Photography For Real Estate

Here is a slide show of some of  my 2010 favorites from the PFRE flickr pool. Be sure to click the full screen button for maximum effect. Looking at a slide show like this I can’t help but marvel at the number of people doing top notch professional level work. For those of you that missed [...]

I thought it would be interesting to see what the top 10 most popular posts were in 2010. Of the posts on PFRE in 2010 following were the most popular: Aperture vs Lightroom – Is there a Best Choice for Real Estate Photography? What Should I Charge For A Shoot? Shooting Brackets For Exposure Fusion [...]

Back in November I gave my backup MacBook Pro to a up an coming young 11 year old photographer friend that wants to learn video and photo editing. Since I don’t like to be without a backup machine I bought a new iMac. When purchasing the iMac on the Apple site the configuration panel now [...]

John Nilsson sent me this example of a cozy little $12.8 M ski cabin listing he shot recently in Vail, Colorado. While I know this technique of mixing Ken Burns stills with video in a property video is controversial with some readers, I think John has managed to do it quite well with this technique. He has used [...]

One of my biggest pleasures in doing this blog is meeting (virtually speaking) so many like minded people from such diverse backgrounds and locations. During this special season I’d like to extend special wishes and encouragement to PFRE pioneers Babs Akinnagbe, in Nigeria, Jaak Nilson in Tartu, Estonia, Andrey Khrolenok in Moscow, Leandro, in Argentina, Bruce [...]

As a real estate photographer you’d like to be able to have a tour in your product offering that doesn’t cost much to provide and be able to sell to your customers at what ever price you see fit and have the tours appear like you host the tours in your own domain right? Problem [...]

Steve Mather recently suggested that I should add a directory of the software that real estate photographers use with the current versions and where to purchase. The Camera page and lenses page on the blog are some of the most popular pages on the blog. The only page that has higher traffic is the real [...]

I don’t know if it’s something in the water in Brisbane or that there are just more opportunities for shooting property videos in Brisbane but there seems to be more talented real estate property video photographers per capata than usual in Brisbane, Australia. Allan MacKenzie has been sending me examples of videos that his Open2view team [...]

Andy Frame (flickr handle andyframe) from Lake Worth, FL, a long time participant of the PFRE flickr group just told me that last month he was hired to shoot the 2950 ton, 281′ motor yacht Cakewalk for a 12 page article in the Dec/Jan issue of  Showboats International. You can see many of Andy’s photos from this [...]

Thanks to Richard Lamb who pointed out this bluetooth remote control for your DSLR. It’s a bluetooth gadget that plugs into your DSLR and will let you use your iPhone, iPad, and iPodTouch (Android coming soon) as a remote control for your DSLR. The Supported DSLRs, starting Dec 20, will be about Nikon models and [...]