October 31st, 2008
I did a post on the new Julius Shulman film by Eric Bricker back in July but I want to point it out again because the film is being shown a independent film festivals and the site promoting the film (www.juliusshulmanfilm.com ) has been expanded a lot since July. There is now a trailer of [...]
October 30th, 2008
Beginning real estate photographers that are Mac users face a fundamental decision. Do you use Lightroom or do you use Aperture? While talking to such a real estate photographer this week I realized that for Mac user starting out as a photographer this decision is not that easy.
First of all I need to disclose my [...]
October 27th, 2008
I just finished sending out download links to everyone that has purchased my Photography For Real Estate e-book. If you purchased the e-book and didn’t get a download link for the update look in your e-mail spam folder. The download mailing list is automatic so everyone that has ever paid for a e-book was sent [...]
October 26th, 2008
HDR and blending with Photomatix may be one of the most cost and time effective shooting techniques for real estate photographers because it allows shooting interiors without lighting equipment. It can minimize the amount of time spent on site with the trade off of spending a little more time doing post processing.
At the same time, [...]
October 24th, 2008
Today the final version of Photomatix 3.1 and the companion Lightroom Plugin was released. The new features in 3.1 are:
New settings for blending method ‘H&S – Adjust’
Option for automatic reduction of chromatic aberrations in HDR images
Option for reducing noise in HDR images
Settings of Details Enhancer dialog grouped in expandable views
Alignment method “By matching features” made [...]
October 22nd, 2008
Kim Perina of Scottsdale, AZ pointed out a recent article in the The Arizona Republic about real estate photographer Andrew Beneze who according to the article, “… turned his back on his cushy corporate job when he and his wife opened Next Edge Video out of their home in Goodyear’s Estrella community.
Their company isn’t even [...]
October 21st, 2008
When you are shooting a home with a view, there’s nothing more important to the home owners and listing agent than seeing stunning view through the windows. You want to make the windows look like someone took out the glass!
From a photo editing standpoint what you’d like is have complete control of the interior and [...]
October 20th, 2008
I quit my Photoshop 12 step program and have been using Photoshop CS4 since last Wed (10/15). This version Adobe has a download distribution so PS addicts don’t have to wait for the mail system to get our updates.
The big question is CS4 worth $199 to update? Well as I see it, there aren’t many [...]
October 19th, 2008
I’ve noticed an increasing interest it the topic of real estate photography pricing and increasing competition. I believe a major factor for this increasing interest is that in most large metropolitan areas the number of real estate photographers and, competition is increasing. The increase in real estate photographers is due to:
Barriers to entry in this [...]
October 16th, 2008
Orphan works bill wins a quiet victory in congress: Unfortunately, the orphan works bill is making progress. See Photo Attorney and ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com for more details. According to the ipaorphanworks blog, Google and Microsoft are behind the scenes promoting the orphan works bill.
Photo naming can provide Realtors some “Google Juice”: Eric Bryant gives some suggestions over [...]
October 14th, 2008
This months PFRE Idol entries contest entries are ready for your 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 any previous month you don’t have to register again, [...]
October 12th, 2008
Yesterday I got a question from a reader asking what I thought about using a link to his Smugmug site in the PFRE Real Estate Photographer Directory.
My response was: “I highly suggest that if you register for the REP directory that you have a real estate photography only site that has a portfolio of your [...]
October 9th, 2008
First of all I want to clarify my description, in yesterdays post, of how the round trip process between Lightroom and Photomatix 3.1Beta works. When you send a group of images from Lightroom to Photomatix 3.1Beta (using the new Photomatix export plugin) Photomatix 3.1Beta does have a feature that will re-import the final processed image [...]
October 8th, 2008
I’m glad to see that the 3.1 version of Photomatix has added a Lightroom export plugin. Photomatix 3.1 is still in Beta. I’ve been using the Beta 8 version of Photomatix for several days and I like being able to use Photomatix from Lightroom.
The only downside that I’ve found to the current export plugin is [...]
October 7th, 2008
The post I did last week on David Gibbons’s example of a time lapse video of a view inspired me research the subject of time lapse and do some time lapse video clips of my own.
Here is what I found out:
David described how to shoot time lapse with Nikon Capture, the same thing works just [...]
