Photography For Real Estate

I was googling around yesterday and ran across an interesting example of what I think is a state-of-the-art property site or tour. I think property sites and tours are morphing together into a single entity since it has become so inexpensive to purchase domain names these days. Why not get a domain name for a [...]

I’ve been pleased an amazed at the way the Photography For Real Estate flickr group has been working. This last weekend we went over 300 members on the group. I want to publicly thank Aaron Leitz for proposing this idea and helping me get it started. Earlier this year I’d been looking for a way [...]

Malcolm Waring sent me the following comments on his experiences with PAP:

Now I wish I would have taken the time yesterday to photograph the rig.
I was getting aggravated trying to shove the pole up in the air and point it in the right direction, so the first thing I got was a monitor.
I picked up [...]

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch shows a small video of an image resizing concept that researchers Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan have come up with. I’ll bet this is in Photoshop soon.
8/28 late Update: John Nack over at blogs.adobe.com/jnack/ reveals that Dr. Shai Avidan one of the researchers that came up with “Content [...]

Cherie Irwin just pointed out that Adobe is offering to upgrade Elements to Photoshop CS3 for only $299 This is a savings of $350! If you are an Elements user and you were dreaming of CS3 better take advantage of this!
Notice that in the lower right corner of the e-mail that Cherie got is [...]

Elevated shots of the front of homes are extremely important. More important for some homes than others but an elevated view always seems to help. For years, I’ve been limited to standing on the top of my truck. The roof of my old 1995 Tacoma was permanently concave from this activity. For some reason, I’m [...]

It’s that time of the year- Wed Nikon announced 2 new bodies and several new lenses. For interior shooters the most significant announcements have to be the new full frame D3 and the Nikon AF-S 14-24 mm F2.8G ED
I’ve always felt that Nikon would eventually break down and offer a full frame DSLR. I’m [...]

I ran across an article by Andrew Brown in The Guardian (newspaper in the UK) via John Knack’s blog, titled We all helped to speed the demise of professional photographers. It talks about the commodification of photography.This brings to mind the complaints that I hear all the time from RE photographers that so many Realtors [...]

Carson Coots over at realestateremix.com is putting together a directory of real estate marketing professionals. Carson describes his inspiration for the site as follows:
“Working in the marketing department for a major home builder, I have had a very tough time locating qualified vendors to outsource our marketing initiatives to… and although I would like to [...]

As the dpreview.com weekly newsletter said, Monday was Canon day since no less than 11 new Canon products were announced. Perhaps the most significant to real estate photographers was the Canon EF 14 mm F2.8 L II USM.
I associate this lens with real estate photographers because several accomplished real estate photographers I know use it. [...]

Wow everyone is getting into the property site act! vFlyer.com Introduces Domain Plus – Search for, Purchase and Host Domains and Build Single Property Websites. Domain Plus is a new service from vFlyer that enables subscribers to quickly find, purchase and host Single Property Websites directly from vFlyer. With Domain Plus, subscribers can purchase and [...]

This month ArchitecturalDigest.com has images by the great Architectural Photographer Julius Shulman. These photos are a retrospective look at photos of architecture designed by the famous architect Richard Neutra.
Is that a light reflecting in the far window? We have to cut Shulman some slack… he didn’t have Photoshop to fix reflection problems.

Sometimes HDR is the only way to get the shot outside. Photo by Maciek Duczynski. Here for more photos by Maciek Duczynski.
I find it interesting that you can spot a HDR image instantly… HDR processed images have a strange unearthly look that is unmistakable.

There was a new Zillow founded blog called Geek Estate Blog, launched on back on July 31 that is intended to bring together real estate professionals and tech professionals who are interested in learning how technology can increase their business.I’ve recently been invited to be a contributor to geekestateblog.com in the area of Photography so [...]

I hesitate to do another post on photo editing ethics again since we have pretty much beat this subject to death in the recent past. However, the Real Estate Trends + Technology Magazine of the California Association of Realtors have a pretty definitive article by John Edwards, titled Have you crossed the line?
I think this [...]