STR Essentials
$500starting at
Listing-grade photos you own for the life of the rental — no relicensing fees, ever.
- Premium, detail & drone photos
- Light staging
- Lifetime usage rights
- Virtual fire replacement
Short-Term Rentals
Photos that raise the nightly rate.
Airbnb and Vrbo media for Gulf Coast rentals — shot once, licensed to you for life.
Real twilight — client work, Knoxville, TN market. Now based in Sarasota.
Why STR media is different
Built for bookings, not closings
A listing photo sells a house once. Rental media works every night the calendar is open — so it's licensed, staged, and shot differently.
Lifetime usage rights
MLS licensing covers one listing, then it expires. STR media is licensed to you for the life of the property — rebrand, relist, re-platform, run ads. No relicensing fees, ever.
Light staging included
Straightening, decluttering, and styling with what the home already has — pillows squared, counters cleared, throws placed. Honest scope: it is not a furniture truck, and if a space needs full staging I will say so before the shoot.
Guest-focused detail shots
Guests filter by amenity — coffee bar, fire pit, workspace, the view from the porch swing. Detail frames are shot to match the amenity keywords your listing competes on.
And the payoff is measured, not assumed — Airbnb's own study of 14,700 listings found professionally photographed homes earn 19% more bookings and 21% higher earnings, worked through host by host in the data on whether pro photos increase Airbnb bookings.
Real STR work
One cabin, shot for the calendar
A Smoky Mountains cabin, delivered amenity-first — every frame below maps to a filter guests actually search: fireplace, game room, hot tub, the view.
Real client work — Smoky Mountains cabin rental, Knoxville, TN market. Now based in Sarasota.
The golden hour
Guests book the evening they can already feel.
Illustrative scene imagery, studio-created — every frame in the portfolio is real client work.
STR packages
Two packages, one standard
Starting prices — bedroom count and property size set the final quote, shown before you confirm a booking.
STR Pro
$800starting at
Essentials, plus real twilight shot on-site at dusk and a property website.
- Everything in Essentials
- Real-twilight photos
- Property website
Hosting beyond the Sarasota area? How Gulf, Atlantic and inland rentals photograph differently — and the travel policy for booking a shoot anywhere in the state — is laid out in our Florida vacation-rental photography guide.
The twilight frame
Twilight earns the click
The dusk shot is the scroll-stopper on every booking platform — warm windows against a deepening sky reads as a night a guest wants.
Real twilight vs. virtual twilight — straight answer
Real twilight (included in STR Pro) is photographed on location in the twenty minutes after sunset — interior lights on, sky doing the work. It costs more because it is its own visit at a specific time of day.
Virtual twilight is a daytime exposure edited into a dusk scene. It photographs well and it is honest work — but it is an edit, it is always disclosed as one, and a trained eye can tell. For a rental competing on first impressions, the real thing is worth the visit.
Included in STR Essentials
Virtual fire replacement, explained
An unlit firebox photographs as a black hole in an otherwise warm room. Virtual fire replacement composites a realistic fire into your fireplace in post-production.
It is an edit, and it is treated like one: applied only to fireplaces that actually work, and disclosed to you in the delivery notes. Guests get the feeling the room really delivers on a December night — nobody gets sold a fireplace that doesn't exist.
Licensing, in one sentence
You own these for the life of the listing. Rebrand, relist, re-platform — no relicensing fees.
The plain-language breakdown of what each license covers lives on the licensing page.
Ready when you are
Give the calendar a better salesperson.
Shot once, licensed for life — and the exact quote shows before you confirm.