Photography For Real Estate

I wanted to highlight Marc Lacoste’s great idea for shooting in corners for those of you that don’t frequent the flickr discussions.

If you already own Lightroom and have used it in the last few days it will have automatically asked to be updated to version 1.1. Version 1.1 is free and has some pretty nice features. The two I like the best are sharpening, noise removal and clarity. Uwe Steinmueller over at outbackphoto.com has one of [...]

Judging by the traffic on the blog and the number of comments on this subject the ethics of modifying real estate photos is a topic of high interest. So I’ve attempted to  improve the wording and summarize previous posts and comments and suggestions on the ethics topic and create a page that has a link [...]

I don’t know how many of you noticed it but it but HighPix Commercial Photography BRISBAN commented on the post I did titled “When Does Wide Become Too Wide?” They quoted article 35 of the Standards of Business Practice of the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ). Article 35 says:
“Article 35 – Photographic RepresentationMembers [...]

For those of you that don’t frequent the Photography For Real Estate reader photos I wanted to highlight what I think is a particularly stunning photo by Matt Stec a real estate photographer who works out of  Auckland, NZ.I think that Matt has done an outstanding job of composing and lighting this image. He uses [...]

Since there are many Realtors that read this blog that do their own photography I thought I’d highlight some of the Realtor-photographers that come to my attention. Last June I did a post on Sharon Nyman a Realtor in Key Largo, Florida. Sharon does very nice work!Another Realtor who shoots his own listings is Gary [...]

Here is an interesting possibility for expanding your RE photography business to solicit business for FSBOs in your area. This person in the Bay area is promoting their services to For Sale By Owners (FSBOs) in the bay area. I think this is a good idea! Their ad is as follows:

Real estate photography, flyer [...]

I got a e-mail from Dom, a German photographer that wanted to raise the issue of “over doing it” with ultra-wide angle lenses. He says:
“But there´s one point I´m straightly opposite to yours and that´s the lens.
I would recommend just a 28-35mm lens on 35mm/fullframe (d)SLRs or for digital DX nothing less then 20mm. Here´s [...]

About 6 months ago I switched from using Outlook to using Gmail. I also moved many of the files that I use for maintaining this blog to Gmail documents which allows one to keep online versions of spreadsheets and Word like documents. In particular I keep the Real Estate Photographer Directory as a online Google [...]

Today vFlyer add a service call Watermark Plus which is a image enhancing service offered as part of vFlyer that allows users to merchandise and enhance photos and images by adding text, graphics, logos and watermarks to them – quickly and easily. The service allows online sellers to:

Protect photos by adding visible watermarks and logos
Enhance [...]

Drew King who works in the NY area sent me this craigslist ad. Since it will expire some time, I’ll repost it below so everyone can continue to read it:
I am a real estate agent who needs someone to take pictures of homes in the Nassau and Suffolk area (wwww.BrianSilvestry.com) I work with deadlines so [...]

A recently released study of the California Association of Realtors use of Technology by Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist of the California Association of Realtors (CAR) reaffirms the trends in the Real Estate that are driving the demand for good Real Estate photography. Here are a few of the report’s findings:

About 3 of 4 (73%) adult [...]

Cheri Irwin reports that her new Manfrotto 682B monopod with retractable legs has sped up her work flow by helping keep her camera straight. She says:
“Since falling walls always seem to be an issue for us, especially those who shoot off-tripod, I found a really great item. I have been shooting on a tripod [...]

Last week I had to post our rental home on craigslist.org. Since I use vflyer.com to create my craigslist ads I was looking around on vflyer.com and noticed they have added some new features since the last time I was there.
To me the most interesting feature is the listing widget feature. This is a feature [...]

The recent latimes.com article by Ann Brenoff is another must read real estate photography article for your marketing kit. Much like the NYTimes article I featured last February, this article gives a some good real estate photography statistics and some shooting tips from Santa Monica-based Nick Springett and Everett Fenton Gidley, the big guns [...]