Photography and drone
What a shoot costs
A hundred dollars gets you up to five photographs. Past that it is by the hour, four hour minimum, editing counted inside those hours. The rate is the same whether the camera is on the ground or in the air.
Photography, on the ground or from the air
| Small job, flat rateUp to five photographs. Five products, five headshots, five aerial shots of a property, or five of anything else. Edited and delivered, no hourly clock. | $100 |
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| By the hourAnything past five photographs. Product runs, a whole crew, a shop or a farm shot properly, a listing covered from the ground and the air in one visit. Four hour minimum, which comes to $400. | $100 an hour |
Travel, timing, location access, deliverables, and any aerial operating requirements are confirmed before booking. No unlisted travel or turnaround promise is implied by these rates.
Why the drone does not cost extra
The approved photography rate is the same whether an accepted shot is made on the ground or in the air. Aerial work is still subject to job-specific operating, location, timing, and access checks.
A ground and aerial set can be discussed as one visit when both are appropriate; the final scope is confirmed before booking.
Aerial work is accepted only after the operating requirements for the specific location, timing, and job have been checked. No licence or night-operation claim is published here without current direct evidence.
Editing is in the hours, not on top of them
The hourly rate covers both capture and editing. The expected split between on-site work and editing is explained before booking.
That keeps the published rate understandable without inventing a universal image count or turnaround for jobs that differ.
What hourly work can cover
- Under five photographs is not four hours, it is a flat hundred dollars. The rest of this list is what the hourly work looks like.
- A larger product set, staff portraits, a property, or an operating shop can be scoped as hourly work.
- The image count and deliverables are agreed for the actual job; this page does not promise a universal output from four hours.
Aerial work that is not photography
Roof documentation, overhead mapping, and repeat progress work are scoped per job because footprint, access, deliverables, intended use, and operating requirements vary.
| Roof documentation, residentialVisible roof surfaces can be documented from the air when the job and operating conditions permit. This is not a structural, insurance, code, or thermal diagnosis. | Quoted per job |
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| Roof documentation, commercial or multi-buildingLarger or multi-building documentation is scoped to the footprint, access, deliverables, and operating requirements. | Quoted per job |
| True-color overhead mappingA true-color overhead image can document visible site conditions. It is not a boundary, engineering, drainage, agronomy, or legal survey. | Quoted per job |
| Construction progressRepeat photography can be scoped to comparable viewpoints and an agreed schedule when conditions permit. | Quoted per job |
No thermal service or hidden-moisture diagnosis is offered. If a job requires a specialized sensor or professional conclusion rather than visible photography, this is not the right scope.
Roof documentation
Aerial photographs can document visible roof surfaces without representing the images as a structural, insurance, code, or thermal inspection.
The address, access, deliverables, and operating requirements are reviewed before a roof-documentation job is accepted.
Overhead mapping
A stitched true-color overhead image can show visible features such as fence lines, tree lines, bare ground, standing water, and site progress at capture time.
Repeat images may help a qualified customer compare visible change when the flight path and conditions are comparable.
This is not a boundary, engineering, drainage, agronomy, or legal survey, and it does not produce NDVI or a prescription map. The intended use and required accuracy are confirmed before quoting.
Why the pictures matter as much as the site
A website with the wrong pictures looks like a template with a name typed into it. Stock photos of somebody else's product, somebody else's storefront, somebody else's hands. People notice, even when they cannot say what is wrong.
Real photographs of your actual product, your actual building and your actual staff are half of whether a site reads as a real business. Tapestry Acres is the clearest example: the photographs on that site and the site itself came from the same camera and the same hands, which is why the two match.
Ridgeline Aerial is a demo build rather than a client, put together to show what an aerial services site looks like finished.
How to book
Call and say what needs photographing and roughly how much of it. Up to five finished photographs is $100; larger photo work is $100 an hour with a four-hour minimum, including editing. Roof, mapping, and repeat-progress work receives a job-specific scope and price before any flight.