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Taking photos that write good pages
The writer can only say what it can see. Give it something to see.
The simple rules
- Two minimum, five is the sweet spot. Below your account's minimum, the job holds automatically.
- Step back for one wide shot. The full house, the whole kitchen, the entire roofline — the hero photo usually comes from this one.
- Get close for one detail shot. The trim line, the hardware, the shingle texture — details are what the write-up brags about.
- Daylight beats dusk. Phone cameras are great now; shadows still aren't.
- Finished beats in-progress — unless the before/after IS the story, in which case send both and say so.
What not to worry about
- Order — attach them in any order; the layout sorts itself.
- Carrier splitting — if your photos send as separate messages, they still count as one job.
- Perfection — a real photo of real work beats a staged one every time. That's the whole point.
Privacy is handled for you
For home services: the published page names the town, never the customer's street
address — and the GPS location your phone embeds in photos is stripped before anything goes
online. You can text from the customer's driveway without putting their house on the internet.
For real estate: it's the opposite on purpose — the listing address you text is used
exactly as written, because that's what a listing is. Double-check the address before you hit send;
the system quotes you faithfully, typos included.
What the writer does with them
Every photo gets read — siding profiles, window styles, countertop materials, landscaping. What it recognizes becomes copy it's allowed to write. What it can't see, it won't claim. So if you're proud of something, photograph it.