Final month, we confirmed you the greatest drone picture of 2023 (and the ten runners up). However what about the perfect drone video of 2023?
SkyPixel has named the winners of its eighth Annual Picture & Video Contest. The images had been beautiful, however the movies are transfixing. Among the many 65,000 submissions into this 12 months’s contest, this 12 months’s judging panel narrowed the video submissions to 1 grand prize winner.
That’s “Why I Journey the World Alone” by Bashir Abu Shakra. It’s an autobiographical quick movie that mixes sweeping mountaintop landscapes with the artist’s childhood household recordings in a undertaking that Shakra stated took 4 years to make.
Watch it on the SkyPixel web site right here.
“In such large tasks, persistence is the important thing,” Shakra stated. “I stored my greatest pictures unpublished for years ready for the entire undertaking to be accomplished. I even needed to take semesters off in school simply to have the ability to journey and full this undertaking, however that’s how a lot I believed in it.”
However as a result of it’s unattainable to slender the hundreds of entries right down to only one, SkyPixel additionally named 10 Video winners. Beneath are their title playing cards. Click on the picture under or this hyperlink to look at them on the SkyPixel web site:
And that’s not all. There are extra awards for Folks’s Alternative Classes and different Nominated Winners, which you’ll see right here.
Concerning the SkyPixel eighth Annual Picture & Video Contest
SkyPixel is a web-based aerial artwork neighborhood affiliated with DJI that runs an annual aerial artwork contest. Submissions should at all times be primarily filmed on a drone, although it doesn’t truly must be a DJI drone.
In fact, prizes are DJI (or DJI-adjacent). The grand prize winner of the SkyPixel eighth Annual Picture & Video Contest, Shakra, walked away with the Hasselblad 907X Anniversary Version Medium Format Digicam Equipment, which may typically retail at $15,100. The ten different winners acquired a DJI Mavic 3 Fly Extra Combo together with the upgraded DJI RC Professional, which is a higher-performance distant controller with an ultra-bright 1080p display screen and 15 km transmission vary.
To be eligible to win the title of greatest drone video of 2023, artists needed to add their work to SkyPixel in a submission interval that opened in November 2022 and ran via January 30, 2023. Submissions had been evaluated by a judging panel that included Phil Pastuhov, most well-known for his work as Director of Cinematography for The Lord of the Rings; Academy Award-winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda; and Nationwide Geographic’s Anne Farrar.
