Real estate photography · Garden Route
The Garden Route is not one market, it is four or five sitting along the same road, and we shoot the whole corridor on one run. Mossel Bay, George, Knysna and Plettenberg Bay, plus everything between. Delivered in 24 hours, quoted on request.
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Real estate photography is professional listing photography that presents a home at its best so it sells or rents faster. The Garden Route is treated as one place by tourists and as four or five quite different markets by anyone who sells property on it. Mossel Bay is accessible coastal stock and holiday letting. George is a working town with families, schools and smallholdings. Knysna sells the lagoon and the outlook, with real depth at the top end. Plettenberg Bay is second homes and a December calendar. We run the corridor west from our base in St Francis Bay, which means an agency with mandates in more than one town can have them shot on the same trip, with one consistent look across the whole portal listing set. DV Media shoots the whole corridor for agents, developers and owners marketing on Property24, Private Property and agency sites.
What's included
Flattering vertical-true lines. Windows balanced to avoid blown highlights. Lights warmed to match the home.
The image that leads the listing. Shot at the best time of day for light and sky.
Consistent tones across every image. Clean, natural, true-to-the-home.
When the weather doesn't cooperate, we replace overcast skies with natural-looking alternatives.
All images delivered via a download-ready link. Web-ready and print-ready sizes included.
Perpetual, non-exclusive licence for the listing marketing, agency website and social channels.
On the ground
We work the corridor rather than treating each town as a separate expedition. Listings in Mossel Bay, George, Knysna and Plett can be shot on a single trip, which keeps the travel line in your quote down and gets the whole set onto the portal together.
Mossel Bay and Hartenbos, George, Herolds Bay and Wilderness, Sedgefield, Knysna, and Plettenberg Bay through to Nature’s Valley. Town pages for each are linked in the footer under areas we shoot.
Accessible coastal stock in Mossel Bay, family and estate homes in George, lagoon and view property in Knysna, second homes and beachfront in Plett. The standard stays the same, what each listing needs to prove does not.
Recent listings
A sample of recent listing work from across our coverage — coastal, estate and family homes. Full portfolio →
Marketing is what moves property. We’ve photographed listings across the Garden Route, the Eastern and Western Cape and into the Karoo — and we bring the same magazine-quality standard to every one, whatever the town.
Towns we cover
Pick your town for what the market looks like there and how we work it — and we cover the smaller centres in between, Wilderness and Sedgefield included.
The gateway to the route — holiday, retirement and family homes across an accessible price range.
The Garden Route's commercial hub — golf-estate living, family suburbs and new developments.
Lagoon, forest and estate living — waterfront homes, holiday properties and retirement.
One of the country's premier coastal holiday towns — luxury and beachfront homes.
Reviews
“Kyle is the best in the business. He is able to grasp what you want and need — even if you don’t know yourself. The quality of his work is excellent. It has made a huge impact on our business and beyond that, we enjoy working with him.”
“I recently worked with Kyle on five video ads for my marketing agency in the Netherlands. Kyle’s creativity, humor, and professionalism made the entire process enjoyable and seamless. The final videos were both visually impressive and highly effective for marketing purposes. I couldn’t be happier with the results and look forward to working with Kyle again. Highly recommended!”
“I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with Juan Bezuidenhout and Kyle de Villiers from DV Media on all of the homes I market and sell. Their work is consistently outstanding — from the quality of the photos to the way each property is brought to life on video. They have an incredible eye for detail and always manage to showcase every home in the best possible light. The entire process is seamless, and I know I can trust them to produce top-quality results every single time.”
Our process
You send property details and target launch date. We recommend a package and send a quote within 24 hours.
We confirm the shoot window, access, and priority spaces to cover. Any add-ons (twilight, video, aerials) locked in.
90 minutes on average for a mid-sized home. Longer for multi-wing properties. Exterior, interior and any add-on coverage handled in the same window.
Edited, graded images in your inbox within 24 hours via a download-ready link.
Pricing
Packages are scoped around the property — size, location and deliverables. For pricing, send an enquiry now and we'll come back within 24 hours with a tailored quote.
FAQ
The full corridor. Mossel Bay and Hartenbos at the western end, George with Herolds Bay and Wilderness, Sedgefield, Knysna, and Plettenberg Bay through towards Nature’s Valley. Each town has its own page with the suburbs and estates we work in. If your listing is somewhere between those, tell us the address and we will confirm coverage within 24 hours.
Yes, and it is the sensible way to use us here. We run the corridor west from St Francis Bay rather than treating each town as a separate trip, so an agency with mandates in Knysna and Plett, or George and Mossel Bay, can have them all shot on the same run. It keeps the travel line in your quote down and it means the whole set lands on the portal with one consistent look.
For an ordinary week, a few days is usually enough to get a good slot. For the December season, book much earlier. Everything that wants to be live before the holidays is chasing the same few weeks, and that is also when the weather along the coast is least predictable. If you know mandates are coming, hold the date rather than waiting for the sellers to be ready.
Travel is itemised as a clear line in your quote rather than being folded into the package price. Where several listings are shot on the same run, that cost is shared across them rather than charged again for each stop, which is why grouping bookings is worth doing, even across different agents in the same office. Send us the addresses and we will show you the difference in the quote.
Yes, and it is our busiest stretch on this corridor. The caution is simply that slots go early and the weather is less reliable, so exteriors sometimes have to be moved within the day. Sky replacement is included as standard for the days that will not clear, and twilight is available as an add-on for the hero frame, which is often what a holiday listing is missing.
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Get a quote back in 24 hours. Listings in more than one town can go on the same run.
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