Photography For Real Estate

In the process of working on a chapter of my e-book covering interior composition I came across a couple of shots of a little condo we sold last year that nicely illustrates the pros and cons of a three wall shot compared to a two wall shot.
The upper shot on the right, is effectively a [...]

Check out David Gibbons’s example, over at geekestateblog.com, of a time lapse video of Elliott bay in Seattle, that he shot with his D70, PowerBook G4, Nikon Capture.
What a great idea! I’m thinking that Canon shooters should be able to do this same thing with Canon’s RemoteCapture software. I’m going to try this out with [...]

Animoto is a site that will automatically create an animated video with music, created from a series of still photos. Last year at this time when the company started I created a couple of videos. One from as series of my real estate front shots and one of my grandson Avery. The one of Avery [...]

It’s getting harder and harder to avoid the subject of video in real estate photography these days. Unless you’ve been under a rock you’ll notice that the subject of web based video keeps popping up all over:

New DSLRs with HD video capability.
The central role of  video editing in Adobe’s CS4 release event. Adobe says, “end [...]

Seems like I just bought and upgrade to Photoshop. Yea, I looked it up and it was just 19 months ago that I bought PS CS3. It’s probably not worth paying $199 to upgrade every 18 months but I have something to admit: I’m hooked. I can’t live without the latest and greatest version of [...]

I’ve added a camera page similar to the lenses page. It shows as “cameras” in the links along the top of the header image.
The lenses page has been hugely popular. Only the real estate directory page gets more traffic. The purpose of this page is to summarize all the current DSLR camera bodies. I use [...]

I just got finished converting all the screen capture videos that I have on the PFRE tutorial page from youtube videos to vimeo videos. This makes the tutorials much higher quality because vimeo is HD capable and if you click on the full screen control in the lower right corner as illustrated in the photo [...]

Canon just released the specs on the new 5D Mk II. Dpreview.com also has a more in depth look up on their site. I haven’t had time to study this but it appears that for $2700 USD you get more than what you had to shell out $7900 USD for, yesterday at this time.
This reinforces [...]

LA Times Axes Weekly Real Estate Section: via Inman.com Aug 4, 2008 – Not a big surprise here, just continuing evidence that real estate is moving completely to the web. Newspapers around the country are realizing that their most important products are their web sites. This has been obvious for sometime but the soft economy [...]

This months PFRE Idol entries contest entries are ready for voting. Another set of great real estate images! For a full screen slide show of these entries click here.
To recap the voting procedure, to vote you need to register here.  If you registered to vote last month you don’t have to register again, just go [...]

Back in June a friend from Australia showed me a video tour done by Brett Clements of Propvid. This last week while searching for a way to improve the quality of my screen capture videos I stumbled across Brett’s HD videos on Vimeo.com. Brett’s video work is stunning and vimeo.com provides a stunning platform for [...]

I’ve posted a Lightroom Enfuse video that shows some basics of using Tim Armes LR/Enfuse from Lightroom 2.What I wanted to demonstrate with this screen capture video is how to do the same thing as my Sky Masking Video shows with a lot less work. I think the results are better with Enfuse. After you [...]

It’s always enlightening to see the search strings that bring people to your web site. In looking at the PFRE blog stats I’ve noticed that even though the majority of the search strings that bring people to PFRE is the search string “real estate photography” there are also a many, more targeted strings, like “real [...]

Microsoft’s Photosynth technology has been on the street for several weeks now. I like the way it stitches a series of still images together to form a 360 like panning view. It’s kind of like the Photoshop Photomerge on steroids. I think this concept has great potential but is is far from ready for prime [...]

Photokina, the mammoth photo equipment show held every 2 years in Cologne, Germany is coming up September 23 through 28. So every company that makes anything to do with photography times many of their new product announcements so they can show them off at Photokina. If you were thinking of purchasing equipment it makes sense [...]