Real estate photography, videography, and 3D services produce the visual media that markets properties: professional photos, video tours, drone footage, and immersive 3D walkthroughs (such as Matterport) used in listings and marketing, in exchange for per-shoot or per-property fees.
Log in to followBeen doing photo work part time for about eight months while I figure out whether the investing side or the service side is where I actually belong. Current numbers: 11 to 14 shoo…
Full gut on a 1950s ranch, cabinets are 3 weeks out, and the agent wants photos now to start building interest. Her suggestion was shoot the empty kitchen and have the photographe…
One of our owners wants better marketing on a vacant 2 bed we're re-listing and the agent said get a virtual tour. So I asked two vendors. One quoted $145 for a virtual tour, one…
Six weeks into taking paid work. Gear is bought and paid for, about $4,300 all in for a body, two lenses, a flash setup, and a tripod, plus $99 a month for editing software and cl…
I priced a three-format package off a spreadsheet last fall and ran it for a quarter before I looked at the actuals properly. Posting the numbers because the failure is boring and…
Small portfolio, and I've always taken my own listing photos to save money. Two bedroom unit, $1,450 a month, and I shot it on my phone at 4pm on a Thursday because that's when th…
Still finishing my license, so I've been picking up shoots on weekends to have some cash coming in while I study. Saturday was the first one someone actually paid me for. A 1,600…
I'm building a small service business around real estate and photography is the piece I keep circling. A property manager I talk to said her last vendor showed up with an iPhone o…
Under contract discussions on a 6-unit about 700 miles from me, 1968 brick, all 2 bed units, asking $640k, seller says gross rents are $6,150 a month. The listing has eleven photo…
A photographer I know through an agent I've worked with is looking for money to buy a second 3D capture camera plus a laptop, call it $6,000 to $7,000, and pay it back out of shoo…
I want income that doesn't turn into a second job, which is why I've stayed on the property side. But someone I know reasonably well is selling half of his real estate media busin…
Third flip in a row where the media schedule and the punch list have argued with each other and the punch list lost. My pattern has been to book the shoot for Thursday morning so…