Photography For Real Estate

Ron Kenny (captainronsphotos) discussed an idea for using the flickr discussion group for reviewing home shoots at the Seattle workshop. The basic idea is that it would be nice to use the flickr discussion group to get more eyes on all the photos from a shoot you are about to send to a client. An [...]

I’ve talked to and met a number of people recently that are just getting started in real estate photography. Many of their questions center around what equipment and software do you need to get started. Here is my current recommendation assuming that you want to spend as little as possible: Body: Canon XT or Nikon [...]

I couldn’t resist posting this shot taken by our workshop sponsor Stephen Armstrong of Open2View.com from the Holiday Inn parking lot during one of the last sessions of the day. Stephen says he had his mast up about 60′ (not its full height) for this shot. Stephen, we are all at the window looking back [...]

I’ve put together a 4 minute video that is a composite of video clips that I shot in many of the Seattle workshop sessions to give those of you that weren’t there a feeling for what went on. For a report from the attendee prospective be sure to see Sabrina Huang’s report on the workshop [...]

30 of us had a great time yesterday in Seattle at the PFRE Workshop. Scott Hargis and Thomas Grubba gave us a informative and entertaining demonstration on how to light home interiors with off camera flash. Scott’s friend Thomas Grubba attended the workshop and helped with the demos. Phil Meadows gave us some training on [...]

Rob Jordan of Enhance Design responded to my post on flyer design and redesigned my flyer for me (see the redesign to the right),Rob raises a number of great points. Robert says: Hi, I’m an avid reader of your blog. I’m a graphic designer so I just had to comment on your recent blog post [...]

VRMAG has an interesting article by Michel Thoby, a well known panographer, experimenting with Enfuse for Night Photography. I point this article out not so much for the VR aspects but for the subject of using Enfuse for real estate still photography. Michel reports that: “ I have read and I have myself written about [...]

A few weeks ago Susanne Hayek asked to have a poll that asks about part time vs full time real estate photographers so I just changed the poll on the left side-bar to ask that question. Since we have blog readers that are Realtors that do work just for themselves and some that also work [...]

Mason Trullinger has posted two multiple flash build-up examples in the flickr discussion group: Office example Bathroom example The build-ups are a sequence of photos that show the effect adding each one of several flashes when lighting a room. Mason has included notes on each photo pointing out the placement and flash power settings. This [...]

In the process of beta testing my upcoming real estate photography business kit, that includes flyer and brochure templates I’ve had some questions and discussion about why make flyers and brochures and why you’d want to use Photoshop do so.The biggest motivation for making flyers is that as a real estate photographer you have everything [...]

I’ve had a cancellation, so there’s one seat available for the Seattle Workshop on April 25. Please contact me directly if you are interested. larry (at) lohrman.com.

John Muir in the  PFRE flickr discussion group pointed out a youtube video made by Jennifer Kirby. Jen isn’t saying anything earth shaking that we don’t all know but it’s great to hear it coming from a Realtor once in a while.To me this kind of video clip is a great way for Realtors to [...]

I just got the 30th registration for the April 25 Seattle Workshop so I’ve removed the buy-now buttons from the registration page . If you’d like to be on a waiting list for the Seattle workshop in leave your name, e-mail address and phone number (this is in case the timing is tight) in a [...]

Real estate photographers (at least in the US) need to understand that business is becoming very difficult for your best clients (upper-end listing agents). It’s a great time to be a real estate buyer but it’s a very bad time to be a seller. On the chart to the right (for the Seattle area) the [...]

An update on the Seattle Workshop: Because of the logistics of our hands-on sessions we need to limit the number of workshop attendees to 30. We currently have 25 registered and since the rate of sign-ups last week was quite quite high so I expect the workshop to sell out this week. Thanks to captainron’s [...]

When you are in a business that consists of putting out your phone number and e-mail address to potential clients and trying to get them to call you, changing phone numbers or e-mail addresses is like hiding from your clients. Recently I got an e-mail from a real estate photographer telling me that his e-mail [...]

TourBuzz.net announced two new features for their tours recently: Canadian Address Support – You can now use TourBuzz in Canada Customizable Map Location – TourBuzz now shows you where the property is on the map. If it’s mapped in the wrong place or can’t be found, you can drag the marker to the correct position.

eSiteTours.com is a full service tour company in Bellevue, WA that launched at the end of 2007. I did a post on eSiteTours.com when they launched. eSiteTours specializes in HDR images for both their 360s and still shots. Matt Edington is one of the eSiteTours founders and currently does all their HDR processing. Recently Matt [...]

This month I’ve selected David Palermo as the PFRE photographer of the month. I’ve admired David’s work for some time now. I first noticed David’s stunning cockpit photos that he shot at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. These images caught my attention because shortly before I first saw David’s cockpit photography I’d done [...]

This Beta version is it seems to me unusually “uncooked” to me. Even though Lightroom product managers say not, I think Adobe rushed out this Beta to reveal the cool things they have in the pipeline and counter Apple’s recent release of Aperture. Michael Clark over at Inside Lightroom has a good summary of the [...]