How much does real estate photography cost in Miami Beach?

Miami Beach shoots start at $199 for a listing under 1,500 square feet and are priced by square footage. The Standard package with drone aerials and video starts at $399. There is no island or causeway surcharge, and phone bookings are invoiced after gallery approval; online: 20% deposit, balance after delivery.

Can you fly a drone over a Miami Beach listing?

Usually, but it takes planning. Miami Beach restricts drone launches from city parks and public beach areas, and the island sits under Miami International's Class B airspace, so we need both a compliant private launch site and LAANC authorisation. We confirm both before adding the aerial to your booking.

What time of day should my unit be photographed?

It depends which way it faces. East-facing oceanfront units photograph best early in the morning, before the water and sky blow out. West-facing bayfront units and island homes want the last hour of daylight and blue hour, when the skyline lights up across the bay.

Can you get into an oceanfront tower on Collins Avenue?

Yes. We file a certificate of insurance naming the association, reserve the service elevator and request amenity permission when the shoot is booked. Most buildings need one to three days, which is why we ask for the building name up front.

Do you photograph the pool deck and beach club too?

Yes, at no extra charge on a condo shoot, subject to the association's permission. For a Miami Beach tower the amenity deck and beach access are often the deciding factor between two similar units.

Are the photos sized for the MLS?

Yes. Every gallery ships as a set sized and named for Miami MLS (MIAMI REALTORS / Matrix) plus a full-resolution set for print and brokerage sites.

How do you shoot an Art Deco building without distorting it?

From across the street, with a longer focal length and corrected verticals, rather than with the ultra-wide lens used indoors. The geometry of a Deco façade is the asset, and a wide lens from the pavement destroys it.

Do you have a studio on Miami Beach?

Estate Shutter FL is a mobile studio. We travel to Miami Beach; there is no walk-in studio address in Miami Beach. Booking, approval and delivery all happen online or by phone.

Miami Beach Real Estate Photography

What we shoot in Miami Beach

Oceanfront condo units

East-facing units are shot early, before the sun climbs high enough to blow out the water and flatten the balcony view. We hold the horizon line and the ocean colour instead of delivering a white rectangle where the view should be.

Bayfront island estates

On the Venetian, Sunset, Palm and Hibiscus islands and North Bay Road, the sun sets behind the water. That makes these the strongest twilight properties in the county, and it makes the dock and the downtown skyline across the bay part of the frame.

Amenity decks and building context

A South of Fifth or Mid-Beach tower sells on the building as much as the unit. Pool deck, beach access, gym, lobby and the exterior elevation are all photographed on the same visit.

Art Deco and MiMo exteriors

The historic districts reward a longer lens from across the street rather than an ultra-wide from the pavement — geometry that stays straight and proportions that survive.

Latest Shoots

Recent Work in Miami Beach

Newest deliveries from our Miami Beach crew — drone, twilight, and interior shoots that helped these listings stand out.

INTERIOR

Oceanfront Condo Interior with Panoramic Views

Bright oceanfront interior photography showcasing floor-to-ceiling glass, soft neutral styling, and uninterrupted water views.

Miami Beach, FL

Nov 2024

CLIENT FAVORITE

Biscayne Plaza Commercial

Professional photography of Biscayne Plaza commercial development.

North Miami Beach, FL

Aug 2023

INTERIOR

Luxury Condo Interior

Luxury condo interior with HDR photography showcasing modern amenities and design.

Miami Beach, FL

May 2023

INTERIOR

Modern High-Rise Living

Contemporary high-rise condo featuring modern design and professional HDR photography.

Miami Beach, FL

Apr 2023

DRONE AERIAL

Fort Lauderdale Waterfront Mansion Aerial

Luxury aerial capture of a waterfront mansion with expansive grounds, private dockage, and strong canal-side curb appeal.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Dec 2024

DRONE AERIAL

Pompano Beach Waterfront Home Aerial

High-resolution drone photography showcasing dock frontage, canal access, and full waterfront property layout from above.

Pompano Beach, FL

Dec 2024

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Shooting in Miami Beach: what is actually different

Miami Beach is the most regulated place we shoot. The city governs drone launches, the historic districts govern exteriors, the associations govern access, and the island geography governs when the light is any good.

Where a drone can legally launch

Miami Beach restricts drone operation from city parks and public beach areas, which removes most of the obvious launch spots. That does not necessarily prevent the shot — it changes where the aircraft takes off from, which is usually private property with the owner's permission. Aerial work is flown by FAA Part 107 certificated remote pilots; LAANC authorisation is filed by the pilot before every controlled-airspace flight. We plan the launch point and the authorisation before the shoot rather than improvising on the day.

Class B airspace off MIA

Miami International's Class B airspace extends over the barrier island, so flights here need LAANC authorisation with an address-specific ceiling. Combined with the city launch rules, that makes Miami Beach the one market where we confirm the aerial is possible before it goes on the order.

Condo vendor rules on Collins and Ocean

Oceanfront towers run strict vendor programmes: a certificate of insurance naming the association, a reserved service elevator, restricted weekday vendor hours, and separate permission for the pool deck and beach club. Filing all of that takes one to three days, which is why we ask for the building name at booking.

