Archive for November, 2006

Marketing Your Real Estate Photography With a Website

November 28th, 2006

If you looked at the image by Thomas Bliss that I talked about in the last post you visited Thomas’s website (www.architecturephotographer.com ). I was impressed by the clean simplicity and effectiveness of this site. I think it’s a good example of an effective photographer’s website. As I’ve said before, real estate photographers need to have [...]

Stunning Interior Image By Thomas Bliss

November 26th, 2006

Thomas Bliss is an Architectural Photographer that works out of studios in Gig harbor, WA and Tucson, AZ. I’ve had a link to his site in the list of interior photographers along the right hand side of the blog. Thomas asked me to update the link I have to his site so I was looking [...]

Architectural Photography – History and Resources

November 24th, 2006

I was surfing around this morning and ran across a delighful series of articles on architectural photography at about.com . These articles give interesting background and history to the subject of photographing buildings as well as and links to work by some of the greats in this field link Ezra Stoller and Julius Schulman.
Even though [...]

D40 – Nikon’s New Low-End DSLR Announced

November 22nd, 2006

Nikon’s newly announced D40 significantly lowers the cost of a DSLR. The Nikon D40 is small, light and undeniably cheap at just $599/£449.99/€679.99 with the new 18-55mm kit lens (it won’t be sold as body-only). This pricing puts the D40 $300 below the D50. This new 18-55mm kit lens is a updated version of [...]

Shooting Houses Sited Above Street Level

November 19th, 2006

I got an e-mail advertisement for the home above yesterday. This realtor’s image reminded me how difficult it is to get a good front shot of some homes that sit high above street level. For those readers that don’t see the problem with this shot and understand why this home looks so weird I [...]

Image Editing Services For Real Estate Agents

November 9th, 2006

Last week I talked to John Durrant who recently launched www.doctor-photo.co.uk. I’ve been so busy with moving to Oregon that I’m just now getting around to writing a post about it. John is aiming at providing image editing services for UK Real Estate agents although I’m sure John would do image editing for real estate [...]