Best Real Estate Photographers 2022
Patrick Bertolino
Patrick Bertolino is a freelance real estate photographer based in Houston. Backed with 20 years of experience, he prides himself in transforming the ordinary into something exceptional in photographing commercial and architectural spaces. He can deliver MLS images within twenty-four hours. Clients’ listing will be photographed by Patrick Bertolino himself.
Texas Home Photo
Texas Home Photo provides real estate photography services throughout the Houston area. They also specialize in full-motion video, 3D Matterport tours, and aerial drone services. All photos are in HDR, scheduling is provided promptly and the quality is unmatched. Texas Home Photo has been reputed in the area to be the premier company and has been trusted by agents who are looking for quality images to increase the level of marketing.
JAProPhoto
JAProPhoto is a Houston-based photography studio of professional photographer, James Allen. He specializes in commercial and real estate photography and promises excellent professional results for clients. JAProPhoto uses HDR technology, creative lighting, and natural light to deliver high-quality image in the most balanced and aesthetically pleasing way possible. James Allen prioritizes clients’ satisfaction and offers a variety of packages and pricing subject to clients’ approval.
MLS Shots Real Estate Photography
MLS Shots Real Estate Photography specializes in corporate, industrial, event, architectural, VR-panoramic, real estate and aviation photography. They apply their Christian values to their business and have committed to delivering the best service to each client. The photographer Mel Garrett is also a commercial pilot and has extensive experience in aerial and aviation photography. Their team’s experiences in Photoshop, graphic artwork, and photo enhancement techniques result in the highest quality and sharpest images for their clients. MLS Shots Real Estate Photography has an extensive list of clients including Exxon Corp., Channel 55, and Texas Children’s Hospital.
TruPlace
TruPlace is a real estate photography service provider that focuses on vibrant colors and imaging. Catering to clients in Houston, the company has different enhancing options for shots like greener grass and clear window views. It also provides photo URLs to track each property gallery's web traffic. Its photographers use a special proprietary system to ensure each image is consistently vivid and colorful. It also offers to add virtual changes like fireplaces and twilight settings.
PlusCorp Photography and Marketing
Based in Houston, PlusCorp Photography and Marketing specializes in providing the highest quality commercial real estate photography, virtual tours (Matterport 3D scans and 360° photography), 4K video tours, and aerial drone services that help companies and real estate professionals visually enhance their online presence. PlusCorp offers comprehensive packages for a single property or multi-property portfolio. Its team brings decades of combined experience in photography, drone piloting, and real estate.
Attractive Listing
Attractive Listing is a real estate photography company that serves Houston areas in Texas. They offer photography session, HD video tour, aerial photography, dusk photography, immersion 3D, virtual staging, and flyer design at reasonable prices. The company is a team of nine photographers and editors who guarantee quality service. They also provide free installation of signage with every photo session.
Rockbait Photo Tours
Rockbait Photo Tours has been a trusted source for real estate photography and marketing solutions serving the greater Houston area since 2007. They offer residential, commercial, sunset, aerial, and elevated photography. Additionally, they offer design and production of brochures, flyers, postcards, and single property websites. Their highly trained team of six photographers and design specialists are known for being responsive and timely with a laser focus on the details. Owner Aaron Raney himself was a real estate agent which gives him the advantage of truly knowing the business on a personal level.
Josade Real Estate Photography
Josade Real Estate Photography offers quality photography services in the Northwest Houston area. They also offer services for flyer designs. With 20 years of experience in photography, they strive to produce the highest quality photos and flyers and guarantee a 24 hour turnaround time for photos. Josade Real Estate Photography uses various techniques including stitched panoramic photography, HDR, and sky replacement for optimal results.
Houston Home Images, LLC
Houston Home Images provides real estate photography in the greater Houston area. They provide real estate agents and homeowners high-quality images for their MLS listings and marketing materials. Clients can choose from their wide array of services including photo tours, evening photography, designs for brochures and postcards. Houston Home Images’ services can also be packaged together to meet the different needs of clients.
