Thomas will guide you through advanced aerial photography techniques including 360° panoramas, multi-bracket exposure, and professional post-processing workflows. Along the way, you’ll receive practical guidance on composition, light, and framing - helping you consistently create striking images from the air.
 
Whether you’re taking your first steps into drone photography or looking to refine an established skill set, this 120 minute small group workshop (maximum four participants) offers expert tuition, practical insight, and hands-on flying in one of Scotland’s most historic landscapes.
 
Elevate your work, sharpen your technical ability, and gain the confidence to create truly exceptional aerial imagery.
 
What You’ll Learn
Safe and respectful drone flight planning
Better in-flight decision-making
Practical camera setup for aerial photography
Working with light, exposure, and composition
Improving sharpness, scale, and visual impact
A clean, professional post-processing workflow
Capturing immersive 360 photographs.
 
Location
This workshop takes place at The Kelpies in Falkirk, one of Scotland’s most recognisable modern landmarks and a spectacular location for aerial photography. Standing around 30 metres tall, the two monumental horse-head sculptures, Duke and Baron, provide an incredible subject from the air, with their scale, form and stainless-steel structure offering endless opportunities for creative compositions.
 
From above, you’ll explore different perspectives of The Kelpies and the surrounding Helix landscape, learning how altitude, angle, light and focal length can dramatically change an image. The location is particularly well suited to practising panoramas, exposure bracketing and more unusual top-down and architectural compositions.
 
With the Forth & Clyde Canal, surrounding parkland and wider Falkirk landscape providing additional context, the workshop offers the opportunity to create everything from detailed architectural photographs to sweeping aerial views featuring one of Scotland’s most iconic landmarks.
 
Important Information
This workshop is open to non-FPV drones that fall within the UK Open A1 category, including UK-class marked (UK0 / UK1), EU-class marked (C0 / C1), or any drone weighing under 250g.
All pilots must hold a valid UK Operator ID and Flyer ID.
All participants must hold their own valid drone insurance (£10 million public liability minimum). This must be presented before attending the workshop. Please email a copy of your insurance details to workshop@thekilted.photo quoting your name and order number.
All participants are responsible for operating their own aircraft and complying with Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulations.
Workshop may be cancelled at short notice due circumstances out with our control, for example weather or airspace restrictions. A full refund or the option to transfer to another date will be given.