Fixed quotes. Published structure.
This is the whole schedule — every rate, every multiplier, every add-on. It is published so you can price your own project without talking to us first. Here's everything that drives the number, so nothing in your quote is a surprise.
$2,500
Every project includes the CAD floor plan (DWG), measured wall geometry (DXF), plotted drawings (PDF) and 3D walkthrough.
| Building size | Base price | Effective $/ft² |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 2,500 ft² | $2,500 | $1.00 and above |
| 2,500 – 5,000 ft² | $2,500 → $4,000 | $1.00 – 0.80 |
| 5,000 – 10,000 ft² | $4,000 → $6,500 | $0.80 – 0.65 |
| 10,000 – 25,000 ft² | $6,500 → $11,500 | $0.65 – 0.46 |
| 25,000 – 50,000 ft² | $11,500 → $19,000 | $0.46 – 0.38 |
| Above 50,000 ft² | from $19,000 | Quoted |
Most firms in this trade price in blocks, so a building one square foot over a boundary costs hundreds more than the one below it. That is a bad idea generally and a worse one here, because we are the party doing the measuring — nobody should have a financial reason to argue with the number our own product exists to establish.
So the price moves continuously with size. A 9,900 ft² building and a 10,100 ft² building are priced within a few dollars of each other. The estimate calculator computes any size exactly.
Complexity multipliers, quoted during scoping: heavy MEP / industrial +50% · historic or irregular geometry +75% · occupied space requiring after-hours or phased access +25% · each floor beyond two +15%.
| Add-on | Rate | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| $0.16/ft² | $450 | |
| $450 each | 2 facades | |
| $0.12/ft² | $350 | |
| $0.25/ft² | $2,500 | |
| $0.45/ft² | $4,500 | |
| Xactimate sketch (ESX)sample on request | $0.10/ft² | $250 |
| $250 | — | |
| Custom layer-standard remap | Quoted | Set once |
Roof plans and elevations are billed on the surface actually drawn, not on floor area. A three-story 30,000 ft² building has roughly 10,000 ft² of roof, and pricing it on floor area would have charged you for the other 20,000. Elevations are billed per facade because that is how they are drawn — most buildings need two to four.
Which level of development do you need?
LOD 200 — the standard model
Generalized elements at approximate size, shape and location, modeled from what we measured. Right for existing-conditions work, renovation planning, space studies and anything where the question is what is actually there. This is what iGUIDE produces and what most projects need.
LOD 300 — modeled to design intent
Specific assemblies with accurate size, shape, location and orientation, resolved against your standards rather than left generic. Right when the model feeds coordination, clash detection or a permit set. Slower and more expensive because a person makes decisions on every element — and worth it exactly when somebody downstream will build from it.
You commission the shoot, you get full rights to use the images — website, brochures, social, award submissions, trade press. There is no uplift for you.
The +30% applies only when a different firm wants their own rights to the same images. On a completed building the architect, general contractor, interior designer and product manufacturer often all want them. Each additional party pays 30% of the creative fee and receives full usage — which costs every firm far less than commissioning their own shoot, and means you are not asked to fund photography the whole project team benefits from.
We hold copyright, and we publish project imagery only with your written permission. If a site is confidential — a school, a healthcare facility, a secure building, anything in litigation — say so at scoping and nothing is published.
A separate schedule from residential real estate work, because the licensing is different. A brand, a builder or a manufacturer uses images across campaigns, trade collateral and multiple firms.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Half-day commercial shoot — 8–10 finished images, one location | $1,200 |
| Full-day commercial shoot — 12–15 finished images | $2,600 |
| Twilight / dusk session add-on | $600 |
| Drone add-onsample on request | $450 |
| Raw video capture, half day — unedited source filessample on request | $1,100 |
| Raw video capture, full daysample on request | $1,900 |
| Edited videosample on request | Quoted |
| Product & installation shoot, half day | from $1,800 |
| Additional licensing party | +30% of creative fee |
| Heavy retouch, compositing, object removal | $95 / image |
| Talent / people in frame | Custom quote |
| Package | Final images | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Half day — up to 4 hrs, one location | 8–10 | $1,200 |
| Full day | 12–15 | $2,600 |
| Additional selects beyond package | per image | $75 |
| Twilight session add-on | 4–6 twilight | $600 |
| Aerial add-on to a ground shoot | 8–12 aerials | $450 |
| Standalone half-day aerial | 15–25 aerials | $650 |
| Full-day aerial | 30–40 aerials | $1,400 |
| Raw video capture added to a shoot | 4K source files | $450 |
On video: on a photography day we deliver raw, unedited source files — color-managed and edit-ready — because most commercial clients already have an editor or an agency with a house style to match. Edited video is a separate product: build films and progress programs are delivered finished, from footage we flew to a plan. Edited films outside a program are quoted at scoping. The distinction, in full.
