AFFORDABLE PRICES,
GREAT RESULTS
At SiFoto LLC we pride ourselves creating the best quality images for our customers that will stand the test of time. We have the ability to serve all of our clients photographic needs to include, cooperate head shots / portraiture, residential, commercial, and Industrial interior building photography, Product photography, Event photography and of course aerial photography. By utilizing the latest technology and most sophisticated camera equipment, Sifoto delivers the highest quality and best value photography services available in the US. Our specially designed remote piloted aircraft are capable of flying at altitudes from 6 inches up to 120 meters (400 feet) above any structure. We are able to get very close to the action, unlike helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft. Our professional remote piloted aircraft are specially designed to capture the perfect shot or video footage. We can capture the highest resolution still or motion video images to meet all of your aerial photography and cinematography needs. Our latest UAV's incorporate Real Time Kinematics (RTK) which is perfect for aerial survey inspections. We are FAA certified and fully insured, and we’re ready to work with you to ensure you’re 100% satisfied.
RealEstate
Looking to get an edge over your competitors in the marketplace? Remote piloted aircraft aerial photography and videography is the new standard for high-end real estate marketing. From our breath-taking aerial views to 360⁰ exterior tours, the team at SiFoto is ready to create a seamless promotional package to set your listings apart from the competition. We run an efficient and safe operation, ensuring that your project remains on-time and within budget.
Our specialized remote piloted aircraft technology has the ability to provide unparalleled, high-resolution aerial photographs and video for your home or your client’s real estate listing.
Premium properties that boast large blocks or million dollar views can also be appreciated in more dimensions using drones to capture the full picture. And the rise of video popularity online means a property in the spotlight is likely to reach an even wider audience through YouTube and social media.
The use of a remote piloted aircraft to show off a property from never seen before angles. We like the idea, as it adds to the drama and media-rich engagement of the buyer. We would rather watch a two-minute video of a property looking it’s best than some boring shots of the bedrooms, bathrooms, and lounge.”
The birds-eye view provides a great assessment of the entire estate or property that cannot be achieved by typical ground photography. We also provide interior videography to get that smooth, beautiful high-resolution video of the property.
Asset Inspection Services
SiFoto Aerial Photography remote piloted aircraft Asset Inspections, remote piloted aircraft Inspection services are designed for inspecting hazardous and difficult to access assets and structures.
We can inspect the following:
Roof Inspections
Mobile phone towers
Bridges Inspection
Flare Stack Inspection
Solar Panel Inspection
Wind Turbine Blade Inspection
One advantage of the plant & asset inspections service that we provide is that it causes no disruption to operations, we only require a few square meters for launch and retrieval often working from the perimeter of customer sites.
SiFoto Aerial photography remote piloted aircraft is precision controlled and is lightweight in construction so we can operate up close to subjects gaining a better view without compromising property or your safety. Our ability to conduct such highly detailed asset inspections from the air is unique providing a safer, more cost-effective and timely outcome for our customers.
Our equipment is small and lightweight and can be transported anywhere at short notice.
Our remote piloted aircraft transmits a live video feed to our base station monitor which allows our customers to see what the camera sees in real time. This enables qualified personnel to make informed decisions based on live imagery and data. The high-resolution data stored on our remote piloted aircraft can then be viewed in greater detail on the ground and then used in reports.
The safety of all employees in any situation is the most important consideration. Our Remote Piloted Aircraft can be sent in to do the dangerous and risky inspection tasks that would otherwise have to be done by a person. This removes the possibility of someone being injured or killed in high-risk situations.
SiFoto Aerial Photography – asset inspections service offers four major advantages to plant managers:
It is much safer (no personnel need to work at heights)
It’s much quicker (what takes a crane a week to do we can often accomplish in a day)
It’s more convenient and causes no disruption to site operations
Typically, with less time comes significantly less cost.
Insurance
Remote piloted aircraft for the insurance industry conducting Insurance Inspections
Three realistic scenarios for employing remote piloted aircraft in the insurance industry:
Firstly, remote piloted aircraft have the potential to significantly change property adjusting. Instead of climbing scaffoldings and ladders to assess rooflines, and chimneys or renting scissor lifts and boom trucks to determine the cause and extent of fire damage claims adjusters can deploy a remote piloted aircraft to analyze hazardous situations without sacrificing sure footing or disturbing the scene.
“When armed with a remote piloted aircraft, adjusters are able to capture better evidence, including close-ups, wide angles, and zooming capabilities … all told, remote piloted aircraft enable adjusters to carry less, stay safe and greatly improve evidence collection.”
Secondly, the enhanced productivity of risk engineers. With the availability of remote piloted aircraft, a generalist, rather than a specialist, can be sent to the field to assess risk.
“The generalist can easily work with the remote piloted aircraft pilot to guide the remote piloted aircraft through the property to capture videos and photos while using recorded voice dictations to note what they see.
“All this creates more accurate and timely reports, without wasting a risk engineer’s time traveling from one location to another.
Remote piloted aircraft not only reduce the demands of specialized workers, they also save time for all involved, eliminate the need for multiple site visits and significantly reduce the cost and turnaround time for completing risk-assessment reports.
Thirdly, this is especially true of catastrophe claims like those currently being seen across the US, where adjusters might encounter damaged or blocked roads, fallen trees, broken power lines and other safety hazards while evaluating losses.
When used properly, remote piloted aircraft have the potential to cut claim payout times in half, without sacrificing due diligence as remote piloted aircraft increase the speed and efficiency of risk engineers and adjusters, they also compress the time it takes for claims to get paid, which improves customer satisfaction.
