Villa photography on the Costa Blanca, planned before the first frame.

Estate agents and brokers who need a listing ready on a fixed date. Owners selling privately who want the same standard an agency expects. Owners of holiday rentals who need photographs that match the house a guest will actually find.

Rasante is a one-person studio. I plan, shoot and deliver every job myself, so the person you brief is the person holding the camera. I shoot with a Canon 6D and a Sony ZV-E10.

A villa is not photographed room by room in the order of the floor plan. It is photographed in the order of the light. So before the shoot I work out three things and put them on one page, the shot plan.

• Sun. Where it is at each hour on each facade, terrace and pool, so exteriors are taken when the light is right and interiors when the windows are doing the work.
• Route. The order of the day through the house and garden, so no space is shot twice and nothing is left to the last minute.
• Positions. Where the camera stands for every frame and what that frame has to show: the view, the pool, how the living room opens to the terrace.

The plan also says what is not worth shooting, and where a drone flight would add something the ground cannot. You receive a draft with the dates I propose, you confirm, and the plan is final. The sample plan shows the format on a fictional Altea Hills villa.

• Walk-through. We go through the plan on site and fix anything that has changed since the brief: a closed door, a car that cannot move, a room still in use.
• Exteriors. Facades, terraces and pool at the hour the plan names.
• Interiors. Room by room, with the windows as the main light, once the sun has moved to where the plan expects it.
• Extra frames. Details, and a dusk frame of the house with its lights on when the plan includes one.
• Hand-over. I tell you what is done and when the files arrive.

Weather moves the date, not the plan. If the sky is wrong for the exteriors, we agree a new day and the plan carries over. Rescheduling terms are written in the quote. What the owner does in the days before makes a visible difference, and the 12-point preparation checklist lists it.

One delivery, within one week of the shoot day. Rush delivery is possible on request and is quoted together with the date.

Usage terms are written in each quote, so you know what the images may be used for before you confirm. Authorship stays with me, as Spanish law requires.

I reply within one working day with dates and a draft plan. Files arrive within a week of the shoot day. If a listing has to go live on a fixed date, say so in the first message and ask for rush delivery.

Altea, Altea Hills, Benidorm, Finestrat, Moraira, Jávea, Calpe, Dénia and La Nucía, and nearby on the Costa Blanca. If your villa is somewhere else, ask. I work in English, Spanish and Polish.