Photography For Real Estate

This post is for Enkay, a reader that asked me to go through  basic shooting considerations and post processing workflow. Great idea, I written about shooting and workflow for a while. Here are the things I do when shooting:

I upgraded to Lightroom 2 yesterday like the photo-editing geek I am. I can’t resist a new version of Photoshop or Lightroom. The upgrade was fast and painless for me. Lightroom 2 rebuilds  existing catalogs. It is now more drive aware, allowing a catalog to have photos on multiple drives. I like this feature since [...]

I’ve made several updates to the listing of real estate photography lenses (click on the “lenses” button above the blog header image): I’ve put the slrgear.com lens quality rating in the middle column and sorted each lens type section by this quality rating. This makes the highest quality lenses at the top of each section. [...]

I’m back home from an relaxing week of family reunion activities. Turns out the location we choose for this years get together, Mt Shasta, CA, was clouded all week (and still is) in smoke from the hundreds of forest fires raging in California. I managed to catch one shot of Shasta when the smoke cleared [...]

Due to a fantastic response, Scott and Thomas’s lighting workshop on August 2nd has been filled. They have received enough inquires to potentially organize an additional workshop on Sunday, August 3rd.  Please let Thomas know (thomas@tgrubbaphoto.com) ASAP if you would be interested in attending the Sunday workshop.

Thanks to reader “mjdwilson” for passing along the link to this site on the Documentary film on 97 year old Julius Shulman. Shulman is considered by most the greatest Architectural photographer. Hopefully this film will be available soon on DVD. If you are interested in Shulman see the March post featuring PFRE reader David Palermo’s [...]

I’m going to a family reunion next week in Southern Oregon near Mt Shasta. I’m not sure what kind of Internet connections I’ll find. I think I’ll be able to answer e-mail most every day since Google maps says there are internet cafe’s in the area but not sure how much I’ll be posting. I [...]

Sabrina Huang, a San Jose, CA Realtor that I met at the PFRE Seattle Workshop last April pointed out that I shouldn’t excluding point-and-shoot from my review of real estate cameras. She’s right, today’s point-and-shoot cameras are pretty amazing. I haven’t mentioned them because the majority of readers of this blog are professional photographers and [...]

Last week after I did a post on THE Best Lens/Body combination for real estate photography I got questions and comments like, “What if you don’t have a $4,500 budget… whats the best low-end combination?” Well, here’s my thinking on the low end choices:

Chicago, June 12, 2008 — VHT, Inc., a leading provider of visual marketing services, has released the results of its exclusive survey of agents‘ and brokers’ marketing activities. With more than 1,300 respondents, the survey provides a national, look at how real estate professionals, in the US, allocate marketing dollars for print, television, direct mail [...]