DJI Spark Beginners Guide Video:
Spark Beginners Checklist
Before You Leave The House
- Unpack everything that came with the spark and take all factory stickers off
- Charge all your batteries, phone & controller
- Insert Micro SD card into Spark and format
- Turn on your spark at home and make sure every battery works and connects to the controller or phone
- Follow along with the video and adjust all your settings in every menu
- Do a test and record some footage and take some photos (don’t need to take off for this)
- Check all the media is okay.
- Reformat the card and recharge everything
- Check where you’re going to fly to see if there are any restrictions
- Find a flat surface to take off from
- Make sure there is no trees or power lines that will get in the way of your flight
- Turn on your Spark and controller
- Start your test flight.
- Make sure everything is connected and talking to each other
- Take off
- Hover for 20 seconds
- Take a test picture and video
- Land
- Make sure everything is connected and talking to each other
- If everything is working take off and start your first flight
- Flying: Try all the directions of flight. Use both joysticks together to make more complex shots
- Gimbal: Fly with the gimbal straight up and straight down. See what types of shots you can get with each
- Patterns: Now try some patterns
- Fly forwards and backwards both high and skimming right over the ground
- Point straight down and move in multiple directions
- Raise up & down a tall object
- Fly up and in a direction
- Try moving left or right while panning. Lightly use the pan joystick.
- Try to keep an object in the center of frame and circle them
- Reveal a landscape from coming out behind an object
- Follow a subject forwards and backwards.
- Follow a subject from the side
- Fly forwards and backwards both high and skimming right over the ground
- Photography: Now that you’ve played around with a ton of ways to fly lets go through the photography settings and try each
- Normal Photo
- Multiple Shots
- AEB (shoots multiple exposures to process later)
- Timed Shot
- Shallow Focus
- Panoramic both Vertical and Horizontal
- Normal Photo
- Video: Now that you’ve tried every feature with the photography lets get into the video features of the Spark
- Do a video and try some flying patterns
- Turn on your histogram.
- Try to adjust the exposure compensation for your auto settings both brighter and darker
- Switch to manual. Adjust ISO & Shutter to get a good exposure
- Play with your manual white balance. Try all the options
- Do a video and try some flying patterns
- Automation: The last section for any beginner flyer is to play with all the automation features. I put at the end because you need to learn how to fly using the joysticks before moving on to section
- Quickshot: Try each of these.
- Active Track: Try tracking a person and an object like a car.
- Tap Fly: Just use for an entire battery and see what kind of shots you can get.
- Tripod: Fly in small spaces. Between trees or out a door. Make sure your sensors are on so you don’t crash.
- Gesture: Take some pictures of you and your friends with
- Quickshot: Try each of these.