FAA Part 107 licensed drone photography and video across Chicago and the suburbs. Real estate, events, construction, and inspections, shot legally and safely in some of the busiest airspace in the country.

Anyone can buy a drone. Flying one legally, safely, and well is a different thing entirely.

SBS Media is fully FAA Part 107 certified, with registered aircraft and the authorizations needed to fly legally, even in the restricted airspace that covers most of the Chicago area. You get the shot without the liability.

Aerial work changes how a property or an event reads. A listing shot from above shows the lot, the roofline, and the neighborhood in a way ground photos never can. An event captured from the air gives you the scale of the whole thing, the crowd, the venue, the moment, in a single frame. I shoot both stills and video from the air and deliver them ready to use.

The work covers more than overhead shots. Real estate and property marketing, event coverage, construction progress documentation, and roof and structure inspections that keep people off ladders and steep pitches. If you need a specific deliverable, tell me what it is and I'll tell you straight whether a drone is the right tool for the job.

Flying legally in Chicago is the hard part, and it's where most operators cut corners. The airspace here sits under the approach paths for O'Hare and Midway, two of the busiest airports in the country, so much of the metro requires authorization before a drone ever leaves the ground. I hold that authorization and pull it for each job, which means your shoot happens on schedule instead of getting grounded.

And because I handle your ground photography and video too, the aerial footage matches everything else instead of looking like it came from a separate shoot. One person, one consistent look, start to finish.

Tell me the property or the event and where it is, and I'll send a quote the same day.