. It’s funny how the stadium is symmetrical and organized and then on the field can sometimes be such a mess.

MLB: Do you have a dream of something you’d love to shoot one day?

Lowe: I’d love to shoot baseball. I think shooting baseball would be great, especially after being on the field and feeling the emotions and seeing the game flow and being able to capture the whole picture. Like, sometimes you see those sunset pictures on the prairie in Kansas City or in Denver, like, that’s super cool. I’d love to [do something similar with a baseball game.]

MLB: So, you don’t necessarily want to do game photography. 

Lowe: Shooting game stuff would be great, but at the same time, most of the stadiums are really great and a work of art. Anytime you can take that in and just be appreciative of where you get to go to work, it’s super cool.

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