Cineminn Media Co real estate photography

For Lakes Sotheby's International Realty Agents

Real Estate
Photography for
Lakes Sotheby's International Realty.

Cineminn Media Co. is the preferred photography partner for Lakes Sotheby's International Realty agents across Minneapolis–St. Paul. Same-day scheduling, 9 AM next-day delivery, Blue Sky Guarantee. Individual bookings or brokerage-wide Partners program.

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5.0 from 523 Twin Cities agents
9 AM next-day delivery
Blue Sky Guarantee

1,500+

Homes photographed

$500M+

Listings represented

5.0 / 523

Agent reviews

9 AM

Next-day delivery

About the partnership

Why Lakes Sotheby's International Realty agents choose Cineminn.

Lakes Sotheby's International Realty agents in the Twin Cities are known for white-glove luxury listings across Lake Minnetonka, the North Shore, and the Twin Cities estate market. That level of work deserves photography that matches it — and deadlines that don't slip.

Cineminn has photographed over 1,500 homes across Minneapolis–St. Paul, representing $500M+ in listing value, with a 5.0 average rating from 523 agents. Every shoot is founder-led or delivered by a vetted staff photographer. Every image hits the MLS by 9 AM the next business day.

For Lakes Sotheby's International Realty brokerage owners with 60+ producing agents, we offer the Cineminn Partners Enterprise program: MFN pricing, Cineminn-Managed Floor capacity, quarterly business reviews, and a single invoice for the entire office.

What we shoot

Full-spectrum media for every listing.

HDR Photography

Magazine-grade interiors

Drone & Aerial

FAA Part 107 licensed

Matterport 3D

Immersive virtual tours

Video Walkthroughs

Social-ready cinematic

Virtual Staging

Vacant-home fix

Floor Plans

2D + 3D schematic

Virtual Twilight

Golden-hour magic

Property Websites

Single-property URLs

For individual Lakes Sotheby's International Realty agents

Book directly.

Pick a service, pick a slot, pay only for what you shoot. Standard 9 AM next-day delivery on every shoot. Blue Sky Guarantee on every listing.

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For Lakes Sotheby's International Realty leadership

Partners Enterprise.

Make Cineminn the preferred photography vendor brokerage-wide. MFN pricing. Cineminn-Managed Floor. QBRs. One invoice. Founder-led discovery call, 20 minutes.

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Questions

The short answers

We're a preferred independent vendor for many Lakes Sotheby's International Realty agents in the Twin Cities. For brokerage-wide formalized partnerships with MFN pricing and a Cineminn-Managed Floor, we encourage brokerage leadership to schedule a founder-led discovery call.

Either. Individual agents book a-la-carte at standard rates. Teams and brokerages get Partners pricing on commitment.

For most of the Twin Cities metro, next-day shoots are available 6 days a week with 24-hour notice. Partners get priority windows.

If weather on a scheduled exterior shoot day is unusable, we reshoot at no charge within 48 hours. Same for drone shoots canceled by FAA conditions.

Lakes Sotheby’s International Realty

Lake Minnetonka has its own visual economy.

The Lake Minnetonka waterfront market doesn’t behave like the rest of the metro. It has its own buyer pool — regional and national, often from Chicago, Dallas, and the West Coast. Its own seasonality — peak listings hit in March through May for summer-season closes. Its own price compression: a $4M waterfront teardown can sit for 90 days; the right $4M waterfront with the right photos closes in 14.

If you’re a Lakes Sotheby’s agent, you already know this. The question is whether your listing photos reflect it.

The lake is harder to shoot than people think.

Lake Minnetonka waterfront photography is a genuinely hard problem. Most photographers fail at it because they don’t fly waterfront enough to learn what it actually needs:

  • Polarizer is required on every south-facing exterior to kill the lake reflection that flattens water in midday light.
  • LAANC clearance is required for the airspace south of MSP. An expired Part 107 doesn’t fly the corridor.
  • Real twilight matters more here than anywhere else. Water becomes the hero at blue hour in a way it never is at noon. We schedule the photographer’s day around the sunset window, not the other way around.
  • Boat slip, dock, boathouse are part of the listing, not afterthoughts. We shoot them as deliberately as the kitchen.
  • Aerial reveals work as pull-back-to-show-shoreline-context, not as straight-overhead lot shots. Lakes Sotheby’s buyers want to see the relationship between house and water, not the property line on a parcel map.

Our 2025 Lake Minnetonka volume.

Roughly six to eight Lake Minnetonka waterfront listings per month at $1.5M+. Most-shot zips: 55391 (Wayzata), 55331 (Excelsior), and 55375 (Mound).

The shoot template for that price tier is locked: Platinum kit, real twilight, extended drone B-roll, full Matterport including outdoor amenity spaces, founder-led shoot day for $3M+.

Sotheby’s brand standards pass through QC by default.

Sotheby’s International brand assets demand editorial photography. We shoot to that bar without being asked:

  • · Neutral grading. No over-stylized editing.
  • · Architectural detail frames in 8–10 per shoot.
  • · Vertical cuts of every hero frame for the Sotheby’s app.
  • · Magazine-grade composition — symmetry leveled in-camera.

Your brand-compliance team won’t kick anything back.

From the founder

The right photo of a Lake Minnetonka listing tells the buyer something they can’t get from the spec sheet — what summer evenings actually look like off your dock. That’s a craft we’ve spent five years calibrating. It’s the thing your seller will remember about working with you.

— Julian Lundgren, founder

Lakes Sotheby’s questions.

Do you shoot the Lake Minnetonka waterfront properly?

It’s our primary luxury market. LAANC drone clearance, polarizer for water glare, real twilight as standard, dock and slip detail shots, pull-back aerial reveals. Most Twin Cities photographers don’t fly the lake; we built the capability around it.

Can I bring Cineminn to a $5M+ off-market listing?

Founder-led, NDA-friendly, scheduled at the seller’s convenience. We’ve shot off-market estate listings under signed confidentiality. The shoot is the same; the public deployment is your decision.

What’s the standard package on a $3M+ Sotheby’s listing?

Platinum ($949) with real twilight ($129) and cinematic property tour with voiceover ($299). Total $1,377. Founder-led shoot day. The math against a single-percent list-price-protection move is an order of magnitude in your favor.

Your next listing deserves better

Work with the photographer Twin Cities agents rate 5.0 on 523 reviews.

Book a shoot as an individual Lakes Sotheby's International Realty agent, or schedule a 20-minute founder-led call about bringing Cineminn Partners to your office.

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Where Lakes Sotheby's agents shoot most

Wayzata · Orono · Excelsior · Edina · Minneapolis