Comments on: Five Things To Make Sure Your Photos Are Looking Their Best

By: Ian Haseltine - Virtual tour provider

Ian Haseltine - Virtual tour provider — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:23:23 +0000

Good Points! I like how you used point number one to stress making your client happy. Too many photographers feel that they are the authority. I for one think that if we aim to please the client first, we will end up with more clients.

By: Mike Martin

Mike Martin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:46:43 +0000

MLS 29170429 on Realtor.com is an example of how a Realtor chose a portrait as one of their primary first 4 photos. Its also includes more in their 15 posted.

By: Kiera

Kiera — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:59:56 +0000

This is very useful information to me. I am coming back into RE Photography after almost 1o years, and am looking to re-learn. I started with slide film and strobes w/ 32″ umbrellas. Digital is all different I am finding. Can anyone suggest a useful site for settings & recommended equpiment for Professional RE Shoots?

By: Mike Martin

Mike Martin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:15:24 +0000

Many small bathrooms need a portrait view to do it justice. Many even need what I call a portrait panorama (i.e., skinny tall photo).

By: M Cole

M Cole — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:14:41 +0000

This is just another reason why agents should also be using a tour or video. That way, they still have photos that haven’t been re-compressed or re-sized based on different sites they’re using.

By: Brian Allen

Brian Allen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:37:19 +0000

I check a half dozen listings in Bellevue, WA and all of them had an extra button in the middle of the four to link to as many as 25 photos.

By: Denise - DS Creative

Denise - DS Creative — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:57:07 +0000

Fred is right….Realtor.com takes the first 4 pictures from MLS in alphabetical order which is usually why it is a backyard, bath, and bedroom, etc. Just as a tip, though, you can email Realtor.com with the 4 photos you want to replace them with and they will manually do so in about an hour.

By: Joshua Vensel

Joshua Vensel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:06:23 +0000

One reason I only shoot landscape orientation for real estate is because I’ve read several times that alternating orientations in a slide show is distracting to the viewer. I want my viewers to be as deeply immersed images as possible.

By: kelly thomas

kelly thomas — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:40:54 +0000

Owning our own public “MLS-Like” website, allows us to at least control how our pix are displayed on ONE site. It sure helps us look our best. I can see where it’s tough to code flexible for the different dimensions. There’s more than one way to handle that issue. I’d guess realtor.com didn’t imagine portrait orientations their layout.

/kelly thomas

By: William

William — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:35:06 +0000

I shoot portrait mode occasionally because high-quality printed brochures are important in my market. I always shoot a landscape of the same space for the MLS.

How sad is it that in 2010 the U.S. real-estate business refuses to make the most of Internet marketing? I specifically refer to the fact that when a portrait mode frame best represents a space, that simple option is not practical. Maybe by the year 2050 it will be possible to properly display a portrait mode photo on a U.S. MLS site.

The fact that MLSes destroy photo quality by hideous destructive compression is justified (I suppose) by trying to keep data storage and bandwith costs under control. But the lack of flexibility to properly use portrait mode photos is just plain lazy.

I can find better site for used cars than I can for MLS .