Photos win jobs. Take these five before you leave the site.

Homeowners cannot judge a weld or a joint. They judge what they can see: does this company do work that looks like what I want, at houses that look like mine. That is why real job photos out-convert every stock image and every paragraph about quality craftsmanship ever written.

Five shots before you leave any site, two minutes total. The before, from the exact spot you will take the after. The after, same spot, same angle, so the change is undeniable. One detail shot up close: the hardware, the joint, the finish, the thing another pro would nod at. One wide shot with context, the whole yard, the whole roof line. And if the customer is friendly, one shot with their permission of anything unusual about the job, because unusual jobs pull unusual searches.

Wipe the lens first. That one habit fixes half of contractor photography.

Where they go: your website, your Google Business Profile, and the folder you keep for the customer who asks have you done one like mine before. A steady drip of fresh, dated job photos also tells Google and the AI tools that the business is alive, which quietly helps everything else.

You already do the hard part, the work itself. The photo is the receipt. Stop finishing jobs without collecting it.