You get you FAA Part 107 license yet?
My business partner has his and out where we live it's a pain to fly the drone legally.
So much of this area is restricted airspace. (Virginia Beach = Heavy military area. You could be anywhere in the adjacent cities and still be 15 minutes from an airport or military base).
For us, it's almost pointless to have the drone, and this area is fully of free lancers trying to get their foot in the door by any means.
They're destroying the market out here. A lot of people look at you crazy if you quote them more than $150 for a video.
There's so many people trying to build a name for themselves that they go out there and do work practically for free.
What they don't realize is that, that isn't a sustainable business model in the long run. So what we see happen is, someone spends a few hundred on equipment, goes out there and does work for dirt cheap, and then gives up a few months later, or starts to slack off on the edit work because they eventually find themselves unhappy barely making any money.
By then though, the local customers have gotten used to dirt cheap prices and believe 100% that, that is the real cost of quality content.
I say all that to say; with those drone shoots out here, people really try to hit you with absurd budgets. I'm talking $25 - $50 and that's it.
The realty market out here is the worst. Some of the biggest agencies out here only pay $125 for full video walk throughs, including 25 still shots, and you have to upload the video to their system yourself.
I'll never do one as the main shooter. shyts is way too hectic. bread is cool, when my homie doesnt undercharge people.
and walk away from it.