Jennifer Martino Photography
Jennifer Martino Photography provides real estate photography for realtors and home sellers throughout Sugarland, Texas and nearby areas. They offer a wide range of services including video, slideshow, twilight photos. They provide clients professional interaction and fast, digital delivery. Detailed invoices are also provided in advance. Jennifer Martino Photography utilizes HDR techniques in low-light exterior photos and editing tools to provide quality images.
Houston Real Estate Photography
Located in Spring, Houston Real Estate Photography serves residential and commercial customers throughout the metro area. Founded by a licensed real estate professional and photographer, it knows how to make an impact with the right image. The company aims to schedule listings with 24-48 hours notice and deliver photos on the same day as the shoot. The company's services include HDR, twilight, and aerial photography, as well as advising clients on the preparation of their listings and showings.
HJ Real Estate Photography and Tours
HJ Real Estate Photography and Tours has been providing photography and video services for real estate listings in the Houston area since 1991.They can also create virtual tours, brochures, and slideshows for realtors and home sellers, and they provide an extensive portfolio of sample photographs, videos, and references clients. HJ Real Estate Photography also offers free estimates with no hidden fees.
DWLLNG
DWLLNG is a Houston-based real estate photography business that helps its clients market their properties by highlighting their distinctive features with luxury photography. It provides different options, including daylight, twilight, and aerial photography—all of which include the replacement of an overcast sky to increase the quality of images. It also conducts editorial shoots, virtual staging, and cinematic videography. Additionally, DWLLNG offers 3D Interactive Matterport tours, enabling users to visually explore a property's various areas from a 360-degree vantage point.
Studio Lamy
Studio Lamy is a Houston-based photography service by Michel Lamy, who specializes in real estate photography. Michel takes photos of rentals, commercial buildings, hotels, parks, and RVs. He provides retouched and sized images for portfolio and marketing purposes. In addition to photographing properties for homeowners and realtors, he performs portraits, studio photography, food and beverage styling, and product photography. Michel has been in the business for 15 years. Since picking up a camera when he was 12, photography has become his hobby and passion.
John Pace Photography
John Pace Photography serves the Houston and surrounding areas with professional photography for realtors, builders, architects and interior designers since 2013. They provide images that are crafted from a combination of ambient light and strobes, resulting in true to life images. They also provide twenty-five finished images in high resolution and web-ready formats within twenty-four hours. If clients are unhappy with the images, they are willing to either reshoot the location or provide a full refund.
TK Images
TK Images, established in 2002, is a real estate photography company serving the Houston area. The photography team uses state-of-the-art equipment with a wide angle lens, which allows for a greater scope than a regular point and shoot setup. Professional lighting is provided to ensure each photograph portrays the property to its best advantage. Owner Julie Pistone Krampitz is a licensed broker herself which means she understands how the real estate business operates. TK images has been a winner of AIA Austin Award and Dream Home Award.
Expert Answers To Common Questions:
- Introduction
- Why use professional photography for real estate?
- What equipment is needed for real estate photography?
- Is it necessary to be licensed to be a real estate photographer?
- Do sellers or real estate agents pay for real estate photography?
- How do real estate photographers charge?
- What are specialty services that a real estate photographer would offer?
- How long will a real estate photography session last?
- What is a reasonable timeline to receive final images from the photographer?
- What is a blue sky guarantee?
- Is it better to have the home furnished or unfurnished in professional photographs?
- What are some tips to prepare a home to be photographed?
- Will the photographer stage the home to be photographed?
- Q: Introduction
- A: With the advancement of smartphone cameras, you may be tempted to forego hiring a real estate photographer in favor of taking images of the property yourself. It seems simple enough, and you can look at other professional photographs to get an idea of what angles to use.However, this approach might eventually end up costing you more than you would save. Especially since amateur smartphone photos aren't going to compete with professional photos in real estate listings. A professional photographer has the right training, experience, and equipment to take the best possible photos of the property you're attempting to sell.
