The studio flies
its own line.

I fly the fleet myself. Mavic 2 Pro for stills and editorial motion, Neo and Neo 2 for follow-cam and indoor proximity work, Avata 360 for cinewhoop FPV and 8K equirectangular, Mini 5 Pro as the sub-250g travel airframe. Five airframes, one operator, one CAA registration. The light-painting airframes are a parallel build — programmable LED arrays gorilla-glued and Vifly-mounted to the spines, flown on slow programmed paths after sundown. That side of the line is in first-flight testing and I’m not pretending it’s production-ready. The standard work is. Insurance and op-id are in the bag; I’ll fly in the rain if the airframe rating permits and the brief is honest about the look that gives you.

• You need an editorial aerial photograph or short motion piece, graded for print or web.
• You want a 360° fly-through of a venue, procession, or interior — reframed in post.
• You want indoor or close-quarters follow-cam at a rehearsal, gig, or studio shoot.

Five airframes, one pipeline.

• DJI Mavic 2 Pro — Hasselblad L1D-20c, 1″ sensor, adjustable aperture. The photography platform: stills and motion at editorial quality.
• DJI Neo & Neo 2 — lightweight follow-cam and proximity work; useful indoors and around people.
• DJI Avata 360 — FPV cinewhoop with an integrated 8K 360° camera (twin 64MP 1/1.1″ sensors, 200° lenses). Single-lens mode for traditional FPV at 4K, dual-lens for full omnidirectional capture.
• DJI Mini 5 Pro — sub-250g travel airframe, 1″ sensor. Carries Bluetooth-controllable LED bars for the unsynced-swarm aerial light-painting pieces.
• LED-modified airframes — programmable persistence-of-vision LED arrays mounted to drone bodies, for aerial light painting kata. Currently in first-flight testing.

The control pipeline.

DJI Goggles + RC 2 controller, head-tracked through an InAir pod, with the live feed mirrored to Xreal One Pro AR glasses. The result: simultaneous gimbal control, AR-overlaid telemetry, and external situational awareness without losing line of sight to the airframe. Real flights, not hover-and-shoot.

Brief, fly, deliver.

1. Brief via the contact form. Location, intent, deliverables, dates. Pick “Aerial / drone work” from the form’s intent dropdown.
2. Quote and recce. The studio replies with a quote, a recommended airframe for the job, and a proposed shoot window. Sometimes a recce visit; sometimes just a satellite read.
3. Fly. Salford base, willing to travel. All flights operated to UK CAA rules and local site conditions. Insurance and op-id available on request.
4. Deliver. Graded stills as TIFF/JPEG, edited motion as ProRes/H.265, 360° clips as equirectangular. Or, for light-painting commissions, a signed editioned print.

Are you insured and CAA-registered?

Yes. Operator ID and flyer ID in hand, public liability in force, A2 Certificate of Competency on file. Paperwork forwarded on request before the recce.

Can you fly indoors?

Yes — the Neo and Neo 2 are sized for it, the Avata 360 in cinewhoop trim handles tighter interiors when the brief justifies the noise. CAA rules treat indoor flight as outside the open-category framework, so the constraint is the venue’s, not mine.

Will you fly my wedding?

Probably not. The studio’s aerial line is editorial, architectural, and performance-led; the wedding-photography pipeline is its own discipline and I’m not the right person for it. If you want a single editioned aerial portrait of the venue, that I’ll do.

• The Fleet — Five Airframes — every airframe, the architectural argument for each.
• The stack — every airframe, controller, and bridge by name.
• First Light — the first LED-modified flight, recorded in the journal.
• /contact?intent=aerial — book the line.
• Services — see the full commercial surface, every service in one place.