Helicopter and fixed-wing

Aerial photography

We capture high-resolution aerial imagery using fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Ideal for real estate marketing, construction progress, and large tracts of land, each mission is meticulously planned and flown.

A drone is the right tool below 400 feet. Above that, and across anything larger than a single parcel, it is an aircraft. We have flown both since 1987, so the platform gets chosen to suit the site rather than to suit what happens to be in the van.

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How we shoot it

Helicopter
The workhorse for oblique angles and tight positioning. A helicopter can hold a position, work a site from several headings in one visit, and get low over a subject that a fixed-wing pass would cross in seconds.
Fixed-wing
The economical choice for altitude and for covering ground. Large tracts, long corridors, and whole-development context shots are all cheaper and sharper from a plane than from anything that has to hover.
Scheduled monthly flights
We already fly the Tampa Bay region on a monthly cycle. Adding your site to an existing flight is the least expensive way to buy aerial coverage, and it is how most progress sets are shot.
Planned to the frame
Sun angle, approach heading, and altitude are decided before the aircraft leaves the ground. That is what the word meticulous is doing in the line above, and it is the difference between a photograph and a snapshot taken out of a window.

Drone or aircraft

Two frames over similar neighbourhoods: one from a drone at 400 ft, one from a fixed-wing aircraft at 1,500 ft. Altitude decides how much of the area fits in one frame.

Drone, 400 ft
Fixed-wing, 1,500 ft

What it is for

If your project is on this list, we have shot it before. If it is not, it is still worth the call.

Construction progress, flown on a repeating schedule from a fixed position so the set cuts together as a sequence
Real estate and development marketing, where the context around a property is the selling point
Large tracts of land, master-planned communities, and anything too big to read from ground level
Site context and approach shots for planning submissions and investor material
Annual or seasonal re-shoots of a property already in our library

What you get back

Colour-corrected stills, ready to place. High-resolution files available upon request.
Repeat coverage flown from matched positions when a set has to stay consistent over time
Existing frames from our stock library where a site has been flown before

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