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  • IT’S A WRAP! FOR 2017

    Yet again, we find ourselves at the end of another year.  It has flown by, but it has still been a good year and we owe our thanks for that to our family, friends, colleagues and clients.

    To sum up the year, we sat down with Ryan Thomas, the Aerialshots Founder and Chief-Drone-Pilot, to give us…

  • DRONE GIFT GUIDE

    We love drones.  We love the tech behind them.  We love flying them.  And we love the beautiful shots we get from them.  For us, a drone is not just one of the tools we use in our day job.  It is an exciting part of our lifestyle.

    It is for this reason that drones are…

  • Filming a Maserati Breakfast Run

    A Maserati is a fast, luxury car and, on a recent film shoot, the Aerialshots team got as close to one as we are ever going to get.
    We were shooting the Maserati Breakfast Run which comprised of meeting at the Maserati showroom in Johannesburg, taking the Maseratis out for a spin in the direction of…

  • Jozi By Air

    When you are up in the air, the city sprawls endlessly below you.  Some parts are beautifully lush and green, others are a cluster of skyrises reflecting the sun off their walls of windows.
    Still others are industrial, brown or unattractive.  You can see a range of housing lifestyles – the large mansions with their gardens,…

  • ADVANTAGES OF AN AERIAL VIEW IN PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT

    Utilising drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to take aerial photographs of a site can have a number of advantages in all phases of property development.  A view from above can assist in planning, capturing the progress and be used to create marketing material.  Here is an infographic to show you how:

    An aerial photo captures the lay…

  • ARE DRONE CAMERAS AS GOOD AS CINEMA CAMERAS?

    Cinema cameras are large machines while drone cameras are small and light in order to fly.  It begs the question then, can drone cameras be as good as cinema cameras?  Without going into the technical aspect, let’s look at what we do know.
    Facts about drones:

    Drones are far less expensive to use than cinema cameras

  • LIFE, UP IN THE AIR

    Life as an aerial photographer and videographer, has changed rapidly over the last few years.   Ryan Thomas, the Chief Drone Pilot and one of the founders of AerialShots tells us his story of life up in the air.
    Chapter One: The Elitist High-Flyer
    In the old days, if someone wanted an aerial shot, I had two choices:…

  • THE FLIGHT OF THE DRONES

    There is no doubt that drones are a technology that is here to stay.  And now the uses of these Umanned Aerial Vehicles are extensive and growing far beyond the originally intention probably was for this device. These are just a few of the advantages we will experience by having drones in our skies.
    The flying…