Baltimore Airbnb photography
for short-term rental hosts.
Baltimore short-term rentals get booked on their photos, and the guest scrolling one at 11pm is booking a night, not buying the house, which changes what the photos have to do. We shoot short-term rentals across Baltimore City and Baltimore County the same way we shot more than 100 Airbnb units in New York. HDR on every frame, no photo limit, the full set back in 24 to 48 hours, and the rates published, from $200, so you know the cost before you text us.
A guest is booking a few nights, so the photos have a different job.
the door they'll find at midnight.
A for-sale listing photo has to sell the house. A short-term rental photo has to sell one specific stay, and the guest looking at it wants the same few things settled in the first swipe, whether the bed is made, whether the kitchen has a coffee maker and a full-size fridge, and whether the place looks like the nightly rate.
That's why we shoot a rental differently from a Canton rowhome that's going on the MLS. Someone booking a two-bedroom already knows it's a two-bedroom. What they can't tell from the listing is whether the towels are on the bed, whether the TV is on the wall, and whether the dining table seats the six people they're bringing, so those go in the frame on purpose. The rooms get shot from where a person would stand in them, at chest height, with the door to the next room open so the unit reads as one place instead of five separate boxes.
The Brightside Stays house in Rosedale, in Baltimore County, is one we shot that way. Its living room opens the set. Three tall windows in a bay, a leather sofa and loveseat, the ceiling fan, the TV on the wall, and the dining table already laid with white plates and mugs, because a guest wants to see that dinner is possible in there before they get to the square footage.
A buyer imagines living there. A guest just wants to know the bed is made.
What a guest checks in the first five photos.
Then they read the price.
A guest gives a listing a handful of photos before they decide whether to keep reading. The order of the first five is its own decision, and we don't leave it to whatever order the rooms happened to get shot in.
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The cover. The main living space with every lamp on.
The wide living room frame, shot from the doorway with the lamps on and the window held so the glass isn't a white rectangle. On the Rosedale house that's the three-window bay with the sofa and the set table in one frame. It's the photo that decides whether the guest opens the listing at all.
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The bed, made, from the foot of it.
A guest is paying for sleep. The frame shows the whole bed, the headboard, the nightstands and lamps on both sides, and the towels if they're stacked on the quilt. The guest bedroom in the Rosedale set has a gray upholstered headboard, two small white lamps, and folded gray towels on the spread, and the towels are in the frame because they answer a question a guest would otherwise message about.
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The kitchen, with the counter clear enough to cook on.
Guests screen for a kitchen they can use for a week, so the frame has to show the range, the fridge, the microwave and the coffee maker in one look. Granite, gray shaker doors, a knife block on the counter. If there's a fire extinguisher on the wall it stays in the photo, because a family booking a whole house wants to see it.
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The bathroom, lit, with the shower curtain pulled back.
The bath is the room a guest trusts least from a listing. We shoot it straight on with the vanity light and the overhead both on, the shower open, and nothing on the counter but soap. It's the frame that tells a guest the place is cleaned between stays.
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Where the door is.
Self check-in only works if the guest can find the door at midnight. The exterior frame shows the front of the house or the building entrance with the number visible, and the lockbox if there is one, so the check-in message has a photo to point at.
Fells Point to Rosedale, and the three counties around the city.
Same published rate.
Baltimore's short-term rentals sit where the visitors do. Fells Point and Canton rowhomes a few blocks off the water, Federal Hill for the stadium weekends, Mount Vernon walk-ups near the Peabody, and Hampden for the people who came for the Avenue.
Then there's the county. The Brightside Stays house sits in Rosedale, east of the city line in Baltimore County, and it's the kind of whole-house rental where every bedroom has to be photographed, attic included. Willis runs the Maryland side from Baltimore, and our Baltimore-based photographer works Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County. Book a unit in Columbia or Glen Burnie and it's the same job at the same rate as one in Canton.
If the property is going on the MLS instead, that's a different shot list and a different page. Our Baltimore real estate photography is the sale side of these same neighborhoods, and real estate photography in Maryland picks up the rest of the state past the county line.
The rowhouse in this frame is one of those, a South Hanover Street listing near Federal Hill that was shot to sell. The exposed brick and the plantation shutters are the subject there. In a rental, the brick would be the background and the sofa would be the subject.
