Real estate photography in Durban.

You typically receive between 20 and 40 fully edited images, and the exact count depends on the package you choose and the size of the property. A compact Umhlanga apartment naturally yields fewer usable angles than a multi-wing Ballito or Zimbali estate home with established gardens, so we scale the delivery to the property rather than forcing a fixed number. On the shoot we capture every usable angle — every room, the key exterior elevations, the ocean view, and the features that make the listing distinctive — then curate down to the strongest, cleanest frames so your gallery has no weak filler images. Every delivered photo is colour-graded and supplied web-ready for portals like Property24 and Private Property as well as print-ready for brochures and window cards.

Standard delivery is within 24 hours of the shoot. In practice that means an Umhlanga property photographed in the morning is usually back in your inbox, edited and graded, by the following morning — fast enough to launch a listing the next day without losing momentum. Images arrive as a download-ready link with both web-optimised and print-resolution sizes included, so you can post to portals and social channels and send files to print in the same session. If you are working to a tighter deadline — a show day, a portal cut-off, or a seller expecting the listing live immediately — rush same-day delivery is available at a 30% surcharge, confirmed in your quote. Twilight and video add-ons may add a few hours to the editing window.

East-coast morning light is the gift here, so we shoot ocean-facing homes in Umhlanga, La Lucia and along the North Coast between roughly 6am and 9am, when the sun is behind the camera and the view renders cleanest. The subtropical climate matters too: summer humidity throws a soft haze over the horizon and fogs cool glass, while winter, from about May to September, delivers sharper horizons and crisper interior light. We balance the bright sea against the room in every frame so the view and the interior both read properly, and we plan the shoot window around the tide and the haze. For holiday lets, a twilight frame of the balcony or pool deck is the single strongest image in the gallery.

We photograph listings right across Durban and the KZN North Coast — Umhlanga, La Lucia, the Pearls and Izinga Ridge, Ballito, Zimbali, Salt Rock and Sibaya, Durban North (Umgeni Park, Glen Hills, Prestondale), and the Berea and Morningside character suburbs of Musgrave and Glenwood. Travel within the greater Durban metro and up the North Coast is generally included in the standard quote. For listings further afield — the South Coast around Shelly Beach, or the KZN Midlands towns of Howick and Hilton — we simply factor any travel into the quote up front, with clear line items. Tell us the suburb and we will confirm coverage and pricing within 24 hours.

You do not need to be on site. Most agents simply arrange access through a lockbox, the homeowner, the estate gate-house or a building manager, and we handle the shoot independently — confirming the priority spaces and any styling notes with you beforehand. If you would prefer to attend, to brief us in person or manage the seller, you are very welcome to. Either way works equally well.