Drone Services

At Kirkby Diamond, we are committed to providing forward-thinking, best-in-class services. Our latest innovation is the introduction of drone technology.

Drone surveys are becoming an industry standard, helping businesses reduce health and safety risks by eliminating the need to work at heights. Drones also offer a quicker and more cost-effective alternative to traditional methods, such as scaffolding. We offer a comprehensive range of drone surveys across various industries.

In addition to the widely used GPS drones, we utilise FPV (First Person View) drones to push the boundaries of what's possible. Combined with traditional ground cinematography, we create immersive, innovative, and creative video productions. These are ideal for, but not limited to, PR, marketing, advertising, and social media content.

Our experienced drone pilot is also a qualified surveyor, holding both GVC and A2 CofC certifications, ensuring precision and expertise in every project.

Drone services we offer include, but are not limited to:

  • Aerial Photography & Video Production
  • Building Surveys and Inspections
  • Hybrid 360 Tours (Aerial & Ground 360 imagery) 
  • Interactive Reporting Methods
  • Ground Based Photography
  • Fly-Thru Tours
  • Event Filming

Video Examples:

Contact us for more information.

Commercial Property Marketing

If you are thinking of placing your property onto the market, there is now a cost-effective way to produce stunning aerial photographs and videos of offices, retail parks, industrial units, factories, farms and land. We can offer:

 

  • Aerial photography and video production, including panoramic and 360 photos.
  • Virtual and fly-thru immersive tours utilising FPV Cinewhoops - A fly-thru tour is a fantastic trending method for marketing a premises, providing an immersive tour to captivate your audience.
  • Static ground photography with DSLR Camera's to provide you with an inclusive marketing package.

Indoor Aerial Photography & Fly-Thru Tours

We have flown in warehouses, retail units and office areas. As a safety precaution, we utilise propeller guards to ensure safety levels are always maintained. For a Fly-Thru, we would utilise a FPV Cinewhoop drone, to obtain unique perspectives safely, which is our number one priority.

Kirkby Diamond utilise their own in-house editing team who use the latest professional Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects. We offer professional editing services including, graphics, colour correction and colour grading services tailored to your requirements.

Building Inspection and Surveys

Carrying out inspection surveys by drone is quickly becoming ‘the gold standard’ as the industry moves to keep people safe. This method reduces the need to work at height (still Britain’s biggest workplace killer) and is more cost and time effective than the traditional inspection methods, such as scaffolding and cherry pickers.

We carry out a range of inspections for various industries, including but not limited to:

  • UAV Surveys with photos and/or video
  • Orthomosaic Photos
  • Building damage surveys
  • Event Filming

Kirkby Diamond are specialists in conducting high-level aerial building surveys. By utilising a drone, we can inspect all areas of a premise, including any restricted access areas. We can undertake a full inspection of a premise, paying particular attention to any areas of concern, ensuring you gain a good understanding of the condition of the area in question by delivering high quality Images and / or video of the roof, upper cladding, gutters, chimneys and towers.

UAV surveys are beneficial in many scenarios such as routine roof / gutter inspections, inspecting damage for insurance / repair purposes, inspection of solar panels, schedule of condition / schedule of dilapidation imagery and creating a PPM for the premises.

Aerial Property Photography for Residential Estate Agents

We can produce dramatic aerial photography and videos for residential estate agents.  Aerial videos and photographs captures the scale of the property, land, gardens and surrounds, not normally possible with ground-based photography.

Kirkby Diamond utilising their own in-house editing team using the latest professional Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects. We offer professional editing services including, graphics, colour correction and colour grading services tailored to your requirements.

We can adjust our aerial images and video footage to incorporate your corporate image or design, soundtrack, music and sound effects to deliver film ready for publication.

360 Aerial Panoramas

Kirkby Diamond can produce high-resolution 360° interactive aerial panoramic photographs to promote your property / business. These 360° views give you the feeling of being up high, with a bird’s eye 360 view where you can view the entire surroundings at your discretion. These can be viewed on all mobile and PC devices, or by utilising VR goggles.

Corporate / Promotional Video

Video content is a key component of any business’ digital marketing strategy. We provide filming and editing of aerial imagery for our clients. We can also provide you with un-edited video for your own post-editing, if required.

By using our multiple drone platforms for your aerial filming, our creativity and knowledge of drones will result in a modern bespoke video to captivate your audience. We can film in 5.3K resolution using the latest in camera stabilization technology, enabling the potential to crop in without losing any pixels, even when rendering a 4k video.

We work with you, whilst providing advice to achieve your perfect corporate video.

Sports/ Events Filming

Aerial filming and photography using unmanned aerial vehicles can now really show the sports, leisure, travel and tourism industries, from an exciting and immersive viewpoint. Such views previously were only available from expensive helicopter hire or other manned aircraft shoots.

Our drones will fly from ground level up to 400 feet at up to speeds of 100 mph, so we are able to record over land, coastline, rivers, beautiful countryside, property and urban areas.

Kirkby Diamond can assist your business to promote golf courses, hotels, tourist attractions, stately homes and sporting venues.

We cover sports events of any size, outdoor or indoor shows, carnivals, fetes, festival’s / concerts, all from a new aerial perspective.

We can also shoot raw footage for a third-party production team or PR & Advertising agency for inclusion in a coordinated marketing, media or film production.

Please note: For events of over 1,000 people, we may need to obtain CAA approval.

Video Editing

Kirkby Diamond has an in-house marketing team which can edit and produce video content. We edit all our own projects when appointed. We can also assist in editing footage obtained from a third party. If you have any editing requirements, get in contact to discuss how we can assist you further.

We use the Adobe CC Suite for our editing and are experience in using Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Photoshop.

Key Contacts

Steve Cable

GVC & A2 CofC / Drone Pilot Surveyor

email steve.cable@kirkbydiamond.co.uk phone 01582 393 333

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