Photography For Real Estate

I’d like to thank everyone that is signing up as a potential donor via the link to Scott Kleiman’s in the upper left side-bar. Susanne Hayek told me today that the donor program looking for a match was used to processing about 5 kit requests a week until we put up the link to Scott’s site on [...]

I’ve changed the real estate photographer directory to a pay product. The update work and related interaction has increased to a much higher level than I expected. It’s taking over my life! I’ve had a huge number of requests to be listed on the Interior Photographers list on the left side-bar. In the past the [...]

After participating in a number of discussions about photo licensing with real estate photographers I’ve realized that there is a disconnect going on between real estate photographers licensing and MLS photo usage rules.

Adobe has launched a collaborative Lightroom help site. The site is a wiki where anyone can contribute tips information etc. like wikipedia. The energy that Adobe is putting into Lightroom is amazing!
Slideshowpro has become my favorite Lightroom web module plugin so I was delighted when I ran across Michael Clark’s article on using slideshowpro [...]

Put this on you calendar: This Friday (2/1) at 8:00PM PST Scott will have a online interview on the Architecture forum of photocamel.com talking about his technique of lighting rooms with small off camera flash. I believe the interview text will also be available for reading on the forum after the interview is over.

Ed Medeiros of Honolulu just posted a comment on an earlier post that I think is a fantastic insight! His marketing idea is that the home seller is really the one in control of the home selling process and agents that aren’t doing everything necessary to market a listing deserve to be bypassed. Forget about [...]

I’m seeing more and more evidence that the Ken Burns style video is the most effective way to do video for real estate.
Sharon Nyman, a Realtor in Key Largo, FL, that shoots her own photos, told me that when she purchased a TV spot on spotrunner.com, spotrunner sent a well known professional videographer [...]

Scott Pruett’s comments in my last post on 360VR made me realize that I need to be clear about the business case for 360VR in real estate photography.
I did a post last July were I intended to put 360VR in perspective of real estate photography but it fell short of it’s intended goal.

There is a new poll up today about real estate photography pricing. Yes, I now there are a huge variation between locations but I get a bunch of questions about pricing so I thought it would be interesting to get a feeling for the broad range of fees. An here’s a currency converter to convert [...]

Today I was browsing through the PanotoolsNG forum which is where all the top panographers in the world hang out. (Not that I’m in that class but I love to keep up with what’s going on in this field and this is were all the important stuff in this field is discussed).
One of the postings [...]

I want to amplify and expand on a comment that Justin Soles made on yesterdays post. There’s probably no more potentially symbiotic relationship as that between a real estate photographer and a stager. The stager needs to have photographs to document what they do (they base their business on before and after shots) and a [...]

I’m amazed by the number of new real estate photographers out there that are starting businesses. In the last two weeks I’ve talked to at least one a day. I don’t know whether the rate of real estate photographer business start-ups is increasing or this PFRE blog is becoming more effective at attracting them.There seem [...]

There seems to be allot of talk about what’s next for Lightroom. Perhaps it’s just because Macworld was last week. Steven Shankland over at CNet has an article about a discussion he had with Kevin Connor, the Adobe executive that manages the Lightroom and Photoshop products. Kevin says that it’s not out of the [...]

As the administrator of the Photography for Real Estate (PFRE) flickr group I feel obligated to let everyone that is a PFRE member and posting photos to that flickr group about a dimension of flickr that is not completely obvious. That is, unless you take special care in setting the permissions on your photos that [...]

Just after my post this last week on Paul Deines Pole Aerial Photography (PAP) rig I was thinking about what production DSLR would make a good PAP camera. The Canon 40D immediately came to mind because I’d heard good things about it and most of all it has a LiveView LCD screen. That is, if [...]