TimeSake Media
Cape Town · Western Cape

Drone Photography in Cape Town.

Aerial stills and 4K aerial video captured with a DJI Mavic 3 Cinema. We fly to SACAA Part 101 hobby rules — daylight only, line of sight, away from controlled airspace — and route around Cape Town International, Lanseria and Rand Airport CTRs by default.

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Local craft · Cape Town

Drone Photography & Video in Cape Town — how we work locally

Cape Town drone photography wraps around the wind clock. Atlantic Seaboard — Camps Bay, Clifton, Bantry Bay, Bakoven — flies best in the first two hours after sunrise before the southeaster arrives. Bloubergstrand, Big Bay and Table View take the same rule, with the added benefit that a north-looking aerial reads the property against Table Mountain if the timing is right. Constantia and Bishopscourt fly well in the afternoon; Hout Bay is a special case with valley wind that can ground a shoot without warning. False Bay coast — Muizenberg, St James, Simon's Town — has cleaner mornings and slower afternoons, and the water colour changes dramatically with the light. We stay clear of the Cape Town International 10km ring around the southern suburbs and out of the V&A Waterfront no-fly by default.

On-site rhythm

Every Cape Town shoot is planned around light, wind and load-shedding — we brief the schedule the night before and confirm the call time with the agent or homeowner.

Airspace and legality in South Africa

Commercial-for-hire flights in South Africa formally require a SACAA Remote Operator Certificate (ROC) plus an individual Remote Pilot Licence (RPL). Property media shoots for the property owner or their appointed marketing party operate under the Part 101 hobby-rules exemption when they meet every one of the following conditions: daylight, line of sight, below 400 feet, at least 50m from people not participating, at least 50m from private property outside the shoot boundary, and outside any 10km airport ring. Every flight is logged with GPS coordinates, launch time, battery serial and pilot ID. If a shoot needs a controlled-airspace flight, we book it through a partner operator who holds a current ROC — we do not fly grey and we do not lose an agent's licence for a drone plate.

Highveld thunderstorms and altitude

Johannesburg drone work has the opposite problem: it is calm in the morning and violent in the afternoon. Summer thunderstorms build from the west from about 14:00 and the outflow winds arrive 30 minutes before the rain. We finish all exterior aerials by 13:00 in December through March and shift longer flights to winter months where the Highveld light is cleaner and the storms are absent. Altitude is a real consideration too — the Mavic 3 loses about 15% of its rated flight time at 1700m above sea level, and we plan battery cycles around it so the pilot is never over a property with a red battery warning.

Data delivery and licensing

Every drone shoot ships eight to fifteen edited stills at 20 megapixels, a 30-second aerial reel where the brief calls for it, and the GPS-logged shot list so the flight is fully documented for the estate manager and the seller. The raw DNGs stay on our archive for two years. Licensing follows the same 24-month paid-media rule as our stills — the agent and the agency can use every plate in listing ads, brochures and social media without extra fees. Where the shoot is on a security estate that requires a written scan of the aerial imagery, we submit the final selection to the estate manager for sign-off before delivery.

Recent frames from Cape Town

Leloko living room, editorial daylight interior
Drone plate over a Cape Town property
Kitchen and dining, morning light
Bedroom with garden view
Aerial exterior of estate villa
Twilight exterior with lit interiors

Suburbs we cover for Drone Photography & Video in Cape Town

Every suburb below has its own aspect, its own drone-airspace note, and its own architectural language. Click through for a page written specifically for that address.

Case studies

Sunset drone plates over a Camps Bay villa
Camps Bay, Cape Town
Sunset drone plates over a Camps Bay villa

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