Daren Clodio owns Aerial Perceptions, and flies it. The same person who scopes the job plans the flight, operates the aircraft, and hands over the footage or the file — whether that's a cinema drone on a film set or an RTK mapping aircraft over a construction site.
On assignmentDaren Clodio · FPV · ESPN / NCAA XC
Daren Clodio
FAA Part 107 Certified Drone Pilot
Owner & operator · Edmond, OK
I'm Daren Clodio, owner and operator of Aerial Perceptions, an Oklahoma-based drone services company I started in 2016. My interest in aerial photography began after purchasing my first drone in 2013, and it quickly grew into a career combining photography, cinematography, live broadcasting, and technical drone work.
Since earning my FAA Part 107 certification in 2017, I've worked on film productions, provided live drone coverage for events including Tulsa Tough and ESPN, and completed projects involving drone inspections, thermal imaging, orthomosaic mapping, 3D modeling, construction documentation, aerial photography, and cinematography.
I'm also the owner of Str8 Shooters Photography, where I provide professional real estate photography throughout Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. Whether I'm capturing a cinematic aerial shot, inspecting a structure, mapping a site, or flying FPV through an interior space, I enjoy using drone technology to create useful, accurate, and visually compelling results.
Nothing here was a career plan. Each step opened up work the one before it couldn't reach.
Bought a drone, started shooting from the air, and found the thing that would end up being the job.
Where it startedThe hobby became a company, based in Edmond and working across the Oklahoma City metro.
Edmond, OKCertification and insurance opened the work up: commercial productions, inspections, and mapping, flown legally and documented properly.
Certified & insuredFirst place at the Thunderbird Drone Festival, in the Made in Oklahoma – Films category.
AwardFilm and broadcast work on one side, certified inspection and mapping data on the other, flown across Oklahoma and nationwide.
ESPN · Tulsa Tough · IMDbNothing here is subcontracted or rented for the day: the mapping aircraft, the thermal airframe, the cinema bodies, and the FPV rigs are all owned and flown by us.
The fleetDJI Matrice 4E
RTK mapping aircraft behind the orthomosaics, point clouds, and terrain models.
DJI Matrice 4 Thermal
Radiometric thermal, spotlight, AI detection, and loudspeaker in one airframe.
DJI Mavic 4 Pro Cine
Cine-grade capture for film, television, and brand work.
DJI Mavic 3 Pro
Second cinema body for stills, listings, and progress capture.
FPV drones
Fast, close, continuous moves a cinema drone can't fly.
DJI SDR transmission
The link that puts a drone feed into a live production.
Also owned by Daren Clodio
Full-service real estate photography: photography, videography, drone imagery, floor plans, and 3D tours throughout Oklahoma City and surrounding areas.
