Real Estate Photography Shot List Generator
Build a grouped shot plan you can agree on with your photographer before the shoot.
How coverage gets decided
A shot list is grouped rather than counted. Exterior covers the approach and elevations, interior scales with the bedrooms and bathrooms you enter, features adds frames only for what the property actually has, and aerial appears when a drone is part of the shoot.
That is why two homes of the same square footage can need different coverage. A Catalina Foothills three-bedroom with a pool, a casita and a mountain view has more to say than a three-bedroom without, and the list reflects it. Around Oro Valley and Marana the lot and the approach often earn frames of their own, which floor area alone would never predict.
Agreeing coverage before the shoot
The value of a shot list is settling expectations while there is still time to change them. Bring it to the walkthrough, mark anything the seller particularly wants captured, and flag anything that will not photograph well so it can be dealt with beforehand.
The totals are a planning range, not a delivery promise. The final count moves once compositions are chosen on site and near-duplicates are removed — a good set of 28 frames beats a padded set of 45.
Common questions
- How many photos does a listing need?
- Enough to show every space once and the best ones twice. The generator produces a range based on the rooms and features you enter, which is a better guide than a fixed number.
- What is the aerial group?
- Drone frames that give context a ground camera cannot — the approach, the rear of the lot, the neighborhood and roughly where the boundaries sit. It appears only when you say a drone is available.
- Does vacant land need a shot list?
- Yes, and it is a short one. Land listings around Tucson skip interiors entirely and lean on exterior context and aerial coverage, which is exactly what the generator returns for them.
- Do lot lines shown on aerials mean legal boundaries?
- No. Any boundary shown in a photograph is approximate and for orientation only. Buyers should rely on a survey, never on a picture.