How to Fly Your Drone for Real Estate Photography!
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Flying your drone for profit and real estate photography can be daunting. It's one thing to know how to fly a drone, but once you add the element of targeted outcomes and photos that people will pay you for, things are a little different. In this video I go through my personal process for shooting real estate with my drone. I have a formula that I follow for almost all my shoots with some occasional exceptions.
Before flying for any commercial purposes, you have to be sure to go through the proper avenues and most importantly have your Part 107 Certificate. I have another video on my profile reviewing some tough questions I faced on my exam if you are curious about what the test includes.
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This video came at the BEST time! So informative, thank you!
I love when things work out perfectly like that. Glad you got some useful information!
I had been watching several of your videos and appreciate the content you provide as you are a very skilled drone pilot with better experience than many others. You also work within my state of residency in addition so thank you.
Very informative. Great explanations!
Glad it was helpful! :)
Wow! This was amazing. Doing it without coming out of the vehicle and looking at the drone.
Having just recently passed the Part 107 test, I am keen to explore how to start earning money with my drone. Real estate pictures seems a good field to explore. I am curious though how you are able to fly from your car without keeping your drone in your line of sight. Can you obtain a waiver for this?
Usually I’ll keep my sunroof open and I park close to the property that I’m shooting. None of the shots require me to fly too far away from the house so the only time the drone is out of sight is when it’s temporarily behind a tree or momentarily behind the house for the last picture.
Thanks for the clarification. I have been nervous flying over and around my house and in class G airspace. When I do, it is usually below 50 feet, which I now realize is problematic, as noted by another comment in this thread. Being new to drone flying, I am victim of the psychological attribute that associates the ground with safety. Flying low is therefore less stressful that flying high. This feature makes it more likely to fly into obstacles, and for people on the ground to notice the drone and believe that they are being spied upon. It is similar to the psychological attribute that leads novices to reach for the shore when a kayak tips that way, when the safer behavior would be to lean the other way, away from the shore, to bring the kayak back into balance. Making sure that the compass and IMU are calibrated ensures that the drone icon on the screen correctly orients the PIC to the direction of flight of the drone. I had this problem the other day when I was not able to orient the drone relative to home, but thankfully had the drone in my line of sight and flew it back through trial and error. Fortunately, I was in a very large park with no tall obstacle in sight. Lesson learned: a considerable amount of flying experience and expertise goes into making a simple aerial video safely. @@Eloc626
Nice video! Do you have any editing tips?
Nice video ! Nice to be able to see the process and your thought process
Thanks! Hope you found it helpful.
That's an awesome shoot. Not to tell you how to do your job, but I've would have went around that tree on your first shot and see what that would have looked like before taking that shot.
Thanks for sharing.
I definitely see what you mean. I probably should have at least compared which of the two low shots would have looked better. The one I chose to take may have made the driveway look unnaturally big
Where can I buy that landing pad?
Just added the link in the description!
Great video, thanks for sharing!! Curious, when blending the photos for finished product, are you using hdr auto merge or are you hand blending them?
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the question. I use an app called Photomatix with one of their blending presets and then touch them up in lightroom (then photoshop if necessary). I’m posting another real estate shoot walkthrough tomorrow and the pics came out even better so stay tuned for that one! I'll also be going over some topics I missed here.
@@Eloc626 awesome!! Thank you!! Will be waiting to see tomorrows vid!!
That looks like Cape Coral FL with all the canals. What kind of drone is that?
You’re not that far off! Just on the opposite coast. I’m using a DJI Air 2S
Trying to figure out which drone you are flying. Mavic 3? Great shots and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your comment! In this video
I’m flying an Air 2S
@@Eloc626 Hi, which drone would be the next step down in price and still give me a great learning experience? I am passionate about learning and doing home photography and video.
Any of the new Mini series drones have great cameras these days. I’d look into the Mini 3/3 Pro for a slight decrease in price but still an awesome camera
🙏🏻Best alternative to DJI Air 3 (if US ban takes place)?
Probably the Autel Evo II from what I’ve heard. One of my coworkers flies it every day and he actually chooses it over the Mavic 2 that he has almost always.
Awesome, what would you charge us for some shots for our home?
