Austin, Texas · Real estate & short-term rental
Austin, Texas · Real estate & short-term rental
Bracketed on a tripod at a fixed eye level, merged in Lightroom, then composited and colour-matched in Photoshop so the set reads as one house when a buyer scrolls it.
Every fixture in the house was a different bulb. Measured off the ceilings rather than the walls, the rooms ran from a laundry at Lab b* +13.6 down to a bedroom at −12.5 — a 26-point spread inside one property. Left alone, a buyer scrolling the listing sees eleven different houses.
So the fix happened before the shutter: a walkthrough the day before, a written bulb-and-staging list to the host's team, and then a per-room white balance target on the back end. The delivered set holds one look from the front door to the back deck.
Photography is the base. The rest exists because a listing competes on a phone screen against forty others, and stills alone stopped being enough.
HDR-bracketed interiors and exteriors on a tripod at a fixed eye level, merged and colour-matched room to room. Delivered numbered in the order they should be uploaded.
from $275A real blue-hour return trip, not a sky swap. Windows lit from inside, lamps on, one hero frame that becomes the cover photo.
$145 add-onA 60–90 second walkthrough shot on gimbal in log and graded in DaVinci Resolve — the same pipeline as the narrative work. Delivered horizontal for the listing and vertical for social.
from $450Three cut-to-music vertical edits per property, sized for Instagram, TikTok and the listing's own feed. Captions and cover frames included.
$275 / set of 3Lot lines, roof condition, and the neighbourhood context buyers actually ask about. Flown by a licensed Part 107 operator on my crew; scheduled alongside the ground shoot so it is one visit, one invoice.
from $195A walkable 3D capture of the property with a dimensioned floor plan, hosted and embeddable. Doubles as a dated condition record for damage claims and insurance.
from $225Empty rooms furnished, permanent eyesores removed, seasonal grass and skies corrected. Both versions delivered so you choose what goes live.
$45 / imageI walk the property the day before, photograph every problem, and send back a prioritised fix list paired to the frame that shows it. Included free from the Signature tier up.
$95 standaloneI visit the property, photograph every room, and send a prioritised fix list to whoever turns the place over. Bulbs, staging, cords, bins. Fixing a room costs minutes; retouching it costs hours and never quite works.
Tripod, fixed eye level, five-frame stacks at a four-stop spread on every composition. Verticals held within a degree. Exteriors timed to the light, and a second trip back at blue hour when twilight is on the order.
Brackets merged, then every room pulled to one measured colour target instead of eyeballed room by room. Windows recovered from the dark frames rather than blown out. Composites done in Photoshop on real captures.
Files numbered in the exact order they should be uploaded, cover frame called out, full-resolution masters available, and a short note on anything the property itself should fix before the next set.
On the last property that walkthrough produced 155 reference photographs and a 36-item list, sorted into must-fix, should-fix and nice-to-have, each item paired with the frame that shows it. The host's team worked from it the same afternoon.
It is the cheapest thing on the price list and it is the reason the photographs come back clean. A green stock tank cannot be fixed in Lightroom. It can be fixed in a day with chemistry, if somebody says so in time.
Add it to a booking →Treat and run the filter starting today, skim the surface, wipe the waterline. Water needs to be clear by tomorrow morning — highest-impact item on the list.
They land in the background of every pool angle. Five minutes to move.
Standardise every fixture on 2700K soft white. Mixed colour temperature is the hardest thing to correct afterwards and makes one house look like three.
Scrub the treads; where marks will not lift, plan on a runner. Touch up the baseboard.
Every package includes premium editing, MLS and web sizing, unlimited marketing use of the images, and delivery the next business morning.
Built for Airbnb and Vrbo operators rather than agents. Airbnb takes stills only — no video, no embedded tours — so the package puts the effort where the platform actually rewards it, and gives you the video separately for the channels that do.
| Service | Detail | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Twilight exterior | Blue-hour return visit, one hero frame | $145 |
| Aerial stills | Up to 15 finished aerials, licensed Part 107 pilot | $195 |
| Aerial video | Graded aerial sequence, cut into the tour | $395 |
| Cinematic video tour | 60–90 seconds, horizontal and vertical | $450 |
| Vertical reels | Set of three, cut to music, captioned | $275 |
| 3D tour & floor plan | Walkable capture, dimensioned plan, hosted | $225 |
| Virtual staging | Per image, both versions delivered | $45 |
| Object removal retouch | Per image, fixed items only | $25 |
| Pre-shoot property report | Standalone; free from Signature up | $95 |
| Same-day rush delivery | Booked before 11am, delivered that night | $95 |
| Over 3,500 sq ft | Per additional 1,000 sq ft | $60 |
| Travel beyond 40 miles | From central Austin, per mile | $0.65 |
I am Jose Duran. I run JD Productions out of Austin, where I have spent the last three years shooting and colouring music videos, short films and commercial work — the kind of jobs where a client will look at two versions of the same frame and pick the one that is four points warmer.
Property photography turned out to be the same discipline pointed at a different subject. Most listing sets fail for one reason: the rooms do not match. One kitchen too yellow, one bedroom too blue, and the eye reads the whole property as cheap without ever knowing why. Fixing that is not a photography problem. It is a colour problem, and it is what I do all day.
I shoot the property myself, I grade it myself, and I tell you what the house needs before I ever set up a tripod. English and Spanish, whichever is easier for your team.
Next business morning by 9am for every package. Video runs 48 hours. If you book before 11am and need them the same night, rush delivery is $95.
No — and any photographer who tells you otherwise has not checked. Airbnb home listings accept still photographs only. There is no video slot, no 3D embed, and the content policy blocks external links in listing text. That is exactly why the short-term rental package puts the photography effort into the listing itself and delivers video separately, for your direct-booking site, Google Business Profile, and the property's own social.
Yes. The pre-shoot report matters most on those. I walk the property the day before, send the fix list, and shoot around whatever cannot be moved. Both the shot and the retouched version come back so you decide what goes live.
I will shoot what is ready and come back for the rest at no additional charge if the walkthrough happened and the list went out. If there was no walkthrough and the house is not shootable, we reschedule.
You get unlimited marketing use for the property — MLS, listing sites, print, social, your own site, for as long as you want it. I keep copyright and the right to show the work in this portfolio. Exclusive buyouts are available on request.
Austin and 40 miles out — Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, Dripping Springs and Bastrop are all inside that. Beyond it, $0.65 a mile from central Austin.
On the compositing, yes — the same masking and retouching tools a working retoucher uses, applied to frames I actually shot. Never to invent a room, a view, a sky that was not there, or space that does not exist. Virtual staging is always labelled and always delivered alongside the unstaged original.
Send the address, the square footage and the date you need it live. I will come back with a time and a fixed price the same day.