- Q: Why use professional photography for real estate?
- A: Properties listed with professional photos are known to sell faster and for more money. All effective professional marketing utilizes high-quality, professional photos, and this conditions buyers' responses to attractive, premium images.
- Q: What equipment is needed for real estate photography?
- A: An experienced real estate photographer has the following equipment to take first-rate photos to sell your property fast:
- High-quality digital camera
- Wide-angle lens
- Tripod
- External flash units
- Lens filters
- Light meter
- Photo editing software
- Q: Is it necessary to be licensed to be a real estate photographer?
- A: Photography isn't regulated by the federal government, so it doesn't require a license. Many real estate photographers have anywhere from a certificate in photography to a bachelor's degree. Experience and a portfolio of high-quality photos is generally enough to qualify for the job.
- Q: Do sellers or real estate agents pay for real estate photography?
- A: The real estate agents pay for the photos. The seller acquires the services of a real estate agent to advertise and promote the sale of the property. The agent then compiles an accurate representation of the property in advertisements and promotions through images.
- Q: How do real estate photographers charge?
- A: Some photographers base their prices on square footage, and others charge a flat rate and tack on extra for the following:
- Larger than average properties
- Number of photos needed
- Amount of post-processing editing requested
- Extras, such as twilight shoots, areal photography, and video
- Q: What are specialty services that a real estate photographer would offer?
- A:
- Virtual staging: Virtual staging is the practice of adding furnishings and decor to empty rooms digitally through photo-editing software programs during post-processing.
- 3-D tours: A 3-D tour allows a prospective buyer to do a virtual walkthrough of the property while controlling which room they're in and the direction they're looking.
- 2-D floor plan creation: Some real estate photographers can use software to create a 2-D floor plan for your property.
- Aerial drone services: Some real estate photographers offer aerial drone photos or video, although, this is typically an additional charge.
- Real estate videos: A real estate video is a video walkthrough of the home, with or without aerial drone footage.
- Twilight photos/virtual twilight photos: Twilight, known as the golden hour, blue hour, or magic hour in film and image photography, gives the best lighting for images and videos, mainly because there are no stark shadows. A twilight sky can also be added or enhanced digitally.
- Marketing flyers: Marketing flyers are color brochures used to promote a listing.
- Property websites: A property website is dedicated to one listing.
- Q: How long will a real estate photography session last?
- A: A real estate photo shoot can take anywhere from one to four hours, depending on the size of the home. The average is around two hours. Photographers charge premiums for twilight photo shoots because they can only do one per day.
- Q: What is a reasonable timeline to receive final images from the photographer?
- A: Most real estate photographers promise delivery of photos within 24 hours of the photo shoot but may send them sooner, even the next morning. Rush delivery is considered a premium charge and may not be feasible, depending on the photographer's prior commitments.
- Q: What is a blue sky guarantee?
- A: A blue sky guarantee is that at least half of the sky will be blue for exterior shots of the home regardless of the actual color of the sky when the photos are taken. This enhancement isn’t recommended for weather conditions where it would look unnatural to have a blue sky.
- Q: Is it better to have the home furnished or unfurnished in professional photographs?
- A: Staging, whether virtual or physical, is an important part of helping prospective buyers envision themselves living in the home, provided that the decor compliments the space. For a photographer that offers virtual staging, you want the home unfurnished with no artwork or drapes, so everything coordinates.
- Q: What are some tips to prepare a home to be photographed?
- A: Be sure to clean all surfaces and floors, especially mirrors, so they're pristine and spotless. Mow, landscape, and sweep the outside, and also clean the pool. For physical staging, remove any large items that make the room seem crowded. Open all window coverings to let in natural light.
- Q: Will the photographer stage the home to be photographed?
- A: The real estate agent prepares the home to be photographed, which includes staging. However, photographers may include virtual staging in their services. There's usually an additional charge for virtual staging, and it isn't typically part of a basic package.