Which side of the island the unit faces

East-facing oceanfront units want early morning — the light is behind the camera and the water is still blue. West-facing bayfront units want the last hour before sunset and blue hour, because that is when the skyline lights up across the water. Booking the wrong half of the day costs the listing its best frame.

Historic district exteriors

Much of South Beach and the MiMo corridor sits inside local historic districts, where the façade is the asset. Those buildings photograph badly with the ultra-wide lens used for interiors — verticals bow and the geometry that makes the architecture worth something disappears. We shoot them long, from distance, with the lens corrected.

Beach and street traffic

Ocean Drive, Lincoln Road and the beach itself are busy from mid-morning. Exteriors and aerials go early, both for the light and so the listing images are not full of strangers.

Services we shoot in Miami Beach

Drone photography in Miami Beach

The aerial here does something no ground shot can: it shows the barrier island, the ocean on one side and the bay on the other, and exactly where the property sits between them. Flights need both LAANC authorisation for the Class B shelf and a launch site that respects the city's park and beach restrictions, both of which are arranged before the shoot date.

Drone photography

3D virtual tours

Miami Beach has one of the highest shares of remote and international buyers in the county. A scanned tour with measurements lets a buyer in São Paulo or New York walk a Collins Avenue unit properly, and for a tower listing we scan the amenity floor too where the association allows it.

3D tours and Matterport

Video walkthroughs

On the island the walkthrough usually needs to establish the address first — the beach entrance, the lobby, the pool deck — before the unit door opens. That sequence is what justifies the price per square foot to a buyer comparing three similar units.

Video walkthroughs

Twilight exteriors

Bayfront and west-facing properties on North Bay Road and the islands get the best dusk in Miami-Dade, with the downtown skyline lighting up across the water behind the house. Booked as a planned session, not a hopeful add-on, because the usable window is around 20 minutes.

Twilight photography

Virtual staging

Common on vacated pied-à-terre units between seasonal tenancies. Staged frames are labelled as digitally altered so the MLS disclosure is clean.

Virtual staging

Miami Beach real estate photography package prices by square footage
Package	Starts at	What you get
Basic	$199Under 1,500 sqft	30–40 HDR interior + exterior photos · Color correction & sky replacement · 24-hour delivery · Unlimited usage rights
Basic+	$2990–1,500 sqft	40–50 HDR photos · Photo slideshow video with music · 2D floor plan with dimensions · 24-hour delivery
Standard	$3990–1,500 sqft	50–60 HDR photos + 4K cinematic video · FAA Part 107 drone aerials · 2D floor plan with measurements · Dedicated property website · 24-hour delivery
Pro	$6990–1,500 sqft	60–70 HDR photos + 3-min cinematic tour · Drone + community aerial footage · Zillow 3D / Zillow 3D virtual tour · 2D or 3D floor plan · 5 social-media reels + digital staging · 24-hour delivery

Miami Beach photography challenges we solve

Every Miami Beach listing is different. Here's how we make each property's strengths impossible to miss.

The ocean turns white by mid-morning

Shoot an east-facing oceanfront unit at 11am and the water and sky merge into one blown-out band behind the balcony.

Our approach: East-facing units are booked early, and the exposures are bracketed so the horizon and the water colour survive.

Drone rules and airspace stack on top of each other

The city restricts launching from parks and beach, and the Class B shelf overhead requires authorisation. Either one alone can stop a flight.

Our approach: Launch site and LAANC authorisation both confirmed before the aerial goes on the booking.

Tower access is a multi-day process

COI, elevator reservation, vendor hours and amenity permission are four separate approvals from the same association.

Our approach: All four requested at booking, so the shoot date is the date the shoot happens.

Historic façades fight the wide lens

The Deco and MiMo exteriors that give these listings their value distort badly when shot wide from the pavement.

Our approach: Longer focal length from across the street, with corrected verticals.

How a Miami Beach booking works

1

Book

Pick a package, address and a preferred window. Confirmation within 1 hour during business hours.

2

Shoot

Photo, drone and Zillow 3D on-site. We time exteriors for clean ocean light and add twilight frames that sell the beach-lifestyle story.

3

Deliver

Edited gallery, MLS-ready files, drone and any 3D tour delivered in 24 hours.

The Miami Beach market, and how we shoot for it

Miami Beach is two markets that happen to share a postcode. One is a vertical oceanfront condo market running from South of Fifth up Collins to North Beach, where the buyer is choosing between several similar units in several similar towers and the building itself is doing much of the selling. The other is a horizontal single-family market on the residential islands and North Bay Road, where the property is a waterfront estate with a dock, a private lawn and a view west across the bay.

They need opposite shoots. The tower listing needs amenity, lobby, beach access and the view line, and it needs the association's permission for most of that. The island estate needs dusk, the dock, the aerial that shows the water and the skyline, and a plan for where the drone is allowed to take off from.

The one thing they share is the light. Which side of the island a property faces decides which half of the day it should be photographed in, and getting that wrong is the most common reason a Miami Beach listing looks worse online than it does in person.

Miami Beach neighborhoods we cover

South of Fifth

South Beach

Flamingo / Lummus

Mid-Beach

North Beach

Venetian Islands

Sunset Islands

Palm & Hibiscus Islands

Star Island

North Bay Road

La Gorce

Normandy Shores

Bayshore

Nautilus

Collins Avenue corridor

MiMo historic district

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