July 29th, 2009
It’s been pretty clear to me for a long while that the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED ultra-wide lens is something real special. I got a chance to shoot with one at the Seattle PFRE workshop in April of 2008 for a short while and the review site I link to on the lenses page [...]
July 28th, 2009
Last week, Rusty Freeman passed along a link to this site that has some nice replacement skies. I’ve added it to the Resource page.
While on the subject of replacing skies it’s worth while bringing up the subject of how to do the replacement. As with anything in Photoshop there are many ways to select just [...]
July 26th, 2009
As a follow-up to the recent post on making DVD for Realtors, John Grow sent me this example of a continuous video that he created for an open house. John says:
It was run as a continuous video on a big screen in the home during the open house. We made 5 identical shows on the [...]
July 25th, 2009
Back in January I did a post on a sweet little iPhone application to help you find out where the sun or moon is at any given time in any geographic location.
Well here’s another iPhone app that takes sun calculation to a completely new level. Unfortunately the price is a whole new level too. This [...]
July 22nd, 2009
This success story is just too good not to pass along to readers! Rusty Freeman (Rusty@Studio ZZZ in the PFRE flickr group) is a studio photographer that works in the LA area and recently got into real estate photography. Rusty is a regular blog reader and purchased both of my e-books and has been following [...]
July 21st, 2009
I was talking to Lee Jinks yesterday about his struggles deciding whether to purchase a Canon T1i or a Nikon D5000. I can appreciate his difficulty. These cameras are very close in specs. If you don’t have a backpack full of glass collected over years and you have to make your decision based on the [...]
July 20th, 2009
Washington State expanding sales tax to digital products on 7/26/2009: Mike Martin sent me a link to some new sales tax rules announced by the Washington State Department of Revenue. To me this looks like Washington real estate photographers will now have to charge sales tax even if they don’t supply their client with a [...]
July 19th, 2009
For many years I created little mini CDs with the tour of homes we listed on them for the buyers and sellers. Most sellers loved to get a copy of the virtual tour we used to sell their home as a keepsake of their home and occasionally buyers would ask for a copy as well. [...]
July 17th, 2009
Andy Westlake over at Dpreview.com reviewed the new Canon TS-E 24mm F3.5 LII that was announced at PMA 2009.
Andy concludes that: “The Canon TS-E 24mm F3.5 L II is a lens which, given its price, has high expectations to meet. The good news is that, in almost all respects, it succeeds – the build quality [...]
July 16th, 2009
LA Times, July 16, 2009: Julius Shulman, whose luminous photographs of homes and buildings brought fame to a number of mid-20th century Modernist architects and made him a household name in the architectural world, died Wednesday night. He was 98.
Shulman is considered by most to be one of the greatest Architectural photographers of our time. [...]
July 15th, 2009
While cleaning up the blog I ran across the summary of a series of posts and discussions from two years ago on the subject of ethics. Two years ago this was a fairly heated discussion with opinions all over the map so what I did was attempt to summarize the general consensus of how readers [...]
July 14th, 2009
Today HDRsoft announced Photomatix Pro version 3.2. This upgrade is available for download from:
http://www.hdrsoft.com/download/win.html (Windows)
http://www.hdrsoft.com/download/mac.html (Mac)
The main updates in version 3.2 are:
July 12th, 2009
Marketing is all about getting attention. The front shot of your real estate marketing photos are much like a fishing lure. Fishing lures are iridescent, bright and shiny so they stand out in a background where everything looks that same. Giving your marketing photos, especially your front shot, some punch is a good way to [...]
July 10th, 2009
I’ve decided to make a blog page for the Realtor’s guide. Due to reader suggestions I now have three versions for the Realtor’s Guide for Using Photos:
The original version with some editing thanks to John McBay. This file was created with Smallest Size parameters so it would be small (108K).
The same version as #1 except [...]
July 8th, 2009
Here are some links that I think would be useful for real estate Photographers:
Lightroom, Photomatix, and the Single-shot HDR- Here are a couple of videos (almost 50 minutes of video) on the details of using HDR by Ben Wilmore. Even though the content he’s using to demonstrate isn’t real estate the principles are the [...]
