Source photographs
What a set needs to arrive as
None of this needs a camera or a tripod. It is the difference between a phone photograph that corrects well and one that does not, and it is all decided in the thirty seconds before you press the shutter.
Send the original files
The file straight from the camera roll holds far more than a copy that has been through a messaging app, and a screenshot holds almost nothing. HEIC, JPEG, PNG and phone RAW or DNG are all fine.
Hold the phone level
Chest height, back straight, phone upright rather than tilted up or down. A level frame needs less rotation, and less rotation means less of the room cropped away.
Use the main lens
Digital zoom throws away detail before the file is even written. Step back instead; the ultra-wide lens is fine if you tell us you used it, because it bends straight lines and that is corrected differently.
Keep the lighting consistent
Within one room, leave the lights as they are for every frame rather than switching them between shots, and tell us which windows had direct sun on them.
Switch the clever modes off
Filters, beauty modes and heavy in-camera enhancement bake decisions into the file that cannot be undone. Plain photographs correct better than improved ones.
Cover the room
One frame from the doorway and one along each wall gives enough overlap to match the set. Tell us anything that must stay visible, such as a certificate, a sign or stock on a shelf.
Send what you already have even if it breaks half of this. Frames are judged one at a time,
and where a set is not good enough as it stands you are told which rooms are worth walking
back into, before anything is quoted rather than after.