Here is my take on everything I read above. All good useful info, but here is what I do. I’ve been flying RC over 30 years and flying drones is super easy, but still challenging when I’m literally in the trees trimming leaves to get my shots of rear decks etc.
Being a paid photographer with DSLR cameras, I at first started using my
P4P in aperture priority, shutter priority or just plane manual. I found that unless it’s unusually windy, I just now shoot in full auto but set my white balance (never auto on WB). I shoot in raw and watch my histogram. Raw captures more shadows and highlights then jpeg (which is compressed).
Being high up, I found depth of field isn’t an issue so I don’t worry about aperture except on extremely windy days where I want a fast shutter so I set shutter to at least 1/500 which usually sets aperture wide open especially if I have ND filters on.
I do occasionally use AEB (bracketed exposure) on very bright days and use ND filters too when required (if histogram too far to the right). Adobe has a merge HDR which combines your exposures... if you don’t want to do it yourself.
Inside pictures are a different category of course but outside I just set WB and monitor histogram, and shoot in raw and use photoshop to tone in adobe camera raw. There’s even camera corrections for DJI drones in there to correct distortion and chromatic aberration.
I usually tone down highlights, raise shadows, and go from there.