Aerial Photography Exeter
Property Photography
Aerial stills and video of a property, a plot of land or a development site, framed the way a listing or a sales pack needs it framed, licensed for your use.
A ground level listing photograph can only ever show what the front of a building looks like. It cannot show the size of a plot, how the garden sits against neighbouring land, whether there is a view worth mentioning, or how a development is laid out across its site. That is the gap an aerial shot fills, and it is usually the image a buyer looks at longest.
This covers three related jobs: a single property for sale or to let, land and boundaries where the shape and extent of a plot matters more than any one building on it, and development sites where a sales or marketing team needs to show plots, roads and progress as they stand.
The brief decides the flight. A single house needs a handful of considered angles. A development site or a large plot usually needs a wider, more systematic pass so nothing relevant is left out of frame.
What is included
- Wide establishing shots showing the property in its setting
- Closer angles picking out a garden, a view, a driveway or an outbuilding
- Boundary and plot shots where extent and shape matter
- Straight-down and oblique angles for development and site marketing
- Editing and colour grading before delivery, not raw files
- A licence to use every image in your listing, sales pack or marketing
- Formats sized for print and for web
Why the angle matters more than the megapixels
A high resolution camera helps, but it is not what sells a property. The angle that shows a garden's actual size, the one that catches a view over a valley or an estuary, the one that shows a plot's real shape against its neighbours, those are decided before the aircraft leaves the ground, not discovered afterwards by scrolling through a card full of frames.
That is the difference between a photograph and a listing photograph. The second one is built around a question a buyer is actually asking, how big is it, what can I see from it, how does it sit on the plot, and the flight is planned to answer that question rather than just document the building.
Land, boundaries and development sites
Land without a building on it is one of the hardest things to photograph well from the ground, because there is nothing for the eye to anchor on and no way to show extent or shape. From the air a boundary reads clearly, and so does how a plot relates to a road, a watercourse or the land around it.
Development sites carry the same problem at a larger scale. A sales and marketing team needs images that show plots, roads and progress in a way a site hoarding or a ground level photograph cannot manage, and that is usually a repeat booking as a scheme progresses rather than a single shoot.
On the day
How a property photography runs
- Step 1
The brief
What the images need to show and where they will be used, a listing, a sales pack, a planning submission. That decides which angles actually matter.
- Step 2
Site check
Address checked for airspace restrictions and a lawful take off point before the booking is confirmed, so nothing gets discovered on the day.
- Step 3
The flight
A planned set of passes covering the agreed angles, timed for light where that has been asked for. Half an hour for a single property, longer for a site or a large plot.
- Step 4
The edit
Frames selected, graded and cropped, then delivered within 48 hours, ready to drop into a listing or a sales pack.
Behind the work
Kit, cover and qualifications
CAA registered
Operator ID and Flyer ID held, plus the A2 Certificate of Competency. Every flight is planned to the rules that apply to the site, and the paperwork is available before the visit if your agent, venue or planning team wants it.
100 megapixel camera
A DJI Mavic 4 Pro with a Hasselblad camera and 6K video. The resolution is what lets a still be cropped hard for a brochure detail shot and still hold together on a large screen or in print.
Edited and licensed
Images are colour graded and cropped before delivery, not sent raw off the card. Every set comes with a licence for your own use, so you are not paying again to put the photograph in a listing or a campaign.
Insured with Coverdrone
Full commercial cover for the operation. Certificates go to agents, venues and marketing teams as a matter of course, without anyone having to chase for them.
Property photography
Property Photography questions
- Can you shoot a property that is not yet on the market?
- Yes. Plenty of bookings come in before a listing goes live, so the agent has the images ready for launch rather than commissioning them after the fact.
- Do you need the owner's permission to fly?
- Yes, and it is worth confirming before booking. If you are instructing on behalf of an owner or a vendor, a short note is provided if it helps the conversation.
- Can you shoot the same development site more than once?
- Yes, and it is common for marketing teams tracking progress across a build. The same angles get repeated each time so the images sit together in a campaign.
Where
Property Photography across the South West
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Get a quote with Aerial Photography Exeter
Tell us what you need photographed, where and when. Sam Hembury will come back with a fixed price and the next available slot.