How to Improve Your Drone Real Estate Photos

A follow up to my first video where I walk you guys through another property that I am shooting. In this video I am covering some things to keep in mind while you are flying commercially and trying to get the best photos for your clients. Real Estate photography is a great way to introduce yourself to the world of commercial drone services. In order to fly for any sort of business reasons, be sure to secure your Part 107 certification first. Feel free to check out the video on my channel where I document my testing experience and share some of the tougher questions on the 2024 Part 107 exam.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Pre Flight Strategy
1:06 Drone Setup and Disclaimers
2:05 SD Card Prep
2:27 Story Time: Disaster Strikes
4:07 Airspace Check and Approval
4:33 Beginning of Flight
14:10 Recap and Summary
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[@davefish84]

Really appreciate your content. Keep up the good work and thank you.

[@davefish84]

I’ve been serious with a fishing RUclips channel for about a year and a half and just starting to get into real estate photography. Thankfully I got experience with my drone and editing because of the RUclips stuff but your videos definitely help me learn how to do photos of homes.

[@Eloc626]

Thanks a lot! I’m glad the videos have helped. Good luck with your channel too!

[@RickyL305]

I just received my 107 FAA license in the mail this past week and my commercial drone that I will be using that I am getting familiar with before promoting heavy. My last name is well known here in parts of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina with 5 star restaurants (18 in total) since 1948 (74 years and still going strong, and a large mechanic shop where my cousin works out of that's a local pro race car driver. Cousin that's a Real Estate agent and another real estate agency that is under the family's last name.
I am not promoting big time just yet until I feel more comfortable and videos like yours does help. I placed a 46 second advertisement video up on RUclips to send over the clickable link when ready to agents everywhere and this week coming I will have a website out as well and I have a great video editor also.I Can't wait to start moving things along but with the last name already in these professional businesses, I am also cautious on marketing to hard at one time as well. I am not sure what part of Florida you are in, however I am out of the Tampa Bay area.

[@Eloc626]

That’s awesome! I hope it all goes well. Sounds like you have plenty of interesting opportunities to experiment and get some really good shots. I’m over in West Palm Beach - I’ve been meaning to visit Tampa for a while now.

[@ssdronography]

Great video!!

[@Eloc626]

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@ssdronography]

@@Eloc626 you’re welcome. I’m a rookie so this is very helpful

[@Frisbeegrl11]

VERY helpful. Great video!

[@Eloc626]

@@Frisbeegrl11 Thank you for the feedback! Very happy to hear that it was helpful

[@Stefan_Boerjesson]

Looking and listening to Your experienced advice.
Being an amateur i photographing with a year of drone flying experience an estate agent was contacted, and she was interested. She sold 2 properties for me and sold 2 properties to me. In other words, a good contact.
You use still pictures. My idea, not being a real photographer, was fly around the property making live recordings from which still pictures can be cut out. Every angle will be there.
4K 60 is available. For the Mini 3 PRO a wide angle lens is available. The Mavic 3 PRO, standard cameras.
What's Your comment to my approach?

[@Eloc626]

So it’s not a bad idea at all and can definitely be useful depending on your goals. The issues I might see with that in my line of work is that even the most clear still frame from a 4K video is only equivalent to 8.3 megapixels. Where as regular stills with my Air 2S are 20 megapixels and even up to 48 megapixels on the Air 2.
Additionally, taking stills from a video prevents you from taking bracketed shots which you need to create an HDR image. So at the end of the day, if you don’t need a super high quality still photo and have no intention of creating an HDR, I think it’s a great idea.

[@NickilisPrime]

Great video, how do you get your clients?

[@Eloc626]

Thanks! I was lucky enough to find an existing real estate photography company that had an infrastructure in place and has been marketing themselves for 15 years. They have a massive network of realtors they work with and set me up with appointments. I didn’t have much success building my own network before joining this company

[@Stefan_Boerjesson]

Thanks for Your reply!
I have not spent any time checking the resolution of the different cameras in still pictures but I recognize the figure 48M for a camera or two.
Flying and recording don't call for the same artistic taste that the engineer in me doesn't have....
Living almost next door to the broker I can accept doing a second flight still picturing selected angles. A demo flight recording of the block I live will be made for free to see what response I get. She's been selling numerous of apartments here.

[@wesleyallen8902]

Will my dji mini 4 pro take pics like the ones you take? Having some issues with taking good pics.

[@Eloc626]

Yes, you could actually potentially take even better photos. I use bracketed photos which the mini 4 pro can take. I have mine set to 5 and then I blend them together with an app called photomatix - I’m sure there are free ones though.