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 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 [...]
March 9th, 2009
Sylvia Guardia described a technique to me that she and others are using to get the best of both flash lighting and HDR. The image on the right (actually the first two images in her Spa Hilton Papagayo series) was made by shooting 3 HDR shots with a flash. Then after processing the the 3 [...]
