Archive for February, 2008

Tour Reviews: A Way to Get Feedback On Your Tours

February 29th, 2008

I want to kick off the concept of tour reviews, a new use for the flickr group discussion group.
In a comment on the discussion of What to charge for real estate photography Mike Yother suggested that we setup a new scheme to allow all you gentle readers to evaluate and vote on tours. Mike’s […]

What To Charge For Real Estate Photography?

February 28th, 2008

The answer to the what to charge question has two parts:

How much on the average does it cost you to show-up to any property in your territory?
How much should you charge as an hourly rate?

How much to show-up? Anyone in the business of driving around to properties in these days of rising transportation costs needs […]

A Video Ad For Real Estate Photography

February 27th, 2008

Here’s a nice little ad for real estate photography that reader Gary K Meyer sent me. This video is from the site: openhouse NYC: FLOORPLAN. I don’t have much background, but it sure is a nice little ad. Thanks for the link Gary!

Current Trends in Real Estate Photography Tour Usage

February 25th, 2008

Tour usage overall and video tour usage are both increased significantly over 2007.
Last year at this time when I looked at tour usage only 8% of the listings I reviewed on our local MLS (Seattle’s east side) had links to tours. Click here for last years details. This year when I looked at a similar […]

Seattle PFRE Workshop: Featuring Scott Hargis Lighting Session

February 24th, 2008

Registration is now open for the Seattle Photography For Real Estate workshop on April, 25. Click here for the schedule and full details. Or click on the Seattle Workshop button along the top of the header image.
Scott Hargis has agreed to fly up to Seattle and present the first ever Scott Hargis Lighting with Multiple […]

Market Increasing for Memorializing Upper-end Homes

February 22nd, 2008

John Sembrot pointed out to me that yesterday in the Home and Garden section of the New York Times there was an interesting article by Kimberly Stevens, titled “Picture, Picture on the Wall…”.
This article describes the trend currently going on where because

New Polldaddy Poll: What is Your Main Method of Lighting For Real Estate Photography

February 21st, 2008

I’ve just changed the poll on the left hand side-bar. The new poll asks: What is your main method of lighting for real estate photography?
As usual I’ve moved the summary of final results of the last poll on real estate photography pricing up to the “poll pesults” page on the button above the header images. […]

Canon G9- Sexy Little Pocket Camera With Big Camera Features

February 19th, 2008

OK, this is not about real estate photography but I can’t help it, I got a Canon G9 last week and I just love it! I wanted camera I could carry in my pocket that shoots RAW and shoots video. That has all the controls that my big-boy camera has.
The G9 is a wonderful little […]

Aperture 2.0 Is Not A Professional Application

February 18th, 2008

I admit it I’m a little biased towards Lightroom since I’ve used Lightroom since it came out. But since in TWIP #5 Scott Bourne and Alex Linsey were so “ga-ga” over Aperture 2.0 I decided, “OK, I’ll keep an open mind and check out the new Aperture 2.0 just released”. I downloaded the 60 day […]

Hawkeye Media: Spectacular Aerial 360s, Videos and Stills

February 18th, 2008

Mark LaBoyteaux from Hawkeye Media posted a spectacular example of one of his aerial 360s in a comment on one of my previous posts on shooting aerial 360s. Note that this example is using FPP flash that can be displayed full-screen. Click the full-screen control at the bottom right control bar to go into full-screen […]