What this actually is
Most construction photography is a series of visits that never line up. Different angle, different height, different time of day. You end up with photos of a building, but you cannot set them side by side and watch the job move.
This is built the other way around. Every flight repeats the same waypoint mission, and each date is aligned against the one before it, so the whole run plays back as one shot from one point in the air. The three frames above are the same drone position and heading on three visits to an apartment and townhome build, matched to within half a metre. The film below is all eleven.
That alignment is the product. Any pilot can photograph a job site. Getting fifteen months of separate flights to register frame to frame is the part that takes tooling, and it is what turns a pile of visits into something worth showing an owner.
What you get each visit
The same set every visit, so month twelve compares directly with month one..
On site
- Fixed-position aerials, identical framing every visit, so any two dates compare directly.
- Ground coverage of whatever phase is active: crews, deliveries, trades, equipment.
- Vertical cuts shot alongside, for the feeds your marketing team actually posts to.
Delivered
- A finished, colour-corrected set filed by phase: materials, demolition, structure, mechanical, envelope, finishes.
- The progression film, re-cut to include the newest visit. It gets longer every month you stay on.
- A shared gallery your whole team can pull from, so the owner, the lender and your subs are not waiting on emailed files.
Three budget lines, one visit
The reason this pays for itself is that one site visit feeds three separate needs, which are usually three separate purchases.
Marketing
Finished imagery and the progression film for your website, proposals and award submissions. The work you want to be hired for, shot while it is happening.
Owner reporting
A consistent monthly record for the owner, the lender and anyone who wants to see progress without driving out. Same angles every month, so nothing has to be explained.
Documentation
Dated, located evidence of site conditions. The set nobody thinks about until there is a disagreement about what was there and when.
It works at any interval
The method does not care whether the gap between visits is a month or an hour. Below is a roof replacement in Franklin documented across a single working day: original roof at dawn, tear-off, underlayment, finished roof the next morning. Eight flights, and every frame below is the same drone position and heading, matched to within a foot.
The same day, from the ground
Aerials are half of a visit. While the drone works the roof, the ground coverage builds the library a contractor actually markets with: materials arriving, crews working, the craft details, the people. Same day, same invoice, filed by phase.
As-built scanning
Before the drywall goes up, every stud, pipe, conduit and duct run can be captured as a navigable 3D record. Six months later, when somebody needs to know what is behind a wall, the answer is a link instead of a demolition saw.
Sold to the builder as risk reduction rather than to a searcher as a scan. It adds roughly an hour to a visit that is already scheduled.
How it is delivered: the scan stays hosted on my account and your team gets access to it for the life of the project. If you need the record transferred into your own system at closeout, say so at the start and we will price it in.
This is the construction version of our Matterport 3D Virtual Tours. Same capture, different purpose: a permanent record of what is behind the walls rather than a tour of a finished space.
How it works
A monthly retainer for the length of the build, agreed before the first visit. One visit a month is the usual cadence. Fast-moving projects sometimes want two, and some want only the milestones.
Rates are quoted per project rather than listed, because distance does most of the work in the number. A build twenty minutes out and a build ninety minutes out are not the same job, even with an identical shot list. Site size and how much ground coverage you want alongside the aerials move it as well.
What you get is one fixed monthly figure for the whole project, agreed up front, rather than a different number every visit.