The shot guide.

The reconstruction reads light literally. A dim room with the blinds half-drawn becomes a dim splat with the blinds half-drawn. It doesn't fix ambience; it captures it.

Turn on every lamp — including the ones you'd normally leave off in the daytime. Match the blinds height across the whole home so exterior light reads the same across rooms. The single fastest thing that separates a good tour from a re-shoot is inconsistent light between rooms.

Film like you're showing the home to someone nervous. No cuts. No jogging between rooms. No pauses to reposition. The reconstruction stitches your walk into geometry — if the camera skips, the geometry skips.

A good walk feels almost unbearably slow when you're doing it. That's how you know it's right. Half the re-shoots we send back are from agents who tried to be efficient with their time.

Re-enter each room from a second angle. Overlap is what the geometry is built from — the more angles per surface, the sharper the walls come back, the fewer soft spots in the render.

A rule of thumb: film every room from two doorways, even if that means walking a small loop that feels redundant. It's not redundant. The second angle is what makes the first one work.

Under 60 seconds fails — not enough frames to reconstruct. Longer than five minutes adds nothing — the extra angles are redundant and only slow the upload.

For a three-bedroom home, aim for three minutes. For a one-bedroom, two minutes is plenty. If you're going over four, you're walking too slowly or you're pausing when you shouldn't be.

Landscape orientation gives us a wider frame and a better reconstruction. Portrait works, but it leaves less room on the sides of every wall.

Wipe the phone lens on your shirt before you start. Pick 4K if your phone offers it in the camera settings — 1080p works, but 4K gives sharper surfaces in the final tour. Default frame-rate (30 fps) is fine; higher isn't better here.