February 28th, 2007
VDeStefano
Vince De Stefano in Dingley, Australia sent me a description of how he built his Aerial Photography mast that he has mounted on the rear of his car. I’m not sure why but I don’t hear of these kind of masts being used outside of Australia and Europe. Perhaps the masts are not as [...]
February 27th, 2007
J Dhaem makes a good point, “CD’s are nice, but DVD’s are even better.” The thing I like about DVD slideshows is that almost everyone has a DVD player at home and all someone needs to do is pop it in the DVD player and they can see your slideshow on their big screen TV. [...]
February 25th, 2007
Thew, busy weekend. Just got back from a ski trip in Whistler, BC with great snow AND I had a new grandchild (Avery Lohrman) this morning. Can’t wait to get down to Salem, OR to meet him!
To continue the discussion from the previous post about Flash slide-shows. The Blue Fire blog has some tips on [...]
February 20th, 2007
Real Estate Photographer Cherie Irwin’s two comments on the previous post are worth highlighting. Cherie says says she has increased her revenue by 25% just by offering custom slide-shows on CD.
I can attest to the fact that both sellers and buyers love photo CDs with a slide-show or virtual tour on it. I’ve been [...]
February 20th, 2007
From Ohs Remodel
Yesterday downloaded the Lightroom 1.0 trial version to use until the distribution CD I ordered gets here. I was pleased to find so many new features have been added since the last beta version.
I particularly like the straighten feature that allows you to rotate an image. There’s still no way to distort an [...]
February 20th, 2007
I need to highlight a comment that Hojin Chang a Realtor in SW Orlando just made so that everyone sees the link he pointed out. Hojin points out that there is a excellent free Property Photography e-book/site on Nick Stubbs’s All Things Photography web site. This property photography site has a huge amount of information [...]
February 19th, 2007
As of today Lightroom 1.0 is shipping. John Nack’s blog has a a good summary of links and info on the release. There is a free 30 day trial version for download.
February 18th, 2007
Last week I got several good reader suggestions for products that real estate photographers and Realtors might want to use. I’ve decided to make a page to list all these reader suggested resources and things that I comment on. This page can be accessed directory by just clicking on the “Resources” link in the horizontal [...]
February 16th, 2007
The more I use Lightroom the more I’m convinced that it has the potential to nearly take over a Real Estate Photographer’s work-flow. I know, I’ve been chastized by my Mac user friends for not including Aperture… if I had a Mac I’d try it out.
I’m anxiously awaiting delivery of my copy of Lightroom 1.0 [...]
February 16th, 2007
Susanne Hayek reports that she is using Google Checkout to collect fees from her clients. She says:
“…thanks to one of your readers for mentioning google checkout. I had been trying to figure out how to accept credit cards without the hefty fees. I signed up for it and as soon as I let my [...]
February 13th, 2007
Stephen Shankland over at Cnet reports that “…Windows Vista and the Microsoft Photo Info tool can cause problems with metadata or the image itself.”
I’m an old Mac user (1985 to 1992) that moved to Windows because for a long time our local MLS did not support Macs. But now days that’s not no longer the [...]
February 12th, 2007
Marc Lacoste just pointed out an outstanding article to me that was published in yesterdays (Sunday Feb 11, 2007) New York Times.
This is the kind of article that Real Estate Photographers should make copies of and pass out to their clients. It’s a sales presentation for hiring a Professional RE Photographer. This also great material for [...]
February 10th, 2007
I have a hard time keeping up with all the free network-centric software that Google is acquiring and creating. It’s been a while since I’d looked at Picasa. Picasa is a photo-editing and management that Google acquired several years ago. Back when I used blogger.com for this blog I used an older version of Picasa [...]
February 8th, 2007
Susanne Hayek, a Real Estate Photographer in Arcadia, CA sent me a request to be in the RE Photographer Directory today and I was looking at her website and noticed several interesting ideas I though others could benefit from.
The first is the concept of a property website. For $300 she creates a web site for [...]
