Photography For Real Estate

I just implemented a Photography For Real Estate Book Shelf. This is, a list of books that I’ve reviewed some time on a past post or one of the blog readers has recommended the book. The list has links to amazon.com and if you purchase any of these books by […]

Raye Bellinger of Sacramento asks:
“Would you mind exploring workflow as it applies to the busy professional. Lightroom is nice but other programs like ACDSee Pro are more functional and much faster with RAW files. I would particularly like to see what the well established real estate photographers are using to speed […]

Vince at propertysnaps.com.au reports that he’s added a new revenue stream to his real estate photography business- true aerial photography - the kind where you get in a real airplane. Vince says:
“I have started offering aerial photos from an aircraft. Basically I hire a plane for $250AU per hour and I can shoot about 7-8 […]

I think is is essential to have some example work to show potential clients. In the process of adding people to the real estate photographer directory I’ve noticed that there are are folks wanting to do RE photography that either don’t have a web site or have a general photography web site with no examples […]

M. James Northen sent me an example of a shot that he used Photomatix to get. M.J. says:
“An immediate results technique is photomatix HDR image for problem exteriors …. North facing homes are a bitch. Sun just never seems right. A gorilla ladder – 11’ up including human standing on the ladder – tripod […]

M. James Northen made some appropriate observations. My recent posts that give some references to info about the fine points of rather involved interior lighting should not be miss construed to mean that this is the way real estate photography is approached. On the contrary real estate photography must be done on a time scale […]

You may have noticed that back on the Scott Hargis tutorial on how to light a room in the comments Geoff Wilson recommended the LightSource Podcast (E041) that features an interview with Interior and Architectural Photographer Nathanael Bennett. I listened to the Podcast and also recommend it. The interview features:

Getting started in architectural photography
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The last few days I’ve been talking to Michael Asgian who owns www.panostar.com. Michael showed me a recent series of work that he did for a “sophisticated” client who was looking for a very specific “heavy look” in photos to market their home. These photos will be used in a historical home magazine. When I […]

I was about ready to ask Scott to describe his approach at using the “Strobist technique” he uses to light a room. Turns out he’s already done a nice tutorial with examples over on the Strobist discussion group. Scott describes this technique for building up this shot with 4 strobes. I thought the readers here […]

This weeks Flickr posting theme is challenging shoots. Challenging situations can be learning situations.
The photo above is easily the most challenging listing we’ve ever had. We were selling it for a personal friend otherwise we’d probably never taken this listing. This little home was built in 1904 and had two wild and crazy renters living […]