Real estate photography and video in New Westminster

New Westminster puts two quite different products within a few blocks of each other. Queens Park and the surrounding streets hold genuine heritage stock: older houses with detail worth photographing rather than shooting wide and moving on. Along the river there are towers whose whole case rests on the view and the layout.

Treating the two the same is how both end up looking ordinary. A heritage house shot like a condo becomes a set of empty rooms with nothing to distinguish it. A riverfront unit shot like a heritage house accumulates detail frames of fittings while never establishing what the buyer is actually paying for, which is the water and the light.

For a heritage property: what is original and what has been replaced. That single answer determines the whole detail set, because photographing new millwork as though it were period work is a claim the house cannot support once somebody is standing in it.

For a riverfront unit: which windows hold the water and roughly when the light is on them. New Westminster faces the river across a wide arc and the difference between the right hour and the wrong one is the difference between a view and a grey rectangle.