Photos

Choose the type of work first, then take or pick the photo.

Before you shoot

• Daylight, flash off.
• Wipe the lens first.
• Phone sideways, and hold still.
• No faces, no house numbers, no mess in the frame.

• The whole room from a corner, then one wall straight on.
• One close-up of a cut line: wall to ceiling, or along the trim.
• Daylight, flash off, and the window to your side, not behind the wall.
• Furniture back in place and the floor clear before you shoot.

• The whole house from across the street, phone sideways.
• Each side you painted, straight on, from the same distance.
• Before and after from the very same spot, pointing the same way.
• No house number, no car plate, no ladder left in the frame.

• Before and after from the very same spot: that is the whole photo.
• The full driveway or walkway, standing at one end.
• Wait until the surface is dry; wet concrete looks darker than it is.
• One shot half-way through: the clean part next to the dirty part.

• The damage close up, BEFORE you touch it.
• The patch after paint, from the same spot: a good repair disappears.
• Light from the side, so the wall shows flat and smooth.
• Step back once more so the whole wall is in the picture.

• The whole deck from the yard, low, with the boards running away from you.
• One close-up of the boards and one of a railing, after the stain has dried.
• Before and after from the same spot, in the same light.
• Furniture and planters off the deck before you shoot.

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