this keeps happening to me and its driving me crazy. i look at the feed while im flying and think yeah this looks amazing, and then i pull the sd card and theyre just... flat. boring. like the drama is completely gone. im shooting in raw so its not a compression thing i dont think. maybe im just bad at editing, idk

happened again yesterday over some cliffs near the coast. the shot looked so good in the air and now its just another mediocre cliff photo. anyone else get this or am i missing something obvious

yeah the live feed on most drones is already applying some processing to make it pop, so what you see isnt really what youre capturing. raw files are gonna look flat until you grade them. try pulling up the highlights and adding some contrast first before you do anything else, usually that gets you most of the way there. also check if youre accidentally flying with d-log or a flat picture profile turned on, that'll make raws look even more lifeless if you dont know what your doing with them

honestly same problem plagues me. I've started just taking a quick jpeg alongside the raw as a reference so i know roughly what the drone 'wanted' it to look like. not a perfect solution but helps me figure out where to go with the edit at least. cliffs sound like a great spot btw, whereabouts if you dont mind me asking