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I’ve had a passion for photography since childhood. After studying at Aberdeen University, qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor, and careers in surveying, photography & videography for Getty Images, as well as property development in London, I qualified as a commercial drone pilot in 2014 and set up Richard Elliott Aerial Filming.

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Specialising in remote areas, my stock photographs for Getty have sold to many prestigious clients over the last 30 years.

My final property development in London was the construction of “The Grey House” in Highgate Cemetery, which won major architectural awards for the design team.

During my ownership of the house I established it as a filming and event location; this continues, with large parts of the 2019 series of ‘Luther’ filmed in the house

Equipment we use

Inspire 2 / X7 / X5S
Our workhorse drones. We always have 3 Inspire 2s with us on shoots, with 2 DJI X7 Super 35mm cameras, a DJI X5S Micro 4/3 camera, & a full complement of lenses for both cameras, from (in 35mm terms) 24mm to 90mm.
All 3 Inspire 2s have CinemaDNG & ProRes licences, & we use fast SSDs for constant backup & to save waiting around at the end of filming days. As well as fulfilling Creative briefs, we use the Inspire 2s with GS Pro for industrial inspections.

Alta 8 / Mōvi Pro
Our heavy lift systems offer great flexibility for productions to use their preferred cameras & lenses, such as the Alexa Mini LF with Signature primes or RED Monster with Cooke primes.
We fly Alta 8s as day-to-day heavy lift aircraft, while our Vulcan Ravens are super heavy lift machines so can handle loads of up to 25kg safely.
The Movi Pro gimbal provides rock-steady footage while giving up to 3 axis lens control and stop/start capability via the Movi Controller.

Mavic 2 Pro
We take 2 Mavic 2 Pros to each shoot – extremely lightweight drones with 1-inch sensor Hasselblad cameras, perfect for recces & setting up shots ready for the heavier lift systems.

Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced
Used for infrastructure inspections such as power lines & mobile phone masts, we fly 2 M2EAs with dual thermal & visual cameras. Their RTK modules allow centimetre positioning accuracy.

DJI Cinematic FPV
Our DJI FPV drones head out with us on Creative shoots &, used sparingly, add a ‘first person view’ level of excitement to cinematic shots.

Ground cameras, gimbals & audio
Canon EOS C70 & EOS R5 with a selection of RF lenses from 15-500mm, GoPro Hero 9.
Mōvi Pro, Ronin RS2.
Sennheiser wireless audio.

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