October 31st, 2010
Some agents are more capable of narrating their property videos than others. An then there is Stuart Darcy of Ray White, in Mermaid Beach, Queensland, Australia. Stuart doesn’t just narrate his property video, he gives an award winning vocal performance. Stuart recorded the sound track for this property video of his listing at 3 Gallieo [...]
October 29th, 2010
Any of you that have been reading this blog for a while know that I am a big fan of Seattle Photographer, Aaron Leitz‘s work. I appreciate all the advice and input that Aaron has given me over the last several years. Aaron is the one that convinced me I should setup a flickr discussion group [...]
October 27th, 2010
I’ve had several readers point out the Popular Photography article on New York real estate photographer David Paler so I thought I’d pass it along. While there is nothing particular outstanding or significant about the article, just the fact that the subject of real estate photography is getting some print media coverage is significant. I’m [...]
October 26th, 2010
This afternoon I got a proud e-mail from Conrad Rowe of Bigfork, Montana who just launched his new website today. As I told Conrad, when someone sends me a link to a newly launched website these days the first thing I do is hit it with my iPad. Only about half of newly launched websites [...]
October 25th, 2010
Several months ago I did a post on real estate post processing as a business opportunity. As a result of that post I established a list of people doing post processing in the PFRE community. The list is on the right side-bar just below the flickr graphic. Mike Gardner, a Malibu Realtor and photographer has been [...]
October 24th, 2010
Estella Sneider, a real estate photographer that serves the LA and Beverly Hills rich and famous occasionally sends me her tours to show what she is doing. It’s always fun to see the mega-estates that Estella gets to shoot. Wow, what fun, I’m envious! Estella says the market in these estates is slower than it [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Jamie Flournoy, a San Francisco Bay area Realtor, who purchased Scott Hargis’s Lighting Interiors eBook asked me this morning if she could use her Canon 580EX II with Pocket Wizards like Scott describes in the Figure 2.5 diagram (on pg 18 – click the image to the right for a larger view) that shows how [...]
October 19th, 2010
Heath Cowart , a real estate photographer in Brevard, NC recently showed me an interesting example of the combined use of stills and video that I’ve not seen before. Heath used Final Cut Pro to do this but you can also do this with iMovie 09. I think this technique is very effective. It allows a [...]
October 18th, 2010
Thanks to Jonathan Dixon from the PFRE flickr group for pointing out that Sigma now has a another ultra wide lens in it’s line up that is appropriate for real estate photographers that use cropped sensor DSLRs. It is the Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM FLD AF Ultra Wide Zoom. Probably the first thing that comes to mind when [...]
October 17th, 2010
Levi and I Just got back from a eBook launch celebration in Seattle. A bunch of prominent Seattle real estate photographers (Matt Edington, Dan Achatz, Paul Gjording, Mark Reibman, John Galfano and Malia Campbell) joined Scott Hargis and I at Poppy in Seattle on Saturday night to celebrate the launch of Scott’s eBook. We enjoyed [...]
