Miami Real Estate Photography
Listing photography, drone aerials and 3D tours for Miami agents — with the building paperwork, elevator bookings and Class B airspace filings handled before the shoot starts.
Estate Shutter Florida is a real estate photography studio shooting listings across Miami and the rest of Miami-Dade County. We photograph condo units, waterfront single-family homes and historic estates, and we deliver HDR interiors, drone aerials, 3D tours, floor plans and video. Packages start at $199, galleries are delivered within 24 hours, and phone bookings are invoiced after gallery approval; online: 20% deposit, balance after delivery. Rated 5.0 from 61 Google reviews.
- Service area
- Miami and all of Miami-Dade County. Mobile studio — we come to the listing.
- Starting price
- $199 (Basic, under 1,500 sq ft). Standard with drone from $399.
- Turnaround
- 24 hours standard. Next-morning rush available on request.
- Payment
- Invoice after gallery approval. No deposit when you book by phone.
- MLS
- Delivered sized and named for Miami MLS (MIAMI REALTORS / Matrix), plus a full-resolution print set.
- Aerial
- Part 107 pilots, LAANC filed for Miami Class B before every flight.
5.0 from 61 Google reviews24-hour deliveryFrom $199 · pay after you approve when you book by phone · 20% deposit online; balance after delivery
Recent Work in Miami
Newest deliveries from our Miami crew — drone, twilight, and interior shoots that helped these listings stand out.
Rooftop Infinity Pool with Miami Skyline
Cinematic luxury amenity photography highlighting rooftop pool design, skyline views, and elevated lifestyle marketing.
Lakefront Estate Aerial Overview
Wide aerial showcase of a lakefront estate with resort-style pool, private dock, and expansive shoreline.
Virtually Staged Master Bedroom
Elegant virtually staged bedroom with teal accents and modern furnishings.
Mediterranean Style Home
Beautiful Mediterranean home with barrel tile roof and tropical landscaping.
Designer Kitchen with Navy Island
Stunning modern kitchen with gray cabinetry, navy island, and geometric backsplash.
Screened Patio with Garden View
Inviting screened patio with flagstone flooring and lush garden views.
What we shoot in Miami
Condo and high-rise units
Most Miami listings are units, not houses. We shoot the room and the view in one frame — bracketed exposures blended so the glass reads as a bay or skyline view rather than a white rectangle — plus the amenity deck, lobby and building exterior buyers judge the address by.
Waterfront and dock detail
On Biscayne Bay, the Miami River and the finger islands, the value is in the water access. We shoot the dock, the seawall, the bridge clearance downstream and the aerial that shows how long it actually takes to reach open water.
Historic and Mediterranean architecture
Coconut Grove, Morningside and the Upper East Side MiMo district reward straight verticals and late-afternoon light on stucco and coral rock. We shoot these from further back with a longer lens so the proportions survive.
Twilight for the lead image
A Miami listing competes in a thumbnail grid against dozens of comparable units posted the same week. A twilight exterior or a dusk skyline aerial is the single most reliable way to win the click.
Shooting in Miami: what is actually different
Miami is a condo market first, and condo buildings are the reason shoots run late. Almost everything below is paperwork and scheduling rather than photography, which is why we handle it before the shoot date rather than at the front desk on the morning.
Building access and certificates of insurance
Most Brickell, Edgewater, Downtown and Midtown towers treat a photographer as a vendor. That means a certificate of insurance naming the association as additional insured, filed with management ahead of time — usually 24 to 72 hours. We keep a current COI and send it to management as soon as a shoot is booked, so nobody is standing in a lobby arguing about it.
Elevator reservations and loading access
Buildings with a service elevator normally require it to be reserved for any vendor carrying equipment, and many restrict vendor hours to weekdays between roughly 9am and 4pm. Some also require the loading dock rather than the porte-cochère. We ask for the building rules at booking and schedule around the window management gives us.
Amenity and common-area permissions
Pool decks, gyms, lobbies and rooftop terraces are what actually differentiate one Brickell two-bedroom from the next, but many associations require separate written permission and a no-residents-in-frame rule. We photograph amenities early in the morning when they are empty and the permission is straightforward.
