January 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
January 21st, 2008
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 [...]
January 20th, 2008
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 question [...]
January 19th, 2008
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 [...]
January 18th, 2008
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 [...]
January 16th, 2008
Macworld is in progress this week so every thing Mac is being announced and hyped. Terry White has a 45 minute podcast that walks you through the features of the new version 6 of Photoshop Elements in the up coming new version due out the end of March. You can download it directly from Terry’s [...]
January 15th, 2008
Paul Deines, real estate photographer in Denver, CO sent me an example of some PAP (Pole Aerial Photography) that he’s done recently inspired by some previous posts we’ve done on this subject. Paul says, “it’s really making a difference in my exterior photos. Using this technique, I can shoot over cars parked in front of [...]
January 14th, 2008
Have you noticed the new little logo in your browser to the left of the photographyforrealestate.net URL? This little logo is called a “favicon” which is short for favorite icon or urlicon. This new little logo is thanks to Carson Coots, Houston area Web Designer, Graphics designer , Internet marketing guy, real estate photographer and [...]
January 13th, 2008
Susanne Hayek told me today that her good friend Scott Kleiman who is a Realtor at Sotheby’s in Pasadena, CA is very sick with CLL (Leukemia) and needs to find a matching bone marrow donor to survive. Scott was Susanne’s very first client four years ago when she started shooting real estate photography and is [...]
January 11th, 2008
There’s a good discussion going on in the PFRE flickr discussion group on using a marketing brochure to market yourself as a real estate photographer. Jon and Milton are talking about the fine points of using a brochure to get across your message.This discussion made me realize that the need for marketing real estate photography [...]
