Photography For Real Estate

We were walking on the beach North of Puerto Penasco this morning and ran across a great ocean front property. I has it’s own marketing website. The setting is stunning. Right out on a rocky point on the Sea of Cortez (no big surf or bad storms because it’s protected). 4700 SF and 2.2 million […]

I’m on vacation in Puerto Penasco, Mexico struggling with the spotty Internet connections. I’m going to make a post while the wireless connection is “very low” before it goes away completely. Aaron pointed out this morning that Lightroom was just released the other day. I missed the announcement since I’ve not been online much. I […]

Recently I was having a discussion with a local RE photographer friend about the pros and cons of using an external flash as opposed to using natural light. The discussion arose because of the images my friend had seen of the Sam Hill Mansion (an old Historic Seattle land mark) that is currently for sale. […]

Here’s your chance to give some input to the folks at vFlyer.com. They are thinking about adding video to vFlyers and would like some input on how it should work. Aaron Sperling at vFlyer.com asks:
“…I had a questions regarding video support for Real Estate. I wondered if you or your blog readers have a perspective […]

I’ve been “head-down” in Realtor work the last few days since we’ve been working on putting a new listing on the market. While putting on our new listing and sizing the photos it occurred to me that I’ve never mentioned my process for photo-sizing.
First of all I like to make sure photos area as big […]

I wanted to highlight some links that Marc Lacoste, our French contributor, passed along.

www.flickr.com/groups/sigma10-20 A flickr group for Sigma 10-20mm users.
www.16-9.net/lens_tests A site that has some very interesting reviews of wide-angle lenses.

Remercie beaucoup Marc .

Richard Clafton working in Seabrook, Texas sent us a link to a gallery of his real estate photography work done with a Sony A100 and a Sigma 10-20mm zoom lens. Richard says:
“I have some sample images on my site over at www.riroc.com/gallery.aspx. All the images in the gallery were taken with a Sony A100 […]

Several Realtors have asked me how to find a real estate photographer that works in their local area. These inquiries are what got me started compiling a real estate photographer directory but it is early in the process so the directory doesn’t cover all areas. So if you are a Realtor and you have realized […]

Highlighting a comment below by Ian, it appears that for some reason vflyer.com ads may be being deleted from craigslist. Ian says his was and my example post below indicates it was deleted also. I’ve re-posted may example vflyer.com ad and I’m going to track it closely to make sure it stays on CL a […]

An update on vflyer.com. Inman.com had a article today on vflyer.com that released some aspects of the new vflyer.com pricing. Inman says:
“…San Francisco-based vFlyer announced the launch of its subscription-based services Friday. While the company will continue to offer free services to sellers who create up to 10 published fliers, the new subscription plan includes […]