Class B airspace over most of the city
Miami International sits west of Downtown and its Class B airspace covers most of the city, with Miami Executive (TMB) to the south and Opa-locka (OPF) to the north. Every flight in that airspace needs LAANC authorisation, and in some grids the ceiling is 0 ft, which means no flight without a further-coordination request. Aerial work is flown by FAA Part 107 certificated remote pilots; LAANC authorisation is filed by the pilot before every controlled-airspace flight. We check the grid for the exact address before we quote drone, so nobody promises an aerial that cannot legally happen.
Summer storms and the shoot calendar
From June through September the convective pattern builds through the afternoon almost daily. We book Miami exteriors in the morning during those months and hold twilight slots for the drier half of the year. If a storm kills a scheduled twilight, we reshoot the exterior at no charge rather than delivering a grey sky.
Impact glass and mixed light
Post-2002 towers are glazed with tinted impact glass that throws a green or blue cast across interiors, and it fights the warm LED fixtures most units are furnished with. We white-balance per room and correct the cast on the way out rather than leaving it to a batch preset, which is why Miami interiors from a phone look sickly and these do not.
Services we shoot in Miami
Drone photography in Miami
Aerials place a tower on the bay, show a finger-island home relative to open water, or give a Coconut Grove estate the canopy context a ground shot cannot. Because most of Miami sits under the MIA Class B shelf, every flight is planned around the LAANC grid ceiling for that address. Where the grid is 0 ft we either file for further coordination in advance or tell you up front that the listing gets rooftop and elevated-floor angles instead.
Miami drone photography3D virtual tours in Miami
A large share of Miami contracts are written by buyers who never walk the unit first — out-of-state relocations, Latin American and European buyers, and investors. A scanned 3D tour with accurate room measurements answers the questions those buyers would otherwise ask by email over a week. For condos we scan the unit and, where the association allows, the amenity floor too.
3D tours and MatterportVideo walkthroughs
A vertical reel for social and a horizontal walkthrough for the listing page, both cut from the same visit. In Miami the walkthrough usually starts at the building entrance rather than the unit door, because the address and the amenity deck are doing as much selling as the kitchen.
Video walkthroughsTwilight exteriors
Blue hour in Miami runs roughly 25 minutes, and the useful window for a bay-facing exterior is shorter still. We arrive an hour early, light the interior so the windows glow warm against the dusk, and shoot both the ground exterior and — airspace permitting — a dusk aerial of the building against the skyline.
Twilight photographyVirtual staging for empty units
Empty Miami condos photograph as small and cold. Virtual staging on three to six frames fixes the scale problem for a fraction of physical staging. Florida MLS rules require staged images to be disclosed as digitally altered, and we label every staged file so the disclosure is straightforward.
Virtual stagingMiami real estate photography pricing
Every Miami shoot is priced from the same square-footage matrix as the rest of South Florida — there is no Miami surcharge. A typical Brickell or Edgewater one- to two-bedroom falls in the lowest tier; a Coconut Grove or Coral Gables single-family home usually lands two tiers up. Book by phone: no deposit — invoiced after you approve the gallery. Book online: a 20% deposit holds your slot; balance after delivery.
| 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 |
- New clients get 10% off Standard & Pro on your first shoot — code FIRSTSHOOT.
- No travel fee anywhere in Miami-Dade County.
- Amenity and lobby coverage is included with any condo shoot at no extra charge.
- If a building denies access on the day despite a filed COI, we reschedule at no cost.
- Drone is included from the Standard package up; it can also be added to Basic.
- Weather reshoots on exteriors and twilight are free.
Miami photography challenges we solve
Every Miami listing is different. Here's how we make each property's strengths impossible to miss.
The view is the product, and glass fights you for it
A bay-view Brickell unit lives or dies on whether the water is visible in the photo. A single exposure gives you either a lit room and a white window, or a visible view and a black room.
Buildings, not sellers, control the schedule
Vendor hours, elevator reservations and COI filing windows routinely push a shoot two or three days past when the agent wanted it live.
Drone is not always legal at that address
Much of Miami sits under Class B airspace where the LAANC ceiling can be 0 ft, and some buildings prohibit launching from their property outright.
