JDaniel HayesPhotography and drone cinema

Cinema for the ground and the sky.

Photography and drone film for homes, events, and companies across Dallas-Fort Worth.

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Real estate

Homes that sell the view.

Twilight exteriors, aerial context, and interiors lit the way the home feels at six o'clock.

  • Twilight
  • Aerial
  • Interiors

Events

Events, covered from every angle.

Ground cameras for the faces, a drone for the scale, delivered while it still matters.

  • Same-week delivery

Corporate

Your company, in motion.

Headshots, facilities, brand films, and aerials for websites, pitches, and recruiting.

  • Stills
  • Film
  • Aerials

Drone cinema

Flight, directed like film.

Slow reveals, orbits, and tracking shots planned for the edit, not just the takeoff.

  • 4K
  • Orbits
  • Reveals
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Four kinds of work. One standard.

Every shoot is planned like a production: a shot list, a light plan, and a delivery date you can put on a calendar.

Real estate

Twilight exteriors, aerials, and interiors that move a listing.

from $275

Events

Ground cameras for the faces, a drone for the scale.

from $950

Corporate

Headshots, facilities, brand films, and aerials.

from $600

Drone cinema

Slow reveals, orbits, and tracking shots planned for the edit.

from $350

Selected work

Brick single-story home under a wide oak with the path lights on
Brick frontListing
Bride and groom under a white arbor, rose petals scattered down the aisle
The aisleWedding
Film crew behind a cinema camera and monitor, three actors on a pink sofa
Behind the cameraOn set
Open living and dining room with hardwood floors and white chairs
Living and diningListing
Couple in a red sari and gold kurta walking a rocky beach at sunset
Beach walkCouples
Spiral staircase seen from above, iron rail curling into a skylight
SpiralArchitecture
Two hands linked against a low sun, rings catching the light
Hands, sunsetEngagement
Living room with a brick fireplace, leather recliners, and a vaulted ceiling
Brick fireplaceListing
Camera operator in a red sweatshirt beside an ARRI cinema camera on a tripod
OperatorOn set

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Brick single-story home under a wide oak with the path lights on
Photography, on the groundListings, interiors, elevations
Slow aerial orbit over a Texas lake at dusk
Drone cinema, in the air4K, graded, planned flights

Process

How a
shoot
works

  1. 01 Brief

    A short call or form. We settle the shot list, the light we want, and the delivery date before anyone packs a bag.

  2. 02 Shoot day

    Ground cameras and the drone on one visit. Airspace is checked ahead of time and twilight is scheduled to the minute.

  3. 03 Edit

    Color, cleanup, and cuts. Stills are graded as a set so the gallery reads as one story, not forty photos.

  4. 04 Delivery

    A private online gallery with download sizes for MLS, print, and social. Film arrives as ready-to-post cuts.

Pricing

Packages

Every package can be tuned to the property, the venue, or the team. Travel inside Dallas-Fort Worth is included; North Texas beyond that is quoted by the mile.

A cinema camera and a folded drone on a dark table under a warm lampDallas-Fort Worth, TX. Available across North Texas.

Behind the lens

J. Daniel Hayes shoots stills and film from the ground and the air. The studio grew out of one conviction: a listing, an event, or a company deserves to be seen the way a film would show it, not the way a phone would.

One operator, one point of view, every shoot planned before the drone leaves the case. That is why galleries arrive on time and look like they belong together.

Dates go fast in spring and fall.

Book a shoot

Tell us what we are shooting.

Inquiries are answered within one business day. For a fixed date, the booking page reserves it with a deposit.