Every room, the amenities, the door, and we don't count the photos.
One delivery link.
The question we get most from hosts is how many photos are included, and the answer is that we don't count them. A two-bedroom in Canton might need thirty frames to cover every room, the amenities and the door. A four-bedroom in Rosedale with an attic needs more. Either way it's one price by interior square footage, and the set is whatever the unit needs.
Before the shoot, the unit gets set the way a guest would find it. Beds made, towels out, lamps on, counters cleared down to the coffee maker, and the TV on if it's part of the pitch. That's the host's half hour before we arrive. We wrote up the full checklist in how to photograph a short-term rental, and it applies whether you hire us or shoot it yourself.
- Every room in HDR, run through the same five-stage processing as our listing work, so the window and the lamp both read in one frame.
- The amenities shot on purpose. The coffee setup, the workspace, the laundry, the patio, the parking spot.
- The exterior and the entrance, framed so a guest arriving after dark recognizes the building before they get out of the car.
- A walkthrough video from $150, or one of our 360 virtual tours from $300, shot while we're already standing in the unit.
- The full set back in 24 to 48 hours, one link, already sized for Airbnb, Vrbo and whatever direct-booking page you run.
The kitchen frame from the Rosedale set shows what that comes to. Gray shaker cabinets with black bar pulls, speckled granite, a stainless range with a gray towel folded over the handle, the coffee maker and the knife block left where the host had them, and the fire extinguisher still on the wall. A guest reading that frame can tell they could cook in it for a week.
That's also the frame that answers what a host can never quite settle in the listing text. Is there a real stove or a hot plate, a full fridge or a mini, a coffee maker or a kettle. One wide frame from the doorway answers all three, and the guest who was going to message about the kitchen books instead. We shoot it once from the door and again from the counter, so the appliances and the workspace each get a frame of their own.
Baltimore Airbnb photography rates, by interior square footage.
Quote within two business hours.
HDR photography for a Baltimore short-term rental starts at $200 for a unit up to 1,500 square feet and runs to $575 at 4,500 to 5,500. Anything larger than that, we quote. Interior square footage is what sets the tier, so the number reads the same in Baltimore as it does in Brooklyn, and the same whether you list one unit or run twenty. There's no minimum.
A walkthrough video starts at $150. A 360 virtual tour starts at $300 and carries six months of hosting with it. Put HDR and video together and the bundle starts at $300. Add the 360 tour and it starts at $575. The add-ons are flat, the same price on a studio as on a five-bedroom. Virtual staging runs $50 an image, and on a rental we'd usually talk you out of it, since the guest arrives to the real furniture and a staged photo sets up a complaint at check-in. Twilight is a $200 set, five HDR frames of the exterior shot at dusk. Rush runs $75 to $200 when the calendar has room for it. For a tier-by-tier walk through the numbers, read what an Airbnb photographer costs.
| Square Footage | HDR Photography | Video Walkthrough | 360 Virtual Tour |
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| 0 - 1,500 sq ft | $200 | $150 | $300 |
| 1,500 - 2,500 sq ft | $275 | $200 | $400 |
| 2,500 - 3,500 sq ft | $375 | $250 | $500 |
| 3,500 - 4,500 sq ft | $475 | $300 | $600 |
| 4,500 - 5,500 sq ft | $575 | $350 | $700 |
| 5,500+ sq ft | Custom Quote. Call or text (701) 566-9171 | ||
| Add-ons · pair with any package, any size | |||
| Virtual Staging | $50 per image | ||
| Twilight | $200 5 images, flat | ||
| Rush Service | From $75 same-week, scales with property size | ||
| Square Footage | HDR + Video | HDR + Video + 360 |
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| 0 - 1,500 sq ft | $300 | $575 |
| 1,500 - 2,500 sq ft | $400 | $775 |
| 2,500 - 3,500 sq ft | $525 | $975 |
| 3,500 - 4,500 sq ft | $675 | $1,200 |
| 4,500 - 5,500 sq ft | $775 | $1,400 |
| 5,500+ sq ft | Custom Quote. Call or text (701) 566-9171 | |
One unit or thirty. And two honest limits.
