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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
July 2nd, 2008
A number of weeks ago Thomas Grubba did a tutorial in the PFRE flickr discussion group on how to control the quality of light. I think Thomas’s tutorial is a significant and is worth highlighting. Thomas discusses four different qualities of light created by the Stofen diffuser cap, wide-angle diffusers and no diffuser at all.
