Drone aerial photography provides a unique outdoor perspective of our world that captures the shapes, colours and delicate details within the landscape or structures below.
Drones can be flown as a hobby or commercial enterprise. Drone photography shows our amazing world in an enlightening and incredible new light and depending on your private or commercial budget and end-use there is likely a drone model to suit you.
TO LOVE SKY VIEWS IS TO LOVE DRONE AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
From adventure photography, commercial business, real estate, industrial inspection, agriculture, aerial surveying, surveillance, search and rescue, nature and wildlife photography, there is a vast array of amazing and important imagery and uses for drones the world over.
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Advantages of drone photography
One of the advantages of drone photography in most jurisdictions is the ability to experiment with your equipment and perfect your settings and shoot angles in a non-commercial setting before becoming a professional and earning an income from it. Drones in a commercial sense are a more-specialized genre of business photography that requires strict adherence to flying rules and licencing from federal aviation authorities.
Drone types
There are a vast number of drone types to suit whatever photography or application you’re interested in. Most non-military drones have GPS connectivity that allows the pilot to control the drone according to position and elevation. Multi-rotor drones (usually 4 propellers) provide a more stable flight for good quality photo and video. Other drones are what is called Racing Drones.
These are usually called FPV, or First-Person View drones with the pilot usually using a head mounted display with live camera feed. Whilst not a photography drone, FPV drones are at the competitive and sporting end of the drone spectrum.
Drone safety and licencing requirements
Aerial drone photography has gained an immense foothold as a growing genre of photography over the past 10 years. So much so that it has been identified worldwide that the prevalence and numbers of drones in both the private and commercial sector pose a safety threat to both the general public on the ground and to the safety of aircraft.
Local and federal governments around the world have enacted legislation requiring correct use of drones for both private and commercial operators. Federal-level drone information, rules, licensing, and regulations for some countries can be found here:
Australia: Civil Aviation Safety Authority, CASA
Canada: Transport Canada, TC
New Zealand: Civil Aviation Authority, CAA
United Kingdom: Civil Aviation Authority, CAA
United States: Federal Aviation Administration, FAA
Before flying check your federal authority for federal aviation rules and regulations and check your local authority for additional local legislation and by-laws that may affect your flight.
Drone photography offers a different view of the world!
Have fun with your drone but fly safely and fly within the rules.
