May 20th, 2007
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. [...]
May 18th, 2007
[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 [...]
May 15th, 2007
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 [...]
May 15th, 2007
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 [...]
May 14th, 2007
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 [...]
May 13th, 2007
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 [...]
May 8th, 2007
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 [...]
May 6th, 2007
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 [...]
May 5th, 2007
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 [...]
May 4th, 2007
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) [...]
