St. Paul real estate photography by 9 AM tomorrow.
Or the shoot is free.
Editorial listing media for St. Paul's deepest stock of pre-1940 character homes — Highland Park colonials, Summit Hill stained glass, and Mac-Groveland craftsman — shot to look the way the house feels at 4 PM in October.
Every asset a St. Paul listing needs. One shoot.
Video is how today’s listings win — it’s what makes a buyer feel the home before they walk in. Photography, drone, 3D, and the marketing kit complete the package that turns one listing into your next three.
Tru-View HDR Photography
7-bracket exposure fusion calibrated for St. Paul's dark woodwork and plaster archways. Windows stay windows.
ExploreDrone & Aerial
FAA-licensed aerial showing context near the Mississippi River and the bluffs above Highland Park.
ExploreCinematic Video
Property films and vertical reels cut for MLS, YouTube, and the algorithm that feeds your pipeline.
ExploreMatterport 3D
Dollhouse tours that pre-qualify buyers before they ever book a showing.
ExploreVirtual Staging
Photorealistic furniture for vacant listings — staged overnight, not over weeks.
ExploreVirtual Twilight
Golden-hour skies on demand — the thumbnail that stops the scroll on Zillow.
Explore2D Floor Plans
Accurate, branded floor plans — the second-most-clicked asset on every listing.
ExploreAgent Headshots
The face of your brand, shot to the same standard as your listings.
ExploreProperty Websites
A dedicated single-property site for every listing — your brand, your lead capture.
ExploreWe don't just shoot in St. Paul. We're calibrated for it.
St. Paul has the deepest stock of pre-1940 character homes in the metro — dark woodwork, plaster archways, narrow stairwells, coffered ceilings, and stained glass that turns sunlight into colored noise on the floor. Most photographers come back from a Highland Park shoot making a beautiful 1928 colonial look like a basement. These are the submarkets we shoot most, and exactly how we shoot them.
Highland Park
Zips 55105, 551161920s–1940s colonial, English Tudor, and period craftsman. Dark woodwork is the default. Photographically: 7-bracket HDR with a separate wood-tone recovery pass — standard 5-bracket leaves you muddy interiors and blown-out windows.
Summit Hill + Crocus Hill
$800K–$2.5MHigher-end period luxury. Stained glass, ornate woodwork, coffered ceilings. We bring strobe for darker spaces — libraries, dens, and sun porches where ambient light won't do it. Real twilight reads beautifully on these facades.
Mac-Groveland
Character HomesMid-tier residential with strong character-home representation. Bronze and Gold tiers are most common here, with the same wood-tone calibration we run in Highland Park.
Como Park + Merriam Park
Mature CanopyMid-tier 1920s–1950s residential. A mature tree canopy means scheduling around light is more critical here than in newer neighborhoods — we time the shoot to the property, not the calendar.
Downtown St. Paul Condos
Zip 55102Loft and high-rise product. A different shoot template entirely — closer to North Loop than Highland Park, built around clean light and the city view.
The dark-woodwork problem, fixed.
The single most common photography failure on St. Paul listings: a quartersawn-oak interior shot in standard 5-bracket HDR. The wood reads black, the windows blow out, and the seller's character — the thing the home is actually sold on — disappears from the photos. Our fix is calibrated specifically for these homes:
- 7-bracket exposure fusion — standard 5 doesn't reach the dynamic range
- Separate wood-tone recovery pass — quartersawn oak, walnut, and mahogany each render differently; we calibrate per home
- Strobe-assisted darker spaces — libraries, dens, and sun porches at the wrong time of day
- Stained glass treated separately — shot as a feature subject, not as a window
St. Paul listings are sold on character. The job of the photo is to show the buyer that the character was preserved — not lost to bad lighting. The Highland Park sellers we've worked with often tell us the same thing: they want the photos to look the way the house feels at 4 PM in October. That's a specific brief. We can shoot to it.Julian Lundgren — Founder, Cineminn Media Co.
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Pick your package and a time that works around your seller. Same-week availability across the Twin Cities metro.
We Shoot
A Cineminn photographer arrives calibrated for your submarket — brackets, lenses, and flight plan matched to the property.
Delivered by 9 AM
MLS-ready photos in your inbox by 9 AM the next morning — or the shoot is free. That's the written guarantee.
Priced for St. Paul listings. Guaranteed in writing.
The essentials, executed perfectly.
- 25 Tru-View HDR photos
- Drone aerial photos
- 9 AM next-day delivery
- All four guarantees
The full marketing engine for serious listings.
- Everything in Bronze
- Matterport 3D tour
- Drone reel + pattern-interrupt loops
- Add real twilight for $129
For Summit Hill, Crocus Hill, and the listings that demand it.
- Everything in Gold
- Real twilight session
- Cinematic property tour
- White-glove scheduling
Every package carries the Local Price Match — bring us a competitor's quote for identical services and we'll match it. Volume pricing for teams and brokerages.
5 buyer inquiries in 14 days. Or we extend the ads at our cost.
Photos are the front door — the Lead Guarantee is the engine behind it. We put your St. Paul listing in front of active buyers with managed ads, and we put the outcome in writing. If five buyer inquiries don't arrive in fourteen days, we keep the campaign running on our dime until they do.
- Written guarantee — five buyer inquiries in fourteen days, in the agreement
- We extend the ads — the campaign keeps running at our cost until it delivers
- Your brand, your leads — every inquiry routes directly to you, not a portal
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Also serving the cities around St. Paul.
The Cineminn standard, coast to coast.
Every Cineminn market is run by a certified local operator trained on the same playbook, the same calibration, and the same 9 AM guarantee that built our Twin Cities reputation.
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