February 28th, 2011
Today as I was surfing around looking for something completely else I ran across a couple of well done video tutorials on basic small flash gear and jargon. Both are by Paul Duncan. Here they are: Shutter/Flash Synchronization Strobist Preliminaries There is a ton of basic information packed into these little videos. If you are interested [...]
February 27th, 2011
I’ve been talking to several real estate photographers doing video that are looking for the best place to host their video. Of coarse everyone starts with YouTube. YouTube is clearly the default place to host video but everyone seems to be looking for a little more professional look than you get with YouTube. Many like [...]
February 25th, 2011
I’ve been admiring the video work of Paul Huskinson and his team for some time. Paul and his team work out of Canberra, AU and are another example of the outstanding work that so many real estate video producers in AU are doing these days. Here is one of their recent videos. I like their [...]
February 24th, 2011
There are more an more reasons these days to be carefully tracking your expenses and adjusting your shoot prices. In case you haven’t noticed the price of oil and petrol is knocking on heaven’s door! Since my post last Nov on computing your cost of showing up and writing a new section in my Business [...]
February 22nd, 2011
Last week I was talking to Kris Bjarne Haug, a real estate photographer in the Greater New Orleans area and noticed that Kris has a site dedicated to his virtual staging product. I’ve gotten mixed feedback from agents and photographers on this subject so I was anxious to get Kris’s perspective on how things were [...]
February 21st, 2011
Barbara Corcoran is a mega-agent and one of the most quoted people in real estate according to New York Magazine. In a recent interview on the Today Show Barbara concisely summarizes the importance of “Waging War Online” by hiring a professional photographer if you possibly can! Her statements on professional photography are at 2:14 into [...]
February 17th, 2011
I’ve been sitting on this video for almost a week now anxiously waiting the go ahead from Brett Clements to show it to you. For those not into rock music history I need to explain the historical references. The song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is a song written by Bob Dylan for the film Pat [...]
February 16th, 2011
Fred Depp of St Louis, MO sent me a link recently to his blog post that makes the case for providing a slide show or tour of some kind. Fred’s argument is simple: when you upload images to MLS sites and they get syndicated to national and regional sites the images get mangled. There is [...]
February 15th, 2011
Just 5 weeks ago I added real estate photographer Peggy Taylor in Tampa Bay, FL to the PFRE real estate photographer directory because she is one of the top pfretour.com users with over 80 active tours. This last weekend Peggy told me her site and marketing was being featured on AgentGenius.com and they had found her [...]
February 14th, 2011
Over the years we’ve had a lot of heated discussions here about ethics of image modification in the context of real estate photography. I think the subject is important enough that I have a separate page dedicated to summarizing the consensus that has evolved out of these discussions over the years. Here is a general outline [...]
