Stills carry different requirements than motion — resolution, latitude, and the patience to wait out the light.
Aerial stills for the studio campuses, development and the Georgia countryside. The humidity here does real work on long-lens aerial images, and knowing which hours actually produce a clean frame in August saves a return trip.
Aerial stills for key art, campaigns, editorial, architecture and listings. We shoot raw, deliver graded or flat depending on what your retoucher wants, and we plan around the sun rather than around the schedule where the schedule allows it. The same certification and insurance apply as on any motion job, because the airspace does not care what you are capturing.
Summer humidity puts haze into long-lens aerial frames and afternoon storms are close to daily from June onward. Autumn and spring are the reliable windows, and Georgia's mild winters keep exterior work going most of the year.
Atlanta sits under Hartsfield-Jackson, the busiest airport on earth, and its Class B shelf reaches across most of the metro. LAANC coverage is good here, but the ceilings are real and the traffic underneath them is constant. Suburban production country to the south sits closer to the approach paths than most crews expect.
We shoot the downtown skyline, the studio campuses, and the Georgia countryside — and we travel. CineDrones works nationwide, so if your production is basing in Atlanta and shooting somewhere else entirely, that is a normal week for us.
High-resolution stills payloads with the latitude to hold a sky and a shadow in the same frame.
Our aerial units have worked on Ozark, Jack Ryan, Bosch, Mayans M.C., SEAL Team, NCIS: New Orleans, Fear the Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Modern Family, 9-1-1, Goliath, The Resident, Raising Dion, Castle Rock, Doctor Sleep and Chef's Table, for Netflix, Amazon, Apple, HBO, Hulu, Showtime, Sony, CBS, AMC, MTV and Bravo. See the work →
Raw files as standard, plus graded selects if you want them. We will deliver flat if your retoucher would rather start clean. Nothing is baked in that you cannot undo.
That is usually the plan. The constraint is rarely the light — it is getting authorization for the specific location at the specific hour, which is why these shoots get planned rather than improvised.
Commercial aerial photography carries the same requirements as motion work: a certificated pilot, airspace authorization where applicable, and usually a location permit. The airspace does not care whether you are shooting stills or motion.
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