Gallery-quality prints of your home, your wedding, your favourite stretch of coast — captured by drone, finished by craft printers.
From file to wall
An aerial photograph is at its most powerful when it is printed large and hung. The detail of a coastline from above, the geometry of a property, the specific quality of light on a particular day — all of this gains real presence at scale, and a high-quality print of an aerial image becomes a piece of art that genuinely belongs on a wall rather than a screen.
We work with private clients to commission and produce gallery-quality prints from aerial photographs — either from images we have captured for them, or from a fresh shoot commissioned specifically for the print. The print is the deliverable; the shoot is built around it.
Print sizes, finishes, and framing
We work with established Melbourne-based fine art print labs to produce archival-quality giclée prints on cotton rag, matte fibre, or metallic papers, depending on the image and the intended room. Standard sizes start at A2 and run to large-format pieces of 1.5 metres on the long edge. Custom sizing and panoramic stitches are available for the right brief.
Framing is offered in a curated range of profiles — whitewashed oak, blackened ash, brushed brass, museum white — selected for their compatibility with contemporary and heritage interiors alike. Where you have an existing framer or interior designer you would prefer to use, we are equally happy to deliver the print unframed for finishing in your hands.
Commissioning a fresh aerial shoot for print
If you would like to commission a print of your own home, your favourite stretch of coast, the venue where you were married, or any other location with personal significance, we will plan and execute the shoot specifically with the print in mind — choosing the time of day, the season, and the angle that will produce an image worth living with for decades.
The shoot becomes a small commission of its own and the resulting print is built from the strongest single frame, edited to a print-grade colour standard. Pricing depends on the location, complexity, and final print size; get in touch and we will quote the project as a whole.
Care, longevity, and reorders
Our prints are produced to archival standards, with pigment inks rated for over 100 years on cotton rag under normal indoor display conditions. We retain the master files for our clients and can produce additional copies — for gifts, for moves, for second homes — at any time after the original commission.
If you have an aerial image from another source — a holiday photograph, a frame from an existing wedding film, a still from a previous shoot — we are happy to advise on whether it will scale to print and to manage the production end on your behalf.
Why local pilots make a difference
There is a meaningful difference between a drone operator who travels into a suburb for the first time on shoot day and one who flies it week in, week out. Local familiarity translates into faster setup, smarter shot lists, fewer wasted batteries chasing the wrong light, and a much higher hit rate of usable frames per hour on site. Bayside Aerial is based on the bayside and our pilots fly Elwood, St Kilda, Brighton, Albert Park, Port Melbourne and the surrounding inner-south suburbs constantly.
That regularity matters specifically for printed stills from aerial shots work. Each suburb has its own combination of helicopter flight paths, residential overflight density, beach-crowd patterns, prevailing winds across Port Phillip Bay, and seasonal airspace activity around major events. We track all of this as part of routine flight planning, and our clients benefit from never having a shoot delayed by a regulatory issue we should have spotted in advance.
How we deliver, and what to expect
Most engagements begin with a brief — an email, a phone call, or a meeting on site. We respond within one working day with availability, indicative pricing, and any clarifying questions. Quotes are fixed where the brief allows; hourly where the brief is open-ended. We invoice on completion and accept bank transfer, card, or PayPal.
Imagery is delivered through a private gallery link with full-resolution download, typically within 24 to 48 hours for fast-turnaround real estate work and within one to two weeks for larger commissions. Where the engagement involves video, we deliver master files in the codecs and frame rates your platform requires, alongside vertical and square cuts for social where these have been part of the brief.
We are quiet on site, dressed neutrally, and unobtrusive in the way we work. We do not bring spectators. We arrive on time and we leave a site no more disturbed than we found it. Many of our long-standing clients tell us this professionalism — as much as the imagery itself — is the reason they continue to book us.
Compliance & insurance — what it means for your project
Bayside Aerial is CASA accredited and the chief pilot is UK GVC and A2CofC trained, with full third-party public liability insurance. ABN 51 325 381 892. All flights are logged in accordance with CASA requirements, and all imagery is geo-tagged and time-stamped. We can supply documentation for review by clients, body corporates, builders, or insurers on request.
This compliance matters in practical ways. Real estate listing portals will not accept aerial imagery from non-compliant operators. Construction sites and tier-one builders require sub-contractor pre-qualification with current insurance. Wedding venues increasingly ask for evidence of cover. Insurance claims involving drone imagery require flight logs and pilot credentials. Where any of these matter to your project, we have the paperwork ready.
Ready to fly?
Whatever your project, every shoot is approached with care, craft and full CASA compliance. Get in touch with a brief and a date — we respond to enquiries within one working day.