Photography For Real Estate

I got a call for help today from Karl who will be shooting a large 130 room mountain lodge in Arizona next week. Karl says he has a couple of strobes and remote triggers but no umbrellas. He’ll be shooting Sunday through Thursday and would like to have some suggestions “particularly on lighting/possible placements and [...]

Early in April 2009 HDRsoft released a Aperture Edit Plug-in for Photomatix-like tonemapping. For now it doesn’t have blending but they say they will add the blending functionality to a future release of the plug-in. They say that they have no current plans to offer batch processing in the plug-in because of the fact that [...]

I believe anyone doing real estate photography that doesn’t also have a real estate flyer, postcard, brochure and online tour product is missing an opportunity to add profit to a shoot. Listing agents need a flyer for each property they list. Most will mail between 100 and 300 postcards to the neighborhood where the listing [...]

David Hobby, over at strobist.com, gives a great example of how to put together a nice little no cost property site using the free blogs anyone can get at blogger.com. You can get similar blogs at wordpress.com for free. Wow, I hope David’s listing agent appreciates what a fantastic client she has. I’ve never seen [...]

My wife Levi just spent a couple days analyzing the closed sales, Pending sales and active listings in a Seattle Eastside neighborhood (in Issaquah) where she is going to have a listing come on the market soon. Her assessment is that the market in Issaquah is the best it’s been for quite a long time. [...]

Last week the Tourbuzz.com guys (Alan Pristein and Paul Rodman) announced that their new Flash player is in beta. I think the new, low profile, hide-able thumbnail controller bar is a great addition. Here is what the new player looks like. They’ve been polling users to see what people think about removing the older style [...]

I just stumbled across the list of online photographic classes at Kelby Training and wanted to pass it on to those of you that have not seen it. There are online photographic classes by Joe McNally, John P. Caponigro, Vincent Versace, Moose Peterson, David Ziser an many others as well as Photoshop and Lightroom classes by [...]

Yesterday while working with Dale, who purchased my Business of Real Estate Photography e-book, and was trying to use the branding box HTML that is in the book, I discovered that the newest 1.4 version of Slideshow Pro for Lightroom broke my branding box HTML code. This is the trouble with writing HTML for someone [...]

Today Nikon announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED lens with built-in Silent Wave Motor (SWM) for Nikon DX-format digital SLR cameras. Compact and lightweight, this ultra wide-angle 2.4x zoom DX NIKKOR features a focal length range of 10 to 24mm, whose picture angle of 109°-61° is equivalent to a focal length of [...]

While I don’t think compact cameras are ideal for shooting real estate I know there are Realtors out there trying to shoot acceptable photos with the absolute minimum cost so I won’t be an equipment snob. Fact is, I used a Nikon CoolPix-995 with a wide-angle converter for several years and thought it was the [...]