August 31st, 2008
A couple of weeks ago a reader was lamenting the difficulties he was having with agents canceling shoots or rescheduling at the last minute and asked me if he should enforce 24 hour cancellation policy. Scheduling shoots with real estate agents has got to be one of the most challenging and irritating parts of real [...]
August 28th, 2008
Because there have been several times this year that I couldn’t get up to Issaquah to shoot my wife Levi’s listings, Levi hired various real estate photographers in the Seattle area too shoot some of her listings. Being able to observe the whole process of hiring and getting results from real estate photographers from the [...]
August 26th, 2008
I’ve been working hard this summer on the second edition of my Photography For Real Estate e-book. I’m going to make several improvements in both the content and the way I distribute this e-book:
August 22nd, 2008
In real estate photography there’s one shot that is as important as all the others put together. It’s also called the primary exterior shot. Most MLS’s require it to be an exterior shot. It’s the shot that grabs the buyers attention and motivates them to look at the home in more detail.
August 20th, 2008
I’m working hard on the second edition of my Photography For Real Estate e-book. I’m adding several new chapters and updating several of the existing ones. One new chapter will be on the process of shooting 360 images for real estate. (Everyone that has purchased the first edition will get a free copy of the [...]
August 17th, 2008
Here are some recent news links of interest to real estate photographers: Photojojo.com has a post on putting a point and shoot on a painters pole. This is very similar to the one I did recently on the same subject but I like their suggestion of using a small light ball head on the top [...]
August 14th, 2008
Today a reader asked me for statistics that demonstrate that good marketing photography pays off. The exact wording was, “Do you have any statistics on the benefit of hiring a real estate photographer (i.e. home with professional photos sell X% faster)…I’m looking for anything to back up why a homeowner would want to use professional [...]
August 13th, 2008
Yesterday I was standing in a line (with my G9 in my pocket) listening to a recent TWIP podcast in which Alex Lindsay and Stu Maschwitz were talking about the two latest G9 contenders just announced. I’ll spare you another rant about my Canon G9 but a fact that hasn’t escaped camera manufacturers is that [...]
August 11th, 2008
See, I predicted yesterday that since the print media is cratering that all these unemployed print media photographers would be moving into real estate photography and this morning I wake up to a post by David Hobby on real estate photography. What can I say. Seriously, David has a wonderful series of real estate shots [...]
August 10th, 2008
Vincent Laforet, a Pulitzer prize-winning staff photographer for the NY Times, sums up the situation going on now in photography as follows: “This past year has been one of the roughest years for the newspaper and magazine industry — and the truth be told — the outlook for the next few years looks even grimmer” [...]
