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What Does Architectural Photography Cost

EUR 1,500 to 8,000 per project.

That is the range for professional architectural photography with scouting, directed production, custom post-production, and delivery in all required formats. A half-day exterior session of a single building sits at one end. A multi-day hospitality campaign across two properties with aerial, lifestyle styling, and 80+ deliverables sits at the other. The variation is not arbitrary. It reflects what the production actually requires.

Scope decides the price

Not the building. Not the location. The scope. A single exterior session might be half a day. A project like our Premium Resorts work covered two luxury villas across two Finnish regions over multiple production days. The number of spaces, the number of final images, whether aerial or lifestyle styling is involved, and how many light windows the production needs to hit. These are what move a project from one end of the range to the other.

What separates the low end from the high end

Blue hour scheduling. That alone adds a production day to most projects because you cannot shoot interiors and exteriors at blue hour on the same evening. Custom lighting for every composition instead of one setup moved between rooms. Aerial production with a licensed crew. Lifestyle styling with placed objects, textiles, and atmosphere. Individual colour grading per image instead of batch processing. Each of these costs time, and time is where the number lives.

What is included at every level

Site assessment and shot list before production day. Directed shooting with professional lighting. Raw selection, retouching, perspective correction, and custom colour grading. High-resolution masters plus web and platform-specific exports, named and organised for immediate use. Licensing covers your channels: website, social, print, OTA listings. Extended licensing for third-party use is quoted separately.

See the production standard in our Premium Resorts project.

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