Traditional aerial photography requires hiring an airplane, pilot, and sometimes a separate photographer. The photographer shoots pictures out of the window as the plane speeds past the object of the shoot at 100 miles per hour or more. Besides the cost, this method has a number of drawbacks.

The Federal Aviation Administration requires that conventional aircraft fly no lower than 1,000 feet above any populated areas. Intimate, oblique angle photos are not possible because of the altitude requirement. At 1,000 feet or higher, atmospheric haze from dust and humidity can make conventional aerial images seem blurry, hazy, and de-saturated.

If you need pictures of large expanses of land shot from high altitudes, then using conventional aircraft and photographers is the way to go. However, if you want to see more than the rooftop of a building, you need Unique Perspectives.

We use a sophisticated radio-controlled helicopter to take high resolution, low-level aerial photos. Radio-controlled aircraft are not subject to many of the full-size aircraft restrictions imposed by the FAA so we can shoot incredible, close-in, oblique angle photos from 0-400 feet altitude nearly anywhere. If we are shooting a two story building, we can hover the aircraft at 40-100 feet altitude within 50 feet of the structure and produce photos that are unachievable by conventional means. The possibilities for using this technology in photography are endless.

Please click on the images below to see some of our recent work.