Same standard in Baltimore.
Most of our Airbnb work is in New York, where we worked directly with Airbnb on relisting units and with individual hosts across the five boroughs, and that body of work sits on our Airbnb photography page. Giggster named us a top real estate photography company, and our photos run on venue listings across Peerspace. Baltimore is where we're building the same thing, one house in Rosedale at a time.
A property manager sends the list of addresses and we book them in sequence, one after the next, so the whole portfolio comes back on the same HDR standard instead of ten different looks. A host with one Canton rowhome gets the shoot an operator with thirty gets, and there's no per-listing contract either way. Send the addresses through the contact page or text them to (240) 221-5818.
- Aerial and drone coverage is New York only. We don't fly in Baltimore. For a house with a yard or a rowhome with a roof deck, the twilight set at $200 covers the exterior.
- We can't promise bookings. The photos are the part we control. The nightly rate, the reviews and the calendar are yours.
The bedroom in this frame is one of those New York units, a small white room with a rattan pendant and a macrame wall hanging, and it's here because it's the same problem in a smaller box. Mixed light through a sheer curtain, a bed that takes up most of the floor, a guest who wants to know if the room is as bright as the photo. HDR holds the curtain and the lamp in one exposure, so the photo matches the room at check-in.
Portfolio work is where that standard shows up hardest. A guest scrolling a manager's ten listings notices when unit six looks like it was shot on a phone, and the whole book takes the hit. Same brackets, same processing, same crop on every unit, so ten listings read as one operator whether the manager has three doors in Canton or thirty across the county.
Questions Baltimore hosts ask before they book a shoot.
Send the address.
How much does Airbnb photography cost in Baltimore?
Airbnb photography in Baltimore starts at $200 for a unit up to 1,500 square feet of interior space and scales by square footage to $575 for 4,500 to 5,500, with anything larger quoted custom. A walkthrough video adds from $150 and a 360 virtual tour from $300. The rates are published and they are the same ones we charge in New York.
Do you photograph short-term rentals in Baltimore County, or just the city?
Baltimore County is covered, along with Baltimore City, Howard County and Anne Arundel County. The Brightside Stays house we photographed is in Rosedale, east of the city line, and we drive to Towson, Columbia or Glen Burnie on the same published rate as a Fells Point rowhome.
How many photos do you take for an Airbnb listing?
There is no photo limit. We shoot every room, the amenities a guest screens for, and the exterior, and the count is whatever the unit needs to be understood from the listing. Pricing is by interior square footage, so a bigger set never changes the price.
Should I photograph my Airbnb myself or hire a photographer?
Shooting it yourself is a fair option for a single unit if you have a wide lens, a tripod and an afternoon, and plenty of hosts do exactly that. The case for hiring comes down to HDR, which a phone struggles with in a room that has a window on one side and a lamp on the other, and to the hours of editing you would spend instead of hosting.
How fast do you deliver Airbnb photos in Baltimore?
Delivery is 24 to 48 hours from the shoot, in one link, sized for Airbnb, Vrbo and a direct-booking site. A rush add-on runs $75 to $200 when the calendar allows it, and a written quote comes back within two business hours of you sending the address.
Do you offer drone photography for Airbnb listings in Baltimore?
Drone and aerial coverage is New York only. In Baltimore the exterior gets covered from the ground, and for a house with a yard or a rowhome with a rooftop deck the twilight set, five HDR frames at dusk for $200, is what we would point you to.
Can you shoot a 360 virtual tour of a short-term rental?
A 360 virtual tour can be added to any Baltimore short-term rental shoot from $300, with six months of hosting included, and it lets a guest walk the unit room to room before they book. It is shot in the same visit as the photos, and the HDR plus video plus 360 bundle starts at $575.
Do you photograph whole portfolios for short-term rental operators?
Portfolios are scheduled in sequence, one address after the next, and every unit comes back on the same HDR standard we would give a single listing. There is no per-listing contract, and an operator with thirty units across Canton and Federal Hill books the same way a host with one does.
Send the address.
The quote comes back in two business hours.
Address, interior square footage, how many bedrooms, and the date the listing needs to go live. We shoot Baltimore City and the three counties around it, and the quote is a written number you can hold against the published rates.