Curation is the service. A commercial set is 8–15 finished images, not 45. Your brochure uses twelve; delivering forty-five hands you the editing job and devalues every frame. Every image is fully finished and licensed — we don't ship contact sheets.
Cost sharing: on a completed building the architect, general contractor, interior designer and product manufacturer often want the same images. Licensing to multiple parties costs each firm less than commissioning alone.
| Program | Discount |
|---|---|
| 3–5 buildings, one engagement | −10% |
| 6–15 buildings | −15% |
| 16+ buildings or annual agreement | −20% |
| Committed progress-milestone schedule | −25% per visit |
| Turnaround | Uplift |
|---|---|
| Standard, 48–72 hrs | Included |
| Under 48 hrs | +35% |
| Under 24 hrs | +50% |
Phoenix included. National quoted.
| Zone | Distance from Gilbert | Charge |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 miles or less | Included |
| 2 | 35 – 100 miles | $250 |
| 3 | 100 – 300 miles, drive | $950 + $75/day |
| 4 | Fly-out, anywhere US | Travel recovery + 15% |
Minimum booked value of $3,500 per day on site, plus travel recovery. Travel days bill at 50% of day rate. Travel recovery covers flights, lodging, ground and per diem, quoted as a flat estimate agreed in advance.
Multi-site programs are quoted as a package — the more we capture per trip, the lower the cost per site. If you have eight locations across three states, tell us all eight.
Phoenix metro only. Priced as programs, not as visits.
A program is a committed schedule with a finished film at the end, billed monthly. The price is the program, because a single aerial visit is not the product — the eight that line up are.
| Program | Includes | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Milestone program — one home | 4 visits at pad, framing, dry-in, complete; comparison sets; short film | $3,900 |
| Build program — one home or building | Up to 8 monthly visits, comparison sets, archive, short film | $6,500 |
| Commercial site program | Up to 8 monthly visits, larger flight path, feature film | $9,500 |
| Additional visit, residential / commercial | One visit and comparison set | $750 / $1,100 |
| Portfolio program — 4 / 6 / 8 active sites | One route day a month, a gallery and short film per home | $1,900 / $2,400 / $3,000 mo |
| Pre-drywall capture for a home inside a program | Measured record, same visit | −15% vs one-off |
| Site camera, per viewpoint | Hardware, solar, cellular, hosting, monitoring, monthly check, time-lapse | $650 / mo |
| Site camera install and de-install | Per viewpoint | $750 |
| Film | Length | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Short film | Up to 90 s | $1,500 |
| Feature film | Up to 3 min | $2,500 |
| Long-form with interviews | 3–6 min | From $3,500 |
| Interim cut, mid-build | Up to 60 s | $750 |
| Vertical re-cut | 9:16 | $350 |
A standalone half-day aerial ($650, section 03) is credited in full against any program signed within 30 days of the flight. Programs and cameras are not in the estimate calculator, which prices measured capture by floor area. A program is priced by the schedule above; the film is released on the final program payment. Trade contractors wanting content for their own marketing are served by a separate retainer product — ask and we will point you to it.
What these rates buy
The base package is as-built drawings / existing conditions survey. Add-ons are priced separately: scan to BIM, Xactimate ESX sketch, BOMA rentable area. Travel is on the coverage and travel page, and what an as-built costs explains how the schedule was set.