I work for a company called Virtuals1. We're based out of South Florida. If you're interested in setting up a shoot definitely check out our website! Virtuals1.com it has all the pricing combinations and when you reach out feel free to request me!
@@Eloc626 awesome thank you.
And yeah we're located in Palm Beach.
Side note, on the subject of CZcams, in your description you have a link to Amazon.
If you sign up for their affiliate program you could be making money off that link.
I only mention it because I'm also trying to start my CZcams channel and get it off the ground and so far the Amazon affiliate program has been pretty cool 😎
I really appreciate the heads up! I've heard of it before but haven't looked into it yet. I will absolutely be doing that. Good luck growing your channel, looking forward to potentially working with you at some point!@@ElevatedVehicles
@@Eloc626 yes sir likewise. And thank you. I sent the info to my S.O. so she is checking out your website now.
Have a blessed night 🙂
Great video! I learned a lot. Where are you located?
Thanks! Really happy to hear it was helpful. I’m about 15-20 minutes west of West Palm Beach.
Your car has a Drone flight take off window ?
lol oh yes. I paid extra for that 😂
Just curious, looks like you have a DJI Mavic. It's cool that you shoot from your car but don't you need go through the calibration process before launch?
I use an Air 2S. I believe I’ve only had to calibrate it once after I got it. For whatever reason they hold their initial calibration settings really well.
Do you use any landmarks at all to your drone videos at all or only at a client's request?
What software do you use for editing?
I use photomatix to merge the brackets. Then play with the vibrancy and colors in Lightroom. If anything needs to be removed I’ll move the photo over to photoshop but it’s not every time.
why so many shots 50 feet apart in height? no way the realtor uses 4 photos from each angle just 50 feet apart each photo?
They rarely use every photo but every realtor has different preferences with what they’re trying to show with aerial photos. Some want to emphasize the surrounding area or a specific geographic feature and some just want to see the house from above. I take a bunch just so they have everything they could need
@@Eloc626 ahhh well I pay editors to edit my photos so id be losing money taking that many shots 50 feet apart cause the rest of the photos would be edited for nothing if I gave them 4 options from each angle
Awesome video bro. Don't mind that guy up top. Ain't nobody about to do all that. The people that mess it up is people that use drones to peak in people houses and fly like 20ft over people head just being idiots. Also didn't take enough practice time flying in open lots just to get the hang of it. Most of that use common sense are fine
Or the guy criticizing I should say
Thanks for the support man! It means a lot. Totally agree with you. There’s too many people with drones to enforce any of the current rules, not that I recommend breaking them at all because the fines can be pretty hefty if you were to ever get caught sadly
This video is incredibly irresponsible ! You left a lot of details out such as registering your drone with faa , having insurance , checking flight patterns and area , contacting nearest tower or requesting approvals . If you just bought the drone and and taking photos and videos and getting paid and using them for commercial purposes , you are subject to the rules and regulations set forth by the FAA . If you are failing to do it the right way , you are going to end up facing a huge fine and imprisonment and if you don't have drone insurance as well , you are personally liable for any damage to home , person , pet , vehicle etc and can be sued and held personally liable . Gettting into aerial/drone photography is daunting and requires a lot of work and knowledge . You need to have your Drone Pilots license and understand air traffic and rules and regulations .
Ok , i did see you have or took your 107 , but based on this video , you left out a lot of details and were not following the rules set forth ,you need to set this expectation before in the beginning of the video otherwise people think its just buy, launch , take photos and bam ...its not
Thanks for your comment Brandon. I stated in the beginning of the video that this was a "Day in the life" genre video - I can add that to the description and maybe make this video less incredibly irresponsible. This wasn't meant to be a start to finish video to include every single thing needed to fly for commercial purposes. That video would probably need to be over an hour at least. The goal of this video is just to be a simple overview of the various angles that I usually capture when I am shooting a property. Also, I live in area of Florida that has very minimal airspace restricts so there is no need to contact any air traffic control towers.
@@Eloc626 fair enough , I appreciate the response and I know it’s a lot and a lot of people don’t care about FAA but it can mess it up for others.
@BrandonMitchell84 understandable. Trust me, the last thing I want to do is contribute to the list of reasons the FAA has to make flying drones for fun more difficult.
@@BrandonMitchell84Lol. Do you work with FAA? Calm down dude, it’s not that serious.