NYONIC/Drone video and aerial photography
Aerial — A specialty, not an add-on
Height changes what a place is. A property reads as land instead of a house, a build site reads as progress, an event reads as scale. Aerial is its own discipline — airspace, weather, light, and knowing which three of the twenty possible shots are the ones worth flying.
Drones got cheap, so everyone bought one. What did not get cheap is knowing what to do once it is up there. The default output is a slow circle at 200 feet that tells a viewer nothing they could not have got from the address.
Good aerial work is a small number of deliberate moves — a reveal that shows how a property actually sits on its lot, a rise that puts a building in its neighbourhood, a low fast pass that gives a place energy. Every one of those is a decision made before the battery goes in.
The flying is the easy part. Planning the airspace, reading the light and knowing which shots earn their place in the cut is the job you are actually hiring.
What aerial is actually for
How it works
Location, airspace, light and the specific shots worth flying. If the site needs authorization, that request goes in ahead of the shoot day, not on it.
Stills and motion from the same window, scheduled for the light the location actually looks best in.
Graded clips and full-resolution stills, in the ratios you publish. Matched to ground footage if we shot that too.
Cover image is an illustration produced in-studio, not a client deliverable. Aerial work I have flown is available on request.
Delivered
Pricing
Aerial pricing comes down to where it is, what you need out of it, and how tight the timing is. Send me an address and I will check the first one before quoting the rest.
Some locations are a fifteen-minute setup. Others sit under controlled airspace and need authorization requested in advance. That planning time is the honest reason two identical-looking jobs price differently.
An aerial photo set for a listing and a graded sequence that has to intercut with ground footage are very different amounts of post.
Golden hour on one specific date, with a weather backup held, costs more to guarantee than “sometime next week.” Flexibility is genuinely cheaper.
No published rate card, because a rate card either overcharges the small job or underprices the big one. Email me the scope or call and you will have a number, not a meeting.
Questions
Yes. I hold an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot certificate, which is the rule that governs paid drone work in the United States. It matters to you for two reasons: the footage is legal to use commercially, and a certificated pilot is the one who can request authorization to fly in controlled airspace rather than simply having to avoid it. If you need to see the certificate before a shoot, ask and I will send it.
Real estate and land listings, construction and site progress, events, and establishing shots for brand video. Anything where the story is about where a thing sits, not only what it looks like up close.
No, and anyone who says yes is guessing. Controlled airspace near airports, restricted areas and certain events either require authorization or are simply off limits. I check the location before quoting, so you are not finding out on the shoot day.
We reschedule. Wind and rain are the two things that genuinely stop a flight, and flying in marginal conditions produces footage you would not end up using. For anything time-sensitive I build a backup date into the schedule from the start.
Yes, and you should take both. The same flight produces both, so adding stills to a video job costs very little on top.
No. A standard suburban lot benefits as much as an estate, because what aerial does best is show context — the yard, the street, the trees, how the house actually sits on its land. Most listings never show any of that.
Yes, and it should. If I am shooting both, they are matched in camera and in colour so the edit does not visibly change hands halfway through.
I will check the airspace, tell you honestly what is possible at that location, and quote it before you commit to anything.
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