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 clicking on these links some [...]

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 workflow” Well I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There were several questions raised about how to get into the area of shooting real estate tour video so I consulted Fred Light who works in the Boston area and has been shooting real estate video for some time. Fred has been featured in Inman News and newsday.com. Fred also does a blog on video. [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py1RLRYzgcs]Recently I took a car trip and was catching up on my Podcasts. I listened to an episode of the Inside Digital Photo Podcast that interviewed Dirck Halstead. Halstead is the famous Photojournalist that covered the Guatemalan Civil War at age 17 and was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the [...]

I was looking through the twilight photos over on the new Photography For Real Estate group photos on flickr and noticed the big difference that white balance setting makes in the look of a twilight image. The image above is one posted my M. James Northen. Notice the difference between the interior light color of [...]

Sorry about the interruption! In the process of implementing a new domain name photographyforrealestate.net I got some name server pointers mess up and the blog has been inaccessible since about  2:00 PM  PST yesterday (May 14th). I’ve learned more than I want to know about name servers in the last 12 hours. Everything should work [...]

In the first day we’ve gotten a bunch of great twilight photos along with a bunch that aren’t twilight photos. I notice that most of the participants at this point are folks that are already familiar with flickr.com so I thought it would be useful to run through the flickr basics for flickr newbies. Here’s [...]

Aaron got me going on a way to use flickr.com to give Photography For Real Estate blog readers a way to post and discuss their own images. Flickr is also a way to get your portfolio of real estate work out there (for free) so it can be seen.Here’s the way it will work. Every [...]

This is the time of year when real estate photographers need to make sure they have a polarizer in their bag. It’s easy to forget that when it’s sunny outside you should try a polarizer on all your outside shots. In bright sunlight a polarizer makes colors rich and saturated. This gives an outdoor photo [...]

John Sembrot just pointed out an post from last year that talks about the Draganfly R/C helicopter that would be great for doing sub aerial real estate photography. This build it yourself rig is only $2500, only one fourth the cost of most electric helicopters that I’ve heard about. If you trace back the links [...]

popphoto.com reports the top 5 DSLRs for Feb. Canon Digital Rebel XTI and Nikon D40 took the top two spots respectively. The D40 has moved from #3 to number #2 since January of 2007. I’ve been talking to agents that are in the process of upgrading from non-DSLRs and they are choosing to upgrade to [...]

Several discussions I’ve been having recently brought up various aspects of the fact that the front exterior photo is THE most important photo in real estate marketing. The reason is that time and time again the listing agent is required to choose a single photo that is either featured most prominently (as on web sites) [...]