May 31st, 2009
As many of you know I’m a big fan of Brett Clements’ work (see his profile on mediaman.com.au). I did a post on Brett’s work last Sept. Brett’s company is Propvid.tv but the HD videos don’t seem to run off his site as well as the ones he has on Vimeo.com.
I was talking to Allan [...]
May 27th, 2009
According to Dpreview.com, “Canon has announced a firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR enabling manual exposure when shooting videos. With the updated version, users will be able to manually adjust the shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings in the video mode. The new firmware will be available for download on 2 [...]
May 27th, 2009
Mathew Campagna’s lightroom.theturninggate.net site is a great resource for anyone interested in creating innovative slide shows from Lightroom. Mathew has written a number of Lightroom slide show templates and Lightroom template code that give Lightroom users access to slide shows like Monoslideshow, Postcard viewer and many other slide shows.
Mathew’s latest effort is TTG Highside Gallery [...]
May 25th, 2009
Here’s the basic contradiction:
You are shooting photographs for a real estate agent to use to market a home on the Internet.
To do a good job of marketing a home on the Internet the agent and their broker must syndicate the listing information and photos to real estate portal sites.
Syndicating to real estate portal sites means [...]
May 24th, 2009
I spent all day Friday in Portland, OR at Scott Kelby’s Lightroom Live Workshop. Awesome workshop! Scott is the consummate performer and always puts on a great workshop. I’ve never been disappointed in Scott’s workshops and highly recommend this workshop for any one that uses Lightroom. There is plenty of “meat” for beginners and experts. [...]
May 18th, 2009
In the past few months I’ve gotten several questions about how to “Embed” Slideshow Pro slide shows that are created with Lightroom. The questions were:
Is it possible to embed a Slideshow Pro slide show in e-mail?
What is the HTML required to embed Slideshow Pro slide shows into a website at Apple’s me.com?
May 18th, 2009
There is a new bunch of great looking PFRE Idol images to vote on for this month. See the images to vote on in the PFRE flickr group discussion. Cast your vote here through May 31. The PFRE Idol rules are here. Not valid where prohibited law.
May 17th, 2009
WARNING – I am an analytical and very organised person. Some of this may bore the flighty “see how it goes, she’ll be right mate” type of people!!! But hey..if you only get one good idea out of this, it’s worth a read!
Taking the Order, Recording Requests
I use a 10 column hard cover ledger book [...]
May 16th, 2009
Scott Bourne has a insightful post over at photofocus.com that I think real estate photographers will be interested in.
Scott poses and answers this question: ” In the worst economy I can remember, one company is pulling away from the pack in a big way. In a quarter where Microsoft posted its first revenue decline in [...]
May 14th, 2009
I wanted to give everyone an update on what I’m doing with my real estate photography e-books.
First of all, after offering a hard copy version of the Photography For Real Estate e-book for the last three months, I’ve decided to discontinue hard copy completely and only do electronic distribution from now on. Hardly anyone is [...]
May 12th, 2009
A little shameless horn tooting is in order here! Invesp consulting implemented a new blog rank tracking system last week that uses Google and Alexis ranking, Yahoo’s count of incoming links, social site ranking and some secret sauce to come up with a blog ranking is various subject areas, and guess who comes out ranked [...]
May 11th, 2009
First of all I want to thank AndyAnderson76541 for letting me talk about his photo in this post. I’ve been admiring the look of the HDR shots that Andy shoots from his pole with a Panasonic Lumix LX3. I’ve also been giving him a bad time about having cars in the driveway. Like his original [...]
May 11th, 2009
Ever since I started using a MacBook Pro, a couple of years ago, I’ve used an external monitor and keyboard but kept the laptop closed a ways away from the external monitor. But after reading Brandon Oelling’s post this weekend on digital-photography-school.com I decided to use the MacBook Pro as a second monitor and try [...]
May 8th, 2009
Tourbuzz Full Browser Mode: I pointed out earlier that Tourbuzz was doing some updates to their tour product. In the final release they have a new feature I really like. They call it “full browser” mode. Very cool! They essentially remove all the branding stuff and make the photos fill up the whole browser window [...]
May 5th, 2009
I had a request to do an article on shooting twilight exterior architectural photos. I realized that I’ve never written a complete summary of the process of shooting a exterior twilight shot.
First of all, doing a twilight shoot is almost always a special trip so most real estate photographers list a separate price for doing [...]
