Photography For Real Estate

I talked to Aaron Sperling, CEO/President of vflyer.com today and as I suspected getting all the great features of vflyer.com for free is too good to be true. Aaron said they plan to “introduce a pricing structure” in the next 2 to 3 weeks. He said he would send me a press release as soon [...]

Carson Coots, a real estate photographer in the Houston area just pointed out a nifty new free service www.vflyer.com that creates “virtual flyers”. That is, if you supply the photos and words and it will create a flyer that can be used either in HTML form to e-mail around to people or in PDF [...]

On December 15 Adobe released a free beta version of Photoshop CS3. Because I’m a Photoshop geek, I was one of the first to down load and install the new beta version. I’ve been using it for all my work since Dec 15 and I like it a lot. Come to think of it, [...]

Last week I was talking to Dawn Shaffer a real estate photographer and virtual tour provider in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area. Dawn is the second PFRE reader I’ve talked to that is happily using Real Tour Vision. Earlier this year Sharon Nymann, a Realtor in the Key Largo area, reported that she [...]

Dawn Shaffer, a real estate photographer that works in the Vancover, WA and Portland, Oregon area left a significant comment on one of the Staging and Styling posts. Dawn says:
“We provide a list of tips for the homeowner to follow before we arrive. You’re welcome to “rip it off” (across the bottom you [...]

Last Tuesday ImmerVison Released Pure Player for Flash. ImmerVision is a company that develops software for displaying interactive panoramas. Up until last week there panorama viewing software was based on Java called Pure Player for Java. I’ve been using Pure Player for Java ever since they released it a year or so ago to create [...]

Over the last two years writing this blog I’ve come to believe there are some basic aesthetic guidelines that makes real estate photography effective. I see so many Realtors and even practicing real estate photographers oblivious to these fundamentals that I feel compelled to write them down. Here they are. I’ve also added an ad [...]

I frequently get requests for recommendations for real estate photographers from Realtors. Also, I know real estate photographers are interested in knowing what other real estate photographers around the world are doing. So to fill this need I’ve decided to do a real estate photographer directory. If you’re a real estate photographer and would like [...]