Photography For Real Estate

I’ve talked to several Real Estate Photographers recently in the process of purchasing new DSLRs and noticed that there is a misunderstanding about what lenses are appropriate for real estate photography on the new DSLRs.
First of all there are two types of DSLRs:

Full frame DSLRs that have digital sensors the same, or nearly the same […]

Carol Lloyd has an article in the SF Chronicle on December 23 that describes a new product (vizzvox.com) that allows you to easily create a slide show with a voice-over. Here is an example. And here’s another. A great presentation of a pretty nice pad. I could live there! For $150 you can create a […]

It’s a good time of the year to look at what worked well in 2007 and to plan how to refine focus to what works best in the coming year. So I was looking over the top PFRE posts for this year. To rank these I used a combination of traffic and comments. A low […]

In Seattle, each night during the Christmas season a large Yacht with carolers (the Christmas ship) visit various public beaches around Lake Washington. Seattle boaters decorate their boats with lights and follow the Christmas ship to join in the festivities.

Here are my picks of the top 36 Real Estate Photos from the Photography For Real Estate (PFRE) flickr.com photo discussion group. I selected these 36 photos from the 1258 images that were posted this year. As of today the number of members in the PFRE flickr group is 589.
For those of you that have […]

It’s now ten weeks after I started distribution of the Photography For Real Estate e-book. It is very clear that demand for the e-book is very strong. I’m surprised, and gratified by the fact that it is selling well  worldwide. Around 50% of sales are in the US. Australia is a close second followed by […]

My wife Levi just returned from an intensive week in Issaquah, WA helping several long time clients purchase properties. One of her comments about the experience was instructive for anyone that creates or makes decisions about which tour to use. She said, “why do all these tours load so slow and why can’t I control […]

Notice that there is a new PollDaddy poll on the left side-bar. It helps me focus the content for the readers if I know more about who you all are and what you are interested in. I’ve added a poll results page (in the navigation bar above the header image) as a place to keep […]

Just the other day a real estate photographer friend was telling me how much it cost him this last year to provide slide show tours with each photo shoot he did. Including a good looking tour with each shoot is really a nice touch and I think contributes to building a client base. However, if […]

Some say yes, some say no. Reader David Palermo sent me some of his recent work testing HDR processing for interiors. David showed me the following images:

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