iPhone real estate photography

Correction can rescue a slightly dark, slightly orange room. It cannot invent light that wasn't in the frame, and it cannot recover a window that's been blown to pure white. Getting the light roughly right is the whole job.

• —Bright overcast is the ideal. Soft, even, no hard shadow lines across the floor.
• —Every curtain and blind fully open. Daylight is your light source.
• —Every lamp and ceiling light off. Mixing warm bulbs with daylight is what produces the half-orange, half-blue look no correction handles cleanly.
• —Avoid direct midday sun streaming through a window — it clips highlights permanently.
• —Exteriors: sun behind you. Front-lit buildings photograph better than silhouettes. Late afternoon for west-facing, morning for east-facing.

• —Corners, not doorways. A corner shows two walls and gives the room depth; a doorway shot flattens it into a box.
• —Chest height, roughly 1.5m. Higher makes the ceiling dominate; lower makes the floor dominate.
• —Phone level, never tilted. Tilting up makes walls converge; tilting down makes furniture loom. Level is the single highest-leverage habit in this guide.
• —Square to a wall where you can. One wall parallel to the frame edge reads as intentional.
• —Three frames per room, from different corners. Choosing later is cheaper than going back.

Aim for 20–30 images for a one or two-bedroom, more for a house. Platform-specific size and aspect-ratio expectations are on the requirements by platform pages.

• —Clear every counter — kitchen, bathroom, bedside. Empty surfaces read as spacious.
• —Floors clear: shoes, cables, chargers, bins, pet bowls, drying racks.
• —Beds made tight, cushions squared, towels folded and matching.
• —Toilet lids down, bins out of frame, fridge magnets off.
• —Blinds all set to the same angle in every room — mismatched slats look careless.
• —Lights off, curtains open, one last look through the frame before you shoot.

Assume the photos come off the phone dark, warm, and slightly leaning. That is the normal output of a phone camera indoors, and it's what separates your set from a professional one.

• —Exposure. Phones meter for the bright window and underexpose the room around it. Lifting the room without clipping the window is correction number one.
• —White balance. Indoor light drags everything orange. Neutralising it makes white walls read white and paint colours read true.
• —Vertical geometry. Straightening door frames and wall edges is the single change that most makes a photo look shot on a real camera.

Listing-grade does exactly those three across a whole set at once, so the gallery reads consistently rather than photo by photo. It deliberately does not add furniture, remove damage, or change the room — the photo has to match what someone finds on arrival.

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