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Listing Photo Guides for Short-Term Rental Hosts
Practical guides for hosts who want better listing photos — written from managing hundreds of apartments of our own.
Start with the guide you need
- How to shoot listing photos with your iPhone The six decisions — height, verticals, exposure, focus, angles, lens — that turn a phone into a listing camera.
- How to photograph your listing's amenities like a hotel would The lifestyle scenes hotels paid fortunes to stage — coffee moments, set tables, lit fireplaces — and what they earn.
- How lighting makes rooms look bigger — and beds look cleaner What research says about bright, white and clean — and the enhancement routine that uses it.
- What Superphoto does differently The 2026 AI photo market explained, and the five questions to ask any tool — including us.
- Selling or renting out your home? Your photos are the listing Buyer behaviour, price effects and why the view is part of the asking price.
- How to take better Airbnb photos with your phone Lighting, angles, a room-by-room shot list and the mistakes that quietly cost you bookings.
- Airbnb photo requirements and best practices Resolution, format, how many photos a listing needs and the order that shows your place at its best.
- How much does an Airbnb photographer cost? The three routes to listing photos compared — a professional shoot, Airbnb's own program, and doing it yourself.
- Booking.com photo requirements for hosts The 2048-pixel rule, photo counts, and what Booking.com asks you to avoid.
Why photos decide your bookings
Guests choose between listings on a screen, long before they read your description. Airbnb's own research compared more than 14,700 listings worldwide and found that listings using professional photography saw a 19% average uplift in bookings over the following year.
You don't need a professional photographer to apply the same essentials. A modern phone, the right moment of the day and a considered shot list get you most of the way — and Superphoto can take your originals from there, applying professional enhancement and organising everything into a guest-ready gallery you can share in one link.