Sports and Events
SiFoto can capture the excitement at your next sporting event
From club sports competitions to all-day outdoor festivals, SiFoto is ready to capture the energy and excitement of your particular event.
Sports
Angles and views that were, until now, only accessible to professional sports teams are now available to all with our versatile systems. Operating safely and efficiently, our aerial cameras provide unique coverage that is unavailable from the sidelines. When blended with our high-end ground capabilities, we produce seamless videos and galleries that showcase your organization’s true spirit.
Drones are changing the way many things are being photographed and one of these is capturing sporting events. For the fans watching back home, camera angles are ultra important.
Ground camera technology has increasingly gotten better with time, but it has plateaued. There really are a limited amount of angles you can get on flat ground. That’s where remote piloted aircraft photography comes in, as it truly gives the viewer a whole different perspective.
Benefits of Using Drones to Film Sports
Drones offer many benefits that traditional photography just can’t compete with. One of the most important is that these drones can travel virtually anywhere. As long as they aren’t interfering with the sport, they are good to go. This means they can go out to the ocean for water sports, or the top of mountains for winter sports. This is why they are able to capture such incredible shots.
Another huge benefit of commercial remote piloted aircraft is their quickness and maneuverability. These drones are able to cover some serious ground, with some having top speeds of over 50 mph! Add that lightning fast speed to the fact that they are small and can maneuver in and out of difficult places. Also, the gimbals on the cameras allow the photographers to capture the highest quality images, usually in stunning 4k.
Best of all, they are around the same price as a normal photographer. The drone just needs a drone operator and a good quality drone costs several grand; about the same as a camera. Drones have really made aerial photography much more affordable and therefore much more widely used.
Sports Captured
This use of drones first caught the public’s attention when they were used in the 2014 Sochi Olympics to film skiing and snowboarding events. Since then, drone photography in sports took off and they are now used for a variety of sports.
Most of the sports that are being filmed with drones fall into the category of action sports. I already mentioned the two at the Olympics, but other ones include car racing, the X Games, Supercross, surfing, and skateboarding.
The reason these sports are most commonly filmed by remote piloted aircraft has to do with the benefits these drones have that was already mentioned. These are some of the fastest moving and unpredictable sports out there.
Some of them, like surfing, are not in arenas, but just in the environment. This makes it hard for viewers and camera crews to get good shots of the action. Drones change that as they are fast moving and can travel within feet from these athletes. For example, with the winter sports at the Olympics, drones were literally hovering meters away from skiers as they shot down slopes. This gave the audience a first-person view, one that simply wasn’t possible before.
Other more traditional sports that they have filmed include cricket in Australia and some soccer games around the world It may take some time for them to become used more widespread with stadium sports.
That is due to the fact that a stadium is much more contained and they already have large pieces of infrastructure for filming. Also, overhead views aren’t as liked in these sports and the technology is already there to provide them anyway. Still, you may start to see more major sports implementing drones into their filming in the future as the popularity of them rises.
Fly Overs
Drones may only be used once or twice in a sporting event for fly-overs. These shots have been around for decades and are usually just quick little time fillers after a commercial break. They give a unique and stunning shot to the viewers of the competition.
These used to be expensive because the camera crews would have to use helicopters or blimps. Now, fly-overs are much more common with drones. It really wouldn’t make sense to do them with any other piece of technology.
For example, Fox Sports have been using them for fly-overs for golf, NASCAR, and many other sports. This goes to show that drones are sometimes used as the major camera angle, or just an occasional novel one. Next time you see a quick fly-over shot, you can almost be sure a drone filmed it.
Other Uses in Sports
While commercial remote piloted aircraft do offer incredible views for the fans, they actually are advantageous for coaches and athletes as well. More and more, coaches of American football, baseball, and soccer have been using these in practices to further analyze their players.
Being able to break down and look at practice from an overhead view is giving many coaches a huge advantage. They can get extremely up and close and examine small nuances that they may have missed during practices.
Future of Drones in Sports
All of this innovation in the sporting world with drones has all taken place in just the last couple of years. It truly begs the question: what’s next?
Some have suggested that one day, drones may take the place of on the field referees. The drones would follow the plays, probably much better than any human could do, and then the ref would make the call from the sideline, from the view they saw from the drone. It’d be pretty crazy and probably very unlikely in the future, but you never know.
Besides just filming sports, drones now actually are the sport. Drone racing is something that just took off with FPV drone racing. This has already gotten million dollars TV deals with giants like ESPN. It’s quite impressive seeing how skilled some of these operators are, as they navigate through tough obstacles and compete to see who can finish first.
Contact SiFoto for Your Next Sporting Event
You can watch down below one of our own aerial photographer's film a water skier and boats. This is just one great example of the many action sports that we could possibly film for you.
If you ever need any type of sporting event photographed, don’t hesitate to contact us. We are the leaders in drone photography in South Carolina and we would love to use our state of the art remote piloted aircraft to capture exciting action footage.
Filming with drones gives you a unique viewpoint that will blow people away and it is relatively cheap. Our contact information is listed at the top of this page, so reach out to us if you have any other additional questions about this service. Prices aren’t included here, as it varies extremely with the work required, but we would happily be able to give you an estimate once we receive the details.
Event Coverage
From wedding photography to outdoor music festivals, at SiFoto we have the expertise to document your specific occasion and tell the story you want to be told. Whether it is a waterfront concert, a groundbreaking ceremony, or a professional convention, you can trust our team to stay true to your vision and deliver the finished product you want.
