January 31st, 2011
Last Tuesday Google casually announced on it’s Chromium Blog that it would be phasing out Chrome support for H.264, the video codec and standard supported by Adobe Flash, Blu-ray, Internet Explorer, Safari and others. Instead, it will be supporting WebM and Ogg Theora, which are supported by Mozilla and Opera. Ever since this announcement the [...]
January 30th, 2011
Today Bill26 of Broomfield, CO (just North of Denver) became the 5000th PFRE flickr group member. Bill says, I am married with a three-year-old (on my lap right now – difficult to type). I have been a serious amateur for several years, mostly in landscapes. However, in the last year or so I have become interested [...]
January 28th, 2011
Kudos to St Paul MN Realtor®, Teresa Boardman, for her article in InmanNews titled “Take better listing photos, or don’t take them at all“. Teresa gives a tongue-in-cheek description of what agents should do with their point-and-shoot camera or cell phone camera they may be using to shoot listings with… break it with a sledge hammer! [...]
January 27th, 2011
I’ve gotten many questions in the last month or two about how creating quality YouTube videos. Questions like why do my YouTube videos look so crappy? Let me start by saying that traditionally people that create video tend to gravitate to Macs. There’s a simple reason for that: Every Mac comes with iMovie 11 which [...]
January 26th, 2011
Wow, I noticed today that David Hobby announced a fantastic sounding workshop tour of 29 cities that David is doing with Joe McNally starting in Seattle on 3/11 and ending in St Louis on 4/18. The tour will be in 29 US cities. Sounds awesome! Here is the tour website that has all the details. [...]
January 25th, 2011
Steve Fuller of Kelowna, BC recently pointed out to me that after many years of using the Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 that he was moving to the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. The Tokina 11-16mm lens is specifically designed for APS-C sensors (cropped sensor DSLRs). It’s been on the market since about 2008. This lens is available in [...]
January 24th, 2011
I had a situation today in which I deleted a readers comments and it made me realize I need to talk about my comment moderation guidelines. My basic moderation guidelines have evolved out of the fact that in the last year I have had a few people that have exhibited troll like behavior in the blog [...]
January 23rd, 2011
In Oct 2009 I did a post on QR Codes. Before that I’d never even heard of the things. You can see from the comments on that post there was a fair amount of skepticism about QR codes in general and why real estate photographers should even care. QR code technology has become popular in [...]
January 20th, 2011
In the last week I’ve had four discussions with people concerning some aspect of being both a real estate agent and a real estate photographer. I find when a subject like this pops up out of the blue from a bunch of different people I usually indicates a trend going on. There were four different [...]
January 19th, 2011
Wow, the response to the post I did last Friday on How Do Your Real Estate Tours And Slide Shows Look On The iPad? demonstrated there is a lot of energy out there on this subject. I thought it may be useful to show an example of a cool little slide show building product that [...]
