Photography For Real Estate

There are a couple of good resources that have come to my attention recently over at the Association of Media Photographers site recently. The first is the Strictly Business Blog. This blog has a constant stream of great photography business information on it. Just one example is this video on negotiation from a post back [...]

A couple of months ago there was an outstanding thread in the PFRE Discussion group discussing various approaches on how to get clean whites when shooting HDR. This thread caught my attention because getting clean whites when shooting HDR is a classic problem that many beginning real estate  photographers struggle with. fuzzybabybunny:) starts out the [...]

I want to point out a change to the blog that may not be all that obvious. At the bottom of each post there’s a line of text that says, “Share and Enjoy“. Under that text is a line of little icons and links for posting to social networking sites. The icons are a little [...]

Back in September I wrote a post about ReMask, a masking plugin by Topaz. Topaz just released a Beta of a new improved version of ReMask that’s called ReMask2. This new version is pretty amazing! It’s very intuitive to use, fast, and best of all it does a fantastic job of quickly knocking out skies [...]

I want to point out the valuable service that Scott Hargis is providing over at his blog. Scott is reviewing real estate photography portfolios. For any one that requests a review, he makes 30 minute video stepping through your portfolio (website) giving a detailed discussion of what he likes and doesn’t like about your portfolio. [...]

A readers recent question about providing floor plans made me realize that I’ve never done a post on the subject of floor plans. First of all floor plans are one of those services like flyers. Some  real estate photographers don’t want to do fool around with doing graphics work. On the other hand if you [...]

Scott Hargis’s Brisbane & Màlaga Lighting Workshops: Yesterday Scott announced that he is doing a lighting workshop in Màlaga, Spain and one in Brisbane, Australia. There are only 8 seats in each class so you’ll need to move fast to signup before they are full. Get all the details and signup at Scott’s workshop site. [...]

I was delighted to see that the Julius Shulman Film, Visual Acoustics, is finally coming to an art theatre near me in Portland, OR next month. If it’s showing in Portland it’s got to be playing everywhere! If you are not familiar with Julius Shulman, check out some of the previous posts that I’ve done [...]

I’m a little late in posting today because besides caulking my windows for the winter, I’ve been trying to think of some way I can help stimulate the real estate photographer profession. Why? Because this morning Fed Chairman Bernanke came clean and admitted that unemployment will get worse before it gets better. I decided what [...]

Recently WelcomeMat released a report on video usage in real estate. Among other things it reports that real estate video usage was up 95% in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. I think the report should more clearly state that the data from this report is from the WelcomeMat [...]