Aerial Photo of your house?
I'm wondering if there are any services that offer an aerial photo of ones property that won't break the bank? In the old days a plane w/ photographer would take photos of peoples places. I'm wonde...
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Thanks for the replies. I want to obtain an aerial photo of our place to frame and put on the wall. Probably sounds kind of cheesy but we have lived here 30 years and will be moving next year sometime and would like an aerial photo of the place.
I downloaded google earth but by the time I zoom-in enough for a decent picture the trees and vehicles end up looking like something from a cartoon. I wonder if I could pay for better resolution somehow.
Looked at aerial property photographers on CL and found a couple, most of who do aerial photos for homes that are for sale and some of them do aerial photography/video of weddings and like events. A number of them list the specific make/model of the drone that they use. Most of the pricing starts at $300, but I did find one that said a simple photograph would be $200 to maybe $300. And one from a guy who is trying to start his drone photography business and has pricing at $150. It looks like his ad has been up for a month and he has yet to have any customers.
There is an active small airplane field not too far from here. Airplane – ½ hour/$145, one hour/$275. Helicopter – ½ hour/$195. My concern with this approach is we don’t have a decent camera (only small point and shoots), and being able to get a good angle/view for the picture while flying over.
I did some searching on RC clubs and didn’t find much activity, at least by looking at their websites. I may send a couple of them an email and see what they say. I’m assuming that there is cross-over between traditional RC interest and drone interest.
Looking at the satellite view I think a drone might be the best method to capture the type of photo we are looking for. Our place has a lot of trees on it and the surrounding property’s do as well. Trees like 60’ evergreens and such. I think with the very specific angle/altitude the photo needs to be taken at, a drone might be the best approach.
I downloaded google earth but by the time I zoom-in enough for a decent picture the trees and vehicles end up looking like something from a cartoon. I wonder if I could pay for better resolution somehow.
Looked at aerial property photographers on CL and found a couple, most of who do aerial photos for homes that are for sale and some of them do aerial photography/video of weddings and like events. A number of them list the specific make/model of the drone that they use. Most of the pricing starts at $300, but I did find one that said a simple photograph would be $200 to maybe $300. And one from a guy who is trying to start his drone photography business and has pricing at $150. It looks like his ad has been up for a month and he has yet to have any customers.
There is an active small airplane field not too far from here. Airplane – ½ hour/$145, one hour/$275. Helicopter – ½ hour/$195. My concern with this approach is we don’t have a decent camera (only small point and shoots), and being able to get a good angle/view for the picture while flying over.
I did some searching on RC clubs and didn’t find much activity, at least by looking at their websites. I may send a couple of them an email and see what they say. I’m assuming that there is cross-over between traditional RC interest and drone interest.
Looking at the satellite view I think a drone might be the best method to capture the type of photo we are looking for. Our place has a lot of trees on it and the surrounding property’s do as well. Trees like 60’ evergreens and such. I think with the very specific angle/altitude the photo needs to be taken at, a drone might be the best approach.
