May 12th, 2008
Anyone who has been active in the PFRE photo discussion group recently has seen Jeremy’s Esland’s work and and seen all the constructive help and advice that Jeremy gives. Jeremy is a real estate photographer that works out of Algarve, Portugal and is my pick for the May PFRE real estate photographer of the month. […]
May 11th, 2008
Have you noticed that most real estate agents are frantic to get the photos from a shoot. Do you understand why?
Here are the underlying reasons that listing agents need the photos ASAP:
It’s foolish to shoot photos before seller signs listing agreement: Until an agent has a signed listing agreement the seller isn’t committed to list […]
May 9th, 2008
As a small business owner you want to do everything you can to project a professional appearance. Your e-mail address that your clients see is one way of projecting that professional appearance.For example, the email address john@doephotography.com projects a more professional appearance than john341@yahoo.com. How do you get a professional looking e-mail?
Buy a domain name […]
May 7th, 2008
Doug Cranmer in Chicago gave me some details of his recent success with his listing in the PFRE Real Estate Photographer Directory. Doug says:
“I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that my investment in the PFRE Real Estate Photographer Directory paid off very well. A Chicago Realtor did a Google […]
May 7th, 2008
Back in January of this year we asked for you help in finding a marrow donor for Realtor Scott Kleiman. Susanne Hayek just reported that a donor has been found for Scott. Susanne says:
A donor for Scott has been found! All we know is that she is a young (20 something) woman from overseas. She […]
May 6th, 2008
I get asked this question all the time and there are an amazing number of Google searches this site catches with these question as the search term.
Of coarse there is no simple answer. The answer depends on your budget and what kind of DSLR body you have. I use to have a real estate camera […]
May 5th, 2008
The plugin I use to display the most recent photos posted to the PFRE flickr group broke for no apparent reason so I’ve had to change to a slightly different plugin. As a result when you click on one of the photos it displays that photo instead of the whole PFRE flickr photo-stream as before. […]
May 4th, 2008
This afternoon Scott Hargis, Thomas Grubba, Ron Kenny and I had a telecon to discuss the next steps in putting on workshops similar to the PFRE Seattle workshop we had in Seattle on April 25.
During the telecon we made the following decisions:
May 2nd, 2008
Since we are on the subject of lighting I’ll point out one of the classic books books on lighting. This is one of those books that you will keep coming back to again and again. I first became aware of it a year or so ago from reading strobist.com because David referred to it as […]
May 1st, 2008
I want talk about lighting choices for real estate photography. Lighting is probably the biggest challenge for those starting out in real estate photography. There isn’t any one right way to light interiors. I’ve seen beautiful images made with each of these techniques. What I see and hear after talking to hundreds of real estate […]
