February 27th, 2009
I just noticed that digitalphotopro.com has an article by John Paul Caponigro titled “Aesthetics Of XDR – Using Extended Dynamic Range techniques judiciously will keep you from taking a good thing too far“. In addition to the article above, JP has been doing a series on what he calls XDR for a while. Here are [...]
February 26th, 2009
There’s a post on gizmodo.com today that is a pretty good argument on why you want to pay the most attention to your lens than any other part of your equipment. In the article they link to a youtube video that is a great description on how lenses are manufactured.
This is why I think real [...]
February 24th, 2009
Dan Achatz’s recent discussion thread in the PFRE discussion group was very insightful for me. Dan sounds like he is struggling to keep the sensor of his new Canon 5D Mk II free of dust. I feel his pain. I’ve fought the “dust on the sensor” battle since 2003 when I got my 1Ds. For [...]
February 23rd, 2009
Last week Canon announced two new magnificent looking tilt and shift lenses. The the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II and the TS-E 17mm f/4L. Nikon calls these kind of lenses “perspective correction” lenses. What ever you call them, these lenses are designed for architectural photography because they do two things that architectural photographers want to do:
Keep [...]
February 19th, 2009
I’d like to announce the availability of the PFRE Classifieds. Michael Asgian has done it again. He’s built a PFRE Classifieds page where PFRE community members can list items for sale. It has the following features:
Users can submit their own ads for free
Upload up to 3 images for each ad
Auto creation of thumbnails during image [...]
February 18th, 2009
One of the most important parts of building a successful business as a real estate photographer is being able quickly and clearly communicate why photography is important to selling real estate. I know, this is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer. But if you’ve talked to Realtors you will find that only the top [...]
February 16th, 2009
There is a new bunch of great looking PFRE Idol images to vote on for this month. See the 10 images to vote on in the PFRE flickr group discussion. Cast your vote here through Feb 28. The PFRE Idol rules are here. Not valid where prohibited law.
February 16th, 2009
Thanks to reader Drew King for passing this along:
A Los Angeles photographer is suing the owners of OK! magazine for publishing pictures he took of Britney Spears’ former home without his permission.
Brian Jones claims he was hired by real estate firm Coldwell Banker to take pictures of a Los Angeles mansion that was on the [...]
February 15th, 2009
After some recent discussions with readers, I’ve come to realize that I’ve never done a post that covers the whole process of learning to do real estate photography. I’ve done posts on nearly every aspect of getting started but I’ve never tied it together. Here is a macro level look at the steps with links [...]
February 11th, 2009
In the process of helping many of my e-book subscribers figure out why the didn’t get the download link e-mail for their latest PFRE e-book update I’ve discovered that there may be a fair number of blog readers out there that don’t get all the e-mail that is sent to them. I encountered another similar [...]
February 9th, 2009
I’ve decided to test the demand for a hard copy version of my Photography For Real Estate book. Up to this time it’s only been available in e-book form.
I’ve known for a while that many people would rather read a book the traditional way and not have to print the book themselves to do so. [...]
February 7th, 2009
At the request of directory customers I’ve created two new types of REP directory entries:
A premium directory entry: Back in October Vicaso asked to buy a special directory entry at the top instead of having a directory entry for each office. So the help of the Vicaso I came up with the premium directory entry. [...]
February 6th, 2009
Because Scott Hargis’s post back in 2007 is so popular and it only mentions Cactus strobe triggers I want talk more triggering multiple strobes.
In the context of shooting real estate there are three practical alternatives for triggering multiple strobes. See this video for a good summary of strobe lighting basics:
February 3rd, 2009
Recently I discovered phanfare.com, a photosharing site that has pretty nice Flash slide shows. I ran across the site because Michael Burke of naturalight.us uses a phanfare slide show for his Architectural photo gallery.
I like this slide show format because the photos are LARGE. The are as big as your browser screen and have a [...]
February 2nd, 2009
I just sent out download links to all Photography For Real Estate e-book subscribers. The download links were sent to the same e-mail addresses that were used to originally order the e-book.
Subscribers that come to me with a sob story that they didn’t get a update e-mail with a new download link better expect to [...]
