March 31st, 2008
danjryan in the flickr discussion group points out an interesting little HDR tutorial over at abduzeedo.com. HDR topics are some of the most popular subjects these days. And I can understand why if done well HDR techniques can save time and equipment costs when shooting interiors, which in real estate photography is important. However, the [...]
March 30th, 2008
I need to confess. I’ve committed grievous sins. I’ve used Photoshop to modify the physical appearance of the exterior of a home we are going to put on the market this week. Not just once but twice. The evidence is in the comparison photo to the right. This all started when my wife Levi (the [...]
March 28th, 2008
Over at photoshopinsider Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski made the above video introducing Adobe’s new, free photo editor online photo sharing site. Wall Street Journal also has an article on the new product.I finally got to use Photoshop Express. Turns out the site doesn’t seem to work quite right when I use Firefox on my [...]
March 26th, 2008
I’ve been reading Christian Bloch’s book, The HDRI Handbook, and finding it useful in learning HDR processing. Christian is a visual effects artist who works in Hollywood and has created effects for TV shows StarTrek, Invasion, Lost, as well as several movies. Christian’s book has a companion site at: www.hdrlabs.com/book. This site has some good [...]
March 24th, 2008
I did a shoot this weekend of a new listing we have and decided to use both my usual lighting technique (primarily on camera flash) and Enfuse and use what ever worked the best. It turned out not to be much contest; I like the Enfuse results best. Here are a sequence of photos that [...]
March 23rd, 2008
I just tried out a new do-it-yourself tour site that was launched not to long ago called tourbuzz.net. The site is designed with photographers in mind because it allows a photographer to create an manage many client’s tours and put the photographer’s branding on tour as well as the agent’s branding information.
March 20th, 2008
A quick update on the April 25, Seattle Workshop (details are here): We now have more than enough committed attendees registered to announce that the workshop is a go for sure! Scott Hargis’s session on lighting with multiple strobes is a popular attraction and drawing people from all over. So far we have attendees registered [...]
March 18th, 2008
Think you need to use lighting equipment to get a bright interior? Think again! This tour is shot by a company based in Seattle called Vista Estate. Vista Estate’s approach is to shoot with no lighting equipment. This is one of their sample tours that shows what you can do without any extra lighting equipment, [...]
March 17th, 2008
The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site. Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided. This decision is based on errors found in the 1.4 release. You might want [...]
March 14th, 2008
Recently reader David Palermo had the opportunity to spend over an hour with one of the great architectural photographers, Julius Shulman at his LA home. With David’s permission I am reposting his description of his meeting with Shulman here just as David posted it on the PFRE flickr discussion group:
