Archive for July, 2008

Survey Shows How Much Agents Spend Per Listing

July 14th, 2008

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 […]

PangeaVR Viewer Brings 360 Tours to iPhone

July 13th, 2008

On Friday I managed to update my “old” iPhone to 2.0 software.  I think iPhone apps and the iTunes app store are the most significant feature of the recent Apple iPhone upgrade circus.
Since I’m a hopelessly addicted 360 image geek the first iPhone app I downloaded from the store was the PangeaVR 360 image viewer […]

Photo Modification Ethics For Real Estate Photography

July 11th, 2008

I ran across a wonderful little video about Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor who is doing research on how to algorithms for detecting altered photos. Hany is working with Adobe to make his algorithms for fake photo detection widely available.
It’s amazing to me how much photo modification is goes on in advertising but even more […]

THE Best Real Estate Photography Camera-Lens Combo

July 10th, 2008

Several days ago a reader asked me what THE best setup for shooting real estate would be. Until then I’d always been asked what the cheapest one was. At the Seattle Workshop in April I had a chance to shoot with a Nikon D3 and 14-24mm f2.8 for about 20 minutes. I could tell then […]

Getty Image Editors are Now Looking at Your Images on Flickr

July 9th, 2008

Apparently Getty Images and flickr.com have struck a deal and developed some tools for Getty Images editors to scan through flickr groups looking for photographic talent. If a photographer is chosen by Getty Image editors. According to the article on techcrunch.com, “Each selected member will have their images licensed through a special Flickr-branded section of […]

Use Aperture to Layout Postcards, Flyers and Brochures

July 8th, 2008

When Aperture 2.0 was released I was skeptical about the product. Mainly because I’d been on the Lightroom bandwagon for a while. However, for some reason I can’t explain I purchased a copy and have been using it more and more. It has some pretty amazing features and the more I use it the more […]

Introducing The PFRE Idol Award

July 7th, 2008

Think you have enough talent to be the next PFRE Idol? Now’s your chance to prove it! Check out details here. With the help and advice of many readers and PFRE flickr group members I’ve changed the photographer of the month award selection process to remove some of the objections to the last process. Thanks […]

Matthew Mallett Voted Real Estate Photographer For July

July 7th, 2008

Matthew Mallett of Melbourne, Australia has been voted the Real Estate Photographer of the month for July.Runners up were:

Tyra Pacheco
Linda Sabiston
Mike Ortega
Tim McEachern

New PTlens is A Natural Solution For Real Estate Photography

July 6th, 2008

If you are a Real Estate Photographer that uses Lightroom or Aperture what you need is an little application that interfaces with these two applications that will fix lens barrel distortion and converging verticals and doesn’t cost a bundle. PTlens has been close to filling this need for a long time. But the latest version […]

What Do You Think About Photographer of The Month

July 3rd, 2008

I’d like more feedback about how you feel about the current PFRE photographer of the month process. I’ve created a poll for you to give me feedback on the right side-bar below where the July nominees for photographer of the month are listed. Also feel free to send me e-mail on this subject. I want […]