Eleven years behind a camera, eight of them inside a real estate brokerage, now shooting listings across the Las Vegas valley.
For eight years I was the in house creative director at RE/MAX Executive in Charlotte, one of the largest RE/MAX brokerages in the country. I sat in the sales meetings. I built the listing presentations. I watched what happened to a listing when the photos were rushed, and what happened when they were not.
I also shot for that brokerage as a staff photographer, which means thousands of rooms, hundreds of agents and every kind of difficult lighting a house can throw at you. Outside of real estate I have shot commercial work for resorts, including an image that ended up on a billboard.
Las Vegas is home now. The architecture is different here, the light is harder, and the buyer is often three states away looking at a phone. That last part is exactly why the photography matters more in this market than in most.
Plenty of people in this valley own a wide angle lens. Fewer of them are reliable, and fewer still understand what a listing has to do.
You will not get a lecture about gear. You get someone who knows what a listing presentation looks like, what the seller is going to ask, and which frame belongs first in the gallery.
The twilight hero is light painted by hand during the actual blue hour. No pasted sky, no purple haze. It is the single most clicked image on almost every listing that has one.
Twenty four hours, every time, with rush available. You can tell a seller when the photos will be ready and be right.
Sellers and tenants are watching. I show up on time, dressed for a client meeting, and I put the house back the way I found it.
Send the address, square footage and target date. You get a confirmed time slot the same day.
I send a short prep list for the seller or cleaner. Lights on, blinds set, cars moved, counters clear.
Interiors and exteriors on site, usually 60 to 120 minutes depending on size. Twilight runs at blue hour.
Edited gallery within 24 hours, MLS sized and full resolution, ready to download and license free for the listing.
Send over the listing details. If the timing works I will hold the date while you talk to the seller.