Empty investor units photograph badly
A large share of Miami condo inventory is unfurnished, and empty rooms read as small, dark and generic in a thumbnail grid.
How a Miami booking works
Book
Pick a package, address and a preferred window. Confirmation within 1 hour during business hours.
Shoot
Photo, drone and Zillow 3D on-site. For high-floor condos we shoot bay and skyline views at the light that makes the unit look its best.
Deliver
Edited gallery, MLS-ready files, drone and any 3D tour delivered in 24 hours.
The Miami market, and how we shoot for it
Miami sells to people who are not in Miami. A large share of contracts here are written by buyers relocating from another state or another country, and for those buyers the listing photos are not a preview of the showing — they are the showing. The first cut happens in a thumbnail grid on a phone, usually in a different time zone.
That changes what a Miami listing shoot has to contain. A gallery that covers the unit but not the amenity deck, the lobby, the building exterior and the view line is an incomplete answer to the questions a remote buyer actually has: what is this building, what is around it, and how far is the water. We shoot all of it in one visit, because a second visit means another COI, another elevator reservation and another three days.
The operational reality is the other half. Miami buildings have vendor rules, the city sits under Class B airspace, and from June to September the sky is unusable after about 2pm. None of that is visible in a finished gallery, which is exactly why it decides whether the gallery arrives on time.
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Near Miami, and what else we shoot
Nearby cities
- Miami Beach real estate photographyOceanfront condo towers, the Venetian and Sunset Islands.
- Coral Gables real estate photographyHistoric Mediterranean estates and Gables Estates waterfront.
- Coconut Grove real estate photographyBayfront homes under the banyan canopy.
- Key Biscayne real estate photographyIsland market with its own bridge-access logistics.
Services
- Drone photographyHow LAANC and Class B airspace actually work over South Florida.
- 3D virtual toursScanned tours with measurements, for buyers who cannot walk the unit.
- Twilight photographyThe lead image that wins the thumbnail.
- Pricing & packagesEvery price by square footage, plus add-ons — one page, no quotes needed.
Ready to showcase your Miami property?
24-hour delivery, FAA Part 107 drone, Zillow 3D, and 10% off Standard & Pro on your first shoot — code FIRSTSHOOT. Book by phone: no deposit — invoiced after you approve the gallery. Book online: a 20% deposit holds your slot; balance after delivery.
More about real estate photography in Miami, Miami-Dade County
Estate Shutter Florida photographs residential listings across Miami and Miami-Dade County: condo units in Brickell, Edgewater and Downtown; waterfront homes on the bay, the river and the finger islands; and historic single-family homes in Coconut Grove, Morningside and the Upper East Side. Every shoot includes HDR interiors and exteriors, and drone, 3D tours, floor plans and video are available on the same visit.
Miami market at a glance
- Coverage: all of Miami-Dade County, with no travel fee inside the county
- Delivery: online gallery within 24 hours, MLS-sized and full-resolution sets
- Pricing: from $199, by square footage, invoiced after you approve when booking by phone; online: 20% deposit, balance after delivery
- Condo shoots include amenity, lobby and building-exterior coverage
- Certificate of insurance filed with the association before the shoot
- Aerials flown by FAA Part 107 certificated pilots with LAANC filed per flight
What we specialize in here
- High-rise condo interiors with the bay or skyline view held through the glass
- Amenity decks, lobbies and building exteriors for tower listings
- Waterfront homes with dock, seawall and open-water-access aerials
- Mediterranean, Art Deco and MiMo architecture shot for straight verticals
- Twilight exteriors and dusk skyline aerials for lead images
- Virtual staging for empty investor units, disclosed per MLS rules
How we shoot Miami listings
- Remote and international buyers make the first cut from photos alone, so the gallery has to answer building-level questions, not just unit-level ones
- Condo vendor rules — COI, elevator reservations, amenity permissions — are the most common cause of a delayed Miami shoot
- Class B airspace over most of the city means drone availability is address-specific and has to be checked before it is promised
- Afternoon convective storms from June to September make morning exteriors the default half the year
- Tinted impact glazing shifts interior colour and needs per-room correction rather than a batch preset
Last updated September 17, 2026 by Estate Shutter Florida. Prices and coverage verified on this date.