March 31st, 2009
I first discovered the Atticfire site and did a post on it back in Oct of 2007. Since that time participants in the PFRE discussion group managed to reverse engineer how the Atticfire team creates the dramatic effect in their images. Because back in 2007 I pestered Eric Prine to tell me what they were [...]
March 30th, 2009
Long time PFRE reader and Seattle Eastside Realtor, Tony Meier is breaking new ground by doing his own video tours. Tony showed me this video tour that he’d shot with his Canon 5D MkII, 17-40mm lens, one meter slide and 501HDV panning head. Tony is understandably proud of this tour. I think he did a [...]
March 30th, 2009
I’ve been talking to Mika Seppala , a Finnish tour provider that’s looking for one or more partners in the United States, Canada and other countries to develop and market this kind of Monoslideshow like tour. Mika calls his tours ShowAdd. Here’s Mika’s description of the product and what he is looking for: ShowAdd ShowAdd [...]
March 28th, 2009
My friend Jennifer who is a Realtor in Seattle sent me this TV clip from KPIX Channel 5 in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. This is the first positive story I’ve seen about the real estate market for a long time. Trends frequently start in California for whatever reason so this is encouraging. I’ll [...]
March 27th, 2009
Wow! Ugly day today grubbing around in in DNS zone files, talking to web hosting tech support and doing a lot of swearing. Now that I’ve had a glass of wine and my blood pressure is back down I can talk about it without swearing. Long and short of it is that PFRE cannot be [...]
March 26th, 2009
I am pleased with how smoothly my preparations have been going to move this blog to Squarespace. So tomorrow (Fri 3/27) I’m going make the final move. After I point the domain name photographyforrealestate.net to the Squarespace servers it will take from 24 to 48 hours for that update to be propagated to all the [...]
March 26th, 2009
Thanks to Clark Dugger for pointing out that National Public Radio had a wonderful little piece on Morning Edition recently on Julius Shulman. You can listen to the whole story by just clicking on the “Listen now” link. I love the quote by Shondell Spiegel who hired Shulman to come shoot her home. She characterizes [...]
March 25th, 2009
If you are anything like me, 99% of my creative work in the last 10 years is bits spinning on hard drives. Once or twice a year when one of my drives fail a surge of adrenaline gets me more in touch with how important managing my digital live is. Not paying close attention to [...]
March 25th, 2009
Update: Here is the DPreview preview. Here is the complete text of the Canon announcement: LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 25, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today introduced a new addition to its Rebel lineup, the EOS Rebel T1i Digital SLR camera, the first in the Rebel line to feature Full [...]
March 23rd, 2009
Does the PFRE blog and flickr group and related training items create too much competition in real estate photography by helping new real estate photographers get started? Several times in the last year I’ve encountered established professional architectural photographers that are critical of helping new real estate photographers get started. Does having more people that [...]
March 23rd, 2009
As Vince de Sefano, of Dingley, AU describes in his blog post, there are two basic kinds of PAP (Pol Aerial Photography) systems: A point and shoot mounted on a fiberglass or aluminum pole. A pneumatic mast that mounts on a vehicle. There are some off-the-shelf systems of the second type but they cost in [...]
March 20th, 2009
It seems like there have been a lot of news of interest to real estate photographers in the last few weeks: HDRsoft releases new Lightroom Export plugin: The new plugin allows the results of your Photomatix processing to be automatically re-imported back into Lightroom if you want. Or not, if you don’t want. Thanks HDRsoft!
March 19th, 2009
What do floor plans have to do with real estate photography? I know many of you will be saying nothing! This last week I talked to two readers who are real estate photographers and offer floor plans as an add-on product to a home shoot. Bjarne Haug (‘Kris’) showed me his 2D and 3D floor [...]
March 17th, 2009
The Sigma 10-20mm has been long been a popular lens for real estate photographers. I just noticed that Tamron announced the Tamron SP AF 10-24mm F3.5-4.5 Di II LD Aspherical last year at Photokina 2008. This announcement slipped right by me at the time. The price/quality point of the Sigma 10-20 and Tamron 10-24 is [...]
March 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 Mar 31. The PFRE Idol rules are here. Not valid where prohibited law.
March 15th, 2009
Today while following a thread in the PFRE flickr discussion group about virtual tours I noticed a link that Fred Light has on his site to an article titled “Sell Your Home With Video Tours” and a video clip from a recent episode of ABC’s Good Morning America. The message of the article is: 360 [...]
March 12th, 2009
Sean McCormack recently released version 2.0 of his LRB Portfolio which is a slide show template for Lightroom that allows you to create a complete portfolio website with a Home, About, Mail and Contact page and up to six photo galleries. Here is an example of the kind of site the LRB Portfolio will build.
March 12th, 2009
VISUAL ACOUSTICS, the documentary film on Julius Shulman, is slated for a 2009 summer-fall theatrical release by Arthouse Films. The DVD release should come in late 2009 or early 2010. Arthouse, which describes itself as the place “where art and films collide,” is an independent production and distribution label specializing in films that showcase art [...]
March 11th, 2009
Last month PocketWizard announced the MiniTT1 and FlexTT5. The significance to real estate photographers is that before these two new products using neither Canon’s E-TTL II or Nikon’s i-TTL CLS automatic flash controls was not very practical because the range of both of these infrared triggering systems was too limited for shooting real estate. These [...]
March 10th, 2009
Thanks to Sabrina Huang for pointing out that Inman News is having a real estate photo contest. Here is an opportunity to pick up a $200 Amazon.com gift and some great Realtor exposure. Many top Realtors read Inman News so PFRE photographers and PFRE Idols especially, get out there and get some exposure! You people [...]
