Four pricing tracks: residential listings on a published square-footage ladder, commercial and venue work quoted per project off a published starting menu, and production on a day rate. No surprise add-ons on the invoice.
Four ways we price, because a listing, a building, a venue, and a campaign are four different jobs. Every number below is published, including the work we quote per project.
Starting prices reflect listings under 2,000 sqft. See the full square-footage table for every tier. High-volume agents: ask about monthly retainers.
Pick a package, find your square footage. The price you see here is the price you pay at booking. Every tier is published, Photo through Elite, with no “contact for quote” anywhere on the table. Something unusual about the property? Text us.
Elite (cinematic video, extended aerials, on-site creative direction) is a second shoot on a camera and gimbal, which is why it steps above Standard at every size. Add-ons (extra aerials, virtual twilights, ANSI / GLA floor plan, virtual staging, declutter, coming-soon teaser) are à la carte on top of any package.
Add at booking, or after the shoot. Delivered with the rest of the media in the same 24-hour window. Revisions to existing files run on a 5-day window. Commercial add-ons are folded into the project quote instead.
8–12 edited HDR aerials of the property and grounds. Add to Photo or Drone Tour to round out exterior coverage.
Daytime exterior re-rendered as a warm dusk shot. Per image. Ready in the same 24-hour window.
CubiCasa-certified ANSI Z765-2021 measurement report, MLS-suitable for the listed gross living area.
Empty rooms furnished digitally, or cluttered rooms cleaned up. Pillows, mail, cords, kid stuff removed without a re-shoot. Per room, either direction.
5 exterior photos plus a virtual twilight, delivered ahead of go-live for social, SMS, and pre-launch email blasts.
Photo set of the neighborhood: coffee shops, parks, school exteriors, the things buyers Google after. Tagged to the listing.
If you're shooting 4 or more listings a month, the monthly retainer takes a flat 15% off every package (Photo, Drone Tour, Standard, Elite) plus priority scheduling and one consolidated invoice. No minimum term.
Every commercial job is scoped individually, square footage, interior vs exterior mix, edit depth, and timeline all move the number. These are the honest floors each line starts from, not a bait rate.
FAA Part 107 certified · $1M liability insured · Certificate of insurance with additional insured endorsement, usually same-day.
Same menu above, whatever the property is. Your vertical does not change the rate, your scope does.
Multi-floor exterior coverage, parking and access context, neighborhood positioning for capital marketing.
Frontage, loading, clear-height interiors, and the surrounding trade area a tenant is actually buying.
FPV through the room at service pace, exterior aerials, and HDR stills. Shot pre-open or around covers.
Rooms, grounds, pool decks, and amenity spaces for booking pages, OTA listings, and brand campaigns.
Offices, studios, showrooms, and facilities. The flythrough that shows what it is like to walk in the door.
Monthly or bi-weekly frame-registered progress capture across the build, priced by cadence and duration.
Not listed? Send the scope anyway. If we can fly it, we quote it in 24 hours.
Digital enquiries convert far below the couple who actually walks the property, so the job of venue media is to turn a browser into a booked tour. An FPV walkthrough is the closest thing to standing in the room. Priced above a single commercial property because a venue is every event space, not one.
Commercials, music videos, branded content, and automotive. Three tiers, set by the rig and the camera body the shoot needs. Travel inside the Charlotte metro and same-day OCN handoff are included at every tier.
Prosumer FPV kit, Log 4K. Commercials where FPV is one unit of many, branded content, fast-turn music videos.
12-bit BRAW, native 4K sensor. Broadcast-acceptable cinema look with a proper grading color space.
R3D workflow, ProRes proxies, on-set data wrangler. Flagship brand films and theatrical delivery.
For a home, it depends on square footage and what you need shot. Photos start at $295, an FPV drone tour at $395, the two together with aerials, a floor plan, and a 3D tour at $595, and the cinematic Elite package at $995. Each scales up the square-footage ladder above, and every rate at every size is published on this page. Commercial work starts at $400 for ground or aerial stills, $600 for an FPV walkthrough, and $1,000 for all three. Venues start at $1,200. Production runs $1,750 per day.
Per project, never hourly. An hourly rate punishes you for a property that needs a second pass and tells you nothing before the invoice arrives. Residential is a flat rate off the published square-footage ladder, so a 3,400 sqft listing costs the same whoever shoots it and whatever the weather does. Commercial and venue work is quoted per project off a published starting menu. Production is the one exception and runs as a day rate, which is how the rest of a film crew is booked.
Most Charlotte operators quote $250 to $500 for a basic aerial photo set and $500 to $900 once video is involved, and most of them do not publish it, so you find out after the call. Our rates sit inside that band and are on this page instead. The place the math changes is bundling: hiring a photographer, a drone operator, and a floor plan vendor separately for one listing typically runs around $789, versus $595 for the same deliverables in the Standard package.
Photo includes HDR interior + exterior stills, a 2D floor plan from a CubiCasa scan, and an interactive 3D tour. Drone Tour is a solo FPV indoor flythrough with both the MLS cut and a vertical Reels version. Standard combines both: FPV tour, photos, exterior aerials, floor plan, 3D tour, and 2 virtual twilights. Elite adds a cinematic property video with licensed music, extended aerial sequences, and on-site creative direction. It is a second shoot on a camera and gimbal, not a recut of the drone tour, and there is a side-by-side of the two on /residential. Every package delivers in 24 hours.
Every package is priced by the square-footage range of the listing: Under 2k, 2–3k, 3–4k, 4–5k, 5–6k, 6–7k, and 7k+. The full ladder is in the table above and is also what you see at booking. Listings larger than 7,000 sqft are quoted directly so the scope matches the property.
Yes. The standard floor plan included with Photo and Standard is a marketing visualization that includes every room and area we can scan, including non-living spaces. The ANSI / GLA add-on ($125) is a separate, certified report produced to the ANSI Z765-2021 standard and is suitable for the MLS gross living area field.
A typical Charlotte three-vendor stack runs about $789 (photographer ~$189 + drone op ~$250 + videographer ~$350). The Standard package at $595 covers all of that plus the FPV indoor flythrough, an interactive 3D tour, and a custom property website that none of the three traditional vendors usually include. The per-tier "replaces ~$X" microcopy under each card above shows the line-item math.
No. Commercial, venue, and production work are scoped individually. Location, interior vs exterior mix, deliverables, and timeline vary too much for a fixed tier. What is published is where each line starts: ground / interior photography from $400, standalone aerial photography with a commercial license from $400, an FPV walkthrough from $600, and the full package with all three from $1,000. Venues run on their own two-part structure: showcase from $1,200 and event-day coverage from $1,750, because a venue is every event space rather than a single property. Send scope, receive a quote and proposed shoot date within 24 hours.
No. Lockbox, CentralShowing code, or a simple key handoff works. Most residential shoots happen without the agent on-site. Property is left exactly as we found it.
Two rounds included on every package: shot selection, music swap, pacing adjustments, and small re-edits. Additional rounds $95/hr. Revision window is 5 days from delivery.
We reschedule at no cost for rain, sustained high winds, or low visibility. You'll hear from us the evening before if conditions look marginal. No fee for weather-related moves.
$1M liability policy. FAA Part 107 certified pilots. Certificate of insurance with additional insured endorsement available on request, usually same-day.
You receive a non-exclusive license to use every deliverable on MLS, your brokerage or business website, your social media, paid advertising, and printed marketing for the specific listing it was produced for. OSDT retains copyright and the right to show work in our portfolio. Full terms on the /terms page.
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Updated May 2026 · Pricing reviewed each month against current Charlotte vendor rates.