Thoughts on these professional photos please.

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We've just put our house on the market having just finished renovating it. The estate agent advised us to have a company come and take the photos for the brochure which we did and paid for.
I cant shake the feeling that they're just a little underwhelming. The estate agent has suggested we take some more 'lifestyle' photos that they could add to the listing but ive realised I'm no photographer and they just look a little crap!

Do you think it would be worth getting the photographer back or am I overthinking it and the photos are fine?
Here's the listing: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137062946#/?channel=RES_BUY

Agree its a lovely house but I'd not be happy with those photos. Especially if you paid extra for them.

They look pretty standard pics to me, taken with a wide angle lens that distorts the image...but pretty common.
I don't think it comes across as suggesting a lifestyle. I'd guess no-one is actually living in it at the moment. Maybe a few personal touches might help generate interest but I'd say that was more about the staging than the photography.

Photos look like they are cutting out half the rooms unfortunately. For a house that price and size definitely more photos needed!!

The photos aren't the worst I've seen but the staging doesn't look right. Clear the dining table as with all the bottles it looks a bit messy and remove the leather dining chair from the living room (as well as the odd pig) put a few knick knacks away as there's a fair amount of stuff which just looks a bit too much x

Lots of odd angles, some rooms look really gloomy (the green room), there’s no flow, it looks clumsily staged and too cluttered to be minimalist yet too stark to be cosy.

You’ve got a big plot but the photos make it look tiny. You need some aerial pictures to show how big it is. Your grounds sound lovely but you can’t see them.

Looking at the brochure, Southampton is to the east, not the west. How did they get that so wrong?

And surely your fridge is Fisher and Paykel not Fischer and Paytel?

Weird paragraph spacing on the brochure too.

it all looks so bleak in the photos.

That. It's all grey and hard surfaces. There's nothing remotely warm, homely or welcoming about it. The house needs 'dressing' with homely stuff, warm fabrics and cushions, and made to look lived in and, for want of a better word, happy.

I can't imagine smiling and hugging my kids in that house, from looking at the photographs. It looks depressing. Sorry. If you've emptied it of the cheerful stuff, put it back for the next photos.

lovely home but agree the photos are terrible. It’s a 5 bed house yet there’s only pictures of 2 bedrooms.
The living room pictures of the back of a sofa looks awful.
The outside photos are not great either.
If the EA took them that would explain why they are shite but professional paid for ones I’d expect a lot better.

@JudgeRudy we do live in it and it's not bare at all in real life! I dont understand why it looks like this in the photos.

I actually thought it looked a bit blank and lacking character.

Anyway OP, personally I think (nb. I can't afford your property!) more variety of photos would be better. What are the bedrooms like? What are the views out of the upstairs windows? Have you got some prettier garden pictures now it's summer? I would open some of the doors and take pics out as the lattice windows get a bit tiring.

This is my personal opinion -

Have the photos exclude those awful Lantern roof things. The decor is fairly neutral and then BAM you're hit with that ghastly green room. Paint that neutral to fit in with the rest of the house and do the same with the navy bathroom.

Gardens/grounds are lovely.

The writing on the gate is not all that clear. Is it something Lodge or Badger 🤔

I think the green of the green room is a gorgeous colour. But the picture of the room is not very convincing and manages to somehow look really awkward - again, largely angles and lighting.

My thoughts are the photo's are not taking to make the most of the room/space to the best advantage. It does look like random pieces of furniture just placed rather the what the room is.

Also the it looks like a 'house' rather then a 'home' it doesn't seem to have any personality.

And the way the photo's are shown on Rightmove are not in order as you would walk through so you cannot get a feel for the house.

I would have both the photo's and the Rightmove advert redone as neither are showing your beautiful house to it's best.

@ArabeIIaScott that's my favourite room! It's one of those rooms that just hugs you when you go in. It is an odd shaped room so maybe that one is a tad hard to photograph.
@Jongleterre interesting that you mention the coloured rooms as a negative. Its only ever been commented on favourably by visitors-and some of my friends are brutal! Just shows how badly these photos are portraying the house I suppose.
@MerryMarigold we have the most gorgeous views! Our bedroom balcony overlooks a deer field!

They've used a wide angle or something and it has made the rooms look odd. And the living room featuring the back of a suda? Weird.
I didn't pay for photos EVER. And I've sold properties from £100k to over £2m. No upfront costs.
Aside from that, it does look pretty soulless. No art (just one or two pieces way too small for the wall they are on), no personality. It's one thing depersonalising, but it's too stepped of anything.
I did you look at the photographers work before you hired them? I'm not sure getting the same ones back will help if this is their style. But I don't think you should be paying - the agents fee at that price point should cover it.

Beautiful house but the photos don't do it justice at all
The angles are wrong and actually don't give a sense of the size of the rooms
I'd expect to see a video tour on the listing too

Photos are shit.
They make the rooms all look like they are weirdly long but with a low ceiling - everything looks like crawling through a tunnel, high on LSD.

Oh no Darling, you're going to have trouble shifting that! Looking at street view you have a random horse wandering up the road, and a car park of some kind opposite! Very working class!

@SabrinaThwaite I missed all of those points- thank you! I think the list to the estate agent may be rather long.
@mondaytosunday it hasn't been de-personalised, the photographer just seems to have taken photos of any bare wall he can find! And you're right, any pictures he has got in frame, look tiny! It was just the photographer recommended by the EA but having seem some work that other photographers have done from the same company, I think we just got unlucky.

@huntingcunting , that has amused me greatly- I shall be quoting you directly when I speak to the EA!

@ilovepixie don't take it out on the poor old new forest pony!

ahem I think you'll find, darling, that the ancient New Forest custom of Commoning (i.e., livestock allowed to roam free) is one of the highlights of this quintessential English village. On a good day you get cows, ponies, donkeys and pigs.

You have a bedroom balcony- why isn’t there a picture of it? And the garage, and more of the gardens, and the other bedrooms, and and and

At that price of house (and therefore commission) the EA should be providing a proper photographer as standard, not charging extra. Our EA sent a photographer / staging team for a house a third of that price (London).

The pics are TOO lifestyle-y. No decent picture of the kitchen functions. Arty pic of the corner of the bathroom but not the bath / shower. The pictures need to give the full sweep and shape of the rooms. Apart from the long view of the narrow rooms (making them look like railway carriages) the photos all but off the full view of the room.

In the end though, people look at the general layout and size and style, I am sure the photos will be fine to sell your house. Good luck.

Do you really honestly? Sounds lovely.