Photography For Real Estate

This last week I talked to two real estate photographers that have built area listing sites designed to reach home sellers with the message that good photography helps to sell homes ( John Quarles in the Birmingham, AL area and Dan Abraham in the Prince George, BC area). Area listing sites list part or all [...]

If you watched Steve Jobs demonstrate the iPad Wednesday you may have noticed while he browsed through the New York Times there was little blue cube on the screen. This is what the iPhone operating system (the iPad uses iPhone OS) displays when it encounters a Flash component on a page. It’s saying, “I don’t [...]

For those that may not have noticed Jeremy Esland’s thread in the PFRE flickr group recently, I think it is worth posting here again. This before and after gallery is from ampimage.com. The owner of the site, Ashley Morrison, specializes in interior and hotel photography. Ashley works with Marie McMillen an interior designer when shooting [...]

I’ve been a enthusiastic DropBox user for some time and have been getting comfortable with the convenience of having important files accessible via a special drive in “the cloud”. In a previous post, I described how to use DropBox for photo delivery.
After seeing Leo Laporte’s coverage of some of the new products this year at CES [...]

Mike Miriello over at RealEstatePhotographyPodcast.com has decided to add a regular Q & A feature to his Podcast and Mike invited me to join him via Skype to discuss answers to questions sent to us via this Q & A form on his site.
The way this will work is you just send us your questions [...]

Clark Dugger just sent me a link to an article in the LA Times today by James Rainey, titled “For photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there“.
To me it feels like this article is written from the point of view of someone that has spent their career in print media and now [...]

Today I did a phone interview with Alison Rogers of CBS MoneyWatch.com for a blog post that she just put up on the Ask the Agent blog on the CBS MoneyWatch blog.
This was one of those interviews that you don’t get to choose the questions, but I love having any opportunity to get the real [...]

Sometimes when you are doing marketing copy being painfully honest is the best approach. This marketing copy is brilliantly simple and unforgettable.
This little commercial is a kick, but it’s just the “tip of the iceberg”. This commercial was done by Rhett and Link over at ilovelocalcommercials.com. These two guys show the power of a video [...]

I noticed that Reator.com released a iPhone app yesterday and downloaded it and used the app to browse through all the listings in the neighborhood I thought I’d take a look at the Realtor.com site directly. Since we quit using Realtor.com in about 2004 I’d not looked at Realtor.com for a very long while.
I was amazed [...]

The holidays  are wearing off and it’s hard to avoid the fact that it’s time to start engaging again.
In the real estate world it’s still a relatively quiet time that’s perfect for education, reflecting and planning.
At this time of the year I always like to spend some time reviewing what things I did last year [...]

A couple of days ago Milia Campbell (TulipChain Photography and TulipChain flickr handle) pointed out to me that we should have a separate flickr group for HDR and Blending in real estate so that all the there would be a separate place to post and discuss HDR and Blended images.
As you know if you’ve been [...]

Thanks to Clark Dugger for passing along the link to this very beautiful, poetic, Full CG animated piece that “tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.” It’s very abstract but has many sequences that are wonderful. For more [...]

After roughly four weeks of beta testing we are as of today (Wed, Jan 6) expanding the PFREtour.com beta test to a wider audience. The next 100 people to sign-up (click here to sign-up) will be accepted and given a free tour. After we get 100 more people signed up we’ll not be accepting any [...]

I  just discovered that HDRsoft announced Photomatix Light back on Dec 15, 2009. This slipped passed me because I’ve been depending on HDRsoft e-mails that announce new versions. I didn’t get one this time. Maybe it’s because I nitpicked the way the first version of their Lightroom plugin worked. I’ll be nice.
What Photomatix Light is, [...]

I wanted to report that more showings of the Julius Shulman Film, Visual Acoustics, have been announced. The schedule has been updated through April 18, 2010.
If you are not familiar with Julius Shulman, check out some of the previous posts that I’ve done on Shulman. Shulman, who died at 98 last July, was one of [...]