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Internal Drone Factory Roof Inspection
A lot of our work involved flying drones indoors, inside factories and warehouses for corporate videos and internal build progress reports. Roof inspections are usually conducted outside, using drone cameras to zoom in on tiles, slate roofs, aluminum roofing, guttering and other rooftop features. However, on this occasion we were asked to use a drone […]
Multi-fuel Power Plant Drone Filming Induction Photography
Ferrybridge has been a location for power stations since the 1920s, with old technology being replaced by new several times over the decades. The currenct transformation is from the old coal fuelled plant to the two new multi-fuel power plants, one 64 mw plant already operational and another 90 mw plant next door, designed to […]
Bruntingthorpe Drone Aerial Mapping
Bruntingthorpe is a huge old airfield near Lutterworth in Leicestershire that is now home to a thriving automotive business community, vehicle testing and proving ground and open air aviation museum. All around the airfield runways, now a race track for testing cars and motorbikes, are buildings that house various businesses mostly connected to the automotive […]
Drone Aerial Photography Construction Progress University of Leeds
Dawson Wam, a large construction piling company based in Northern Ireland and operating all over the UK, began work at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire during July of 2018. Their works, a lot of which involves drilling and digging out deep holes for placing foundations for large buildings, industrial projects, bridges and anything […]
Rotherham Factory Drone Roof Survey Inspection
Using drones and camera poles to inspect and survey factory and commercial roofing is probably in our top 5 most undertaken work, and for obvious reasons. It’s very easy to use a drone to photograph and video every inch of a roof and guttering, plus all the details such as chimneys and top hats, flues […]
Old Historic Mill Property Aerial Photography
Occasionally, a lot less than you might imagine for an aerial photography company, we get asked to capture some images of large houses and interesting developments of old buildings such as this historic mill near Harrogate in North Yorkshire. Most of our drone and video production work is either for the TV, corporate or construction […]
Coal Mines Mining Drone Aerial Video Yorkshire Nottinghamshire
This month we have seen a new environment for us, working at various open cast coal mines around Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, with a couple more in the pipeline. In this instance were were working with a photographer, Jodie Leanne, who has an exciting gig working as a photography and video maker for a company that […]
Glasgow Subway Control Centre Drone Construction Survey
Dawson Wam, the Belfast based UK-wide piling construction company, are installing foundation piling for Glasgow’s subway train system’s new control centre near the railway terminus sheds in the Govan district of Scotland’s busiest city. We were there with our drones and 360 cameras to collect aerial images and drone video clips of the very start […]
Dawson Wam Piling Drone Construction Progress Mexborough
Dawson WAM is a Belfast based company, with offices throughout the UK and Ireland, that specialises in construction pilingĀ works for various size projects including bridges, motorways, underground water systems and anything that requires large excavations and foundations. Sky Filming works with them regularly, capturing images and video clips of their excavation works in action, […]
BBC One Show Drone Filming Land Art
Earlier this month we had another aerial filming job with BBC’s The One Show art segment, this time filming the creation of Land Art with Yorkshire artist James Brunt and his team at the splendid Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in South Yorkshire. In case you don’t know, Land Art is designs that are made outside […]