Overview For 100 years SEGRO has been creating space that enables extraordinary things to happen. From modern big box warehouses to urban warehousing, SEGRO provides high-quality buildings that allow their customers to thrive. SEGRO tasked High Level Photography with creating aerial photography that did the scale and quality of their sites justice. The Challenge […]
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Case Study – Aerial shoot for SEGRO: 14 sites at London Heathrow
Photographing 27 Sites in 48 Hours.
Our clients do like to challenge us! In the middle of the harsh Lockdown 3.0, we were asked if we could complete the photography of 27 properties (care homes) within the following week. The challenge was they were located all around the UK. The odds were stacked against us. We were in the middle of […]
Quick Guide: Drone or Plane?
Drones are now standard kit for most photographers but their use on commercial assignments are heavily regulated especially in tight urban environments.test We have been flying drones since the outset and our experienced drone team are fully qualified with relevant permissions and, of course, insurance cover. We fly planes, helicopters, drones and our vans are […]
11 Years Since New Beginnings
Celebrating 11 years of being under the ownership of Ian Leslie, we look back at our humble beginnings and see how we’ve evolved with an ever-competitive industry. When High Level Photography was established in 1985 by founder Keith Hallam, it ran successfully specialising in Highway CCTV surveys and commercial property photography. When Keith decided […]
Only use approved commercial drone operators or you could be out of pocket – warns CAA
If you are paying someone to fly a drone you must check that they have the necessary safety approval, or you could be paying for an illegal operator that won’t be insured if things go wrong, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) warned today. Anyone being paid to fly a drone needs to be an […]
A Day in the Life – On assignment with a High Level Photographer (Part 2)
Time to venture inside. From our experience we find that apart from the ever unpredictable UK weather, internals can be the most problematic and time consuming element of our job. Often the photographer reports on site as pre-arranged by our client only to find the relevant contact is not available or doesn’t know anything about […]
A Day in the Life – On assignment with a High Level Photographer (Part 1)
Camera bag checked, cards formatted, van packed, weather checked – ready to go. Another day in the life of a High Level photographer setting off from the office near Woking, Surrey, heading out on the road to nowhere – or on this occasion, Greenwich in East London! Having been thoroughly briefed by the Ops Manager […]
Not so Winter Blues!
Despite a forecast of rolling fog blanketing most of the UK, Paul Wells the High Level pilot had planned this aerial assignment with perfect precision and was under no illusion that it would be anything other than perfect at each of our destinations. With photographer Bryony Bishop alongside, ‘Oscar Bravo’, the High Level plane confidently took […]
Diary of a Long Distance Aerial Photographer – Part Two
Finally we head inland to our next site which is an industrial estate in Gateshead where a cloud shadow over our target checked our progress as we waited for it to clear. Once complete we pinned our ears back for another long leg, this time heading west to Preston, Lancashire. Our track took us over […]
Diary of a Long Distance Aerial Photographer – Part One
Tyres kicked, pre-flight checks complete, fuel tanks full, bladders empty, tower clearance received and away we go… Climbing into the Surrey skies for an aerial photography mission that will take us in a big circuit around much of England. It is one of those rare weather days in the UK where the forecasts are pretty […]