PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE

A photographing method and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The method comprises: controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle to fly according to a preset air route, wherein the preset air route comprises a plurality of waypoints, and a photographing point is provided between adjacent waypoints and/or some or all of the plurality of waypoints are used as the photographing points; controlling a gimbal (300) on the unmanned aerial vehicle to switch a gesture in a process that the unmanned aerial vehicle flies from the current photographing point to the next photographing point, so that a photographing device (200) on the gimbal (300) is always in a preset gesture on each photographing point; and acquiring an image photographed by the photographing device (200) on each photographing point, wherein multiple continuous photographing points form a queue, and adjacent queues at least have photographing points having the same preset gesture. The unmanned aerial vehicle is not required to stop flying during a photographing proc