May 31st, 2011
It’s now June 1 UTC/GMT, so I’d like to congratulate Briana Gray of San Diego, CA for her winning master bedroom image. Briana’s image won the vote by six votes. There was a tie for second place between Ron Kenny and Chris Wood. Olin Redmon took third place. Briana says: For the last two years I have [...]
May 30th, 2011
I had a different post scheduled for today but I just discovered Guy Kawasaki’s new book Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. So I am anxious to pass it on to everyone. I don’t read books any more. I’m in the process of listening to Enchantment in audio book form. The theme [...]
May 29th, 2011
Last week my wife Levi got a e-mail flyer for a new listing in Redmond, WA on Seattle’s Eastside. She forwarded it to me as she exclaimed how this single little front shot made her want to go see this little cottage. This is exactly what front shots are suppose to do right? While what [...]
May 25th, 2011
Mike Gardner, a Malibu Realtor and photographer, just showed me this great listing he shot for Jeff Chertow and Caroline Lindqvist, of Pritchett-Rapf & Associates in Malibu. Mike says he shot 1200 images and distilled the presentation down to the images you see in the slide show. I have to say, I like the presentation that [...]
May 24th, 2011
Charles Mackenzie-Hill of CMH Properties in Marbella, Spain asked us for some feedback on a recent walk-through video that he shot with his Glidecam HD-4000. Charles has also posted a abbreviated version of this video on flickr in the PFRE Video For Real Estate forum. My feedback to Charles is as follows: There are a couple of parts [...]
May 23rd, 2011
Thanks to Jonathan Calvert of Houston, TX for passing along his tutorial for a quick and easy way to replace skies. Jonathan says, “I know there has been a hundred tutorials on sky replacement, but they all seem too “intricate” for fast turn around real estate pictures, especially if you have multiple outdoor shots on [...]
May 22nd, 2011
Jason Lusk ask me to do a post about real estate photographer websites and pose the question: ”What do you find effective or think is necessary to have in a Real Estate Photographer’s site?” Jason is in the process of updating his site. So let me start by listing what I think are essential features [...]
May 17th, 2011
A few days ago I visited cambridgeincolour.com which I haven’t been to in years. I went there looking for some good quality online resources for a online Digital Photography class that I’m building for my local high school Technical School. I remember being impressed with the quality of the photography tutorials the last time I was [...]
May 16th, 2011
This is a series of stills and some video showing the rig that the PlatiumHD.tv crew used to shoot the very wide aspect ratio property video that I posted on May 10. Also, notice that they have the full screen mode fixed so the video hold it’s aspect ratio when displaying full screen.
May 16th, 2011
I recently got a question asking what to charge a Stager for reuse of some photos for the stager’s web site. I realized that it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about the potential synergy between real estate photography and staging. In upper-end interior photography stagers, frequently called stylists almost always are an integral [...]
May 15th, 2011
Last week I got a request from Fire Control-man First Class, Robert Kendzierski aboard the USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser conducting air defense and anti-piracy operations off the coast of Pakistan and Somalia in the Arabian Sea, with the US 5th fleet. Since Robert is a photographer, when he’s not deployed, chasing Somalie [...]
May 11th, 2011
I know, I can hear the objections already! For many years I’ve had a Point and shoot section in my recommended camera list and in the choosing a camera chapter of my Photography For Real Estate eBook. But that’s all over now. Here is my reasoning: To do quality work you need to have a [...]
May 10th, 2011
Brett Clements just sent me this example of a video with a panorama aspect ratio that PlatinumHD.tv is currently working on. Brett says: “This has never been done before. We shot this using two Canon 5DMII’s with two 17mm Tilt Shift lenses, using an Oracle controller on a Kessler slider. The images are WIDER, without distortion, than [...]
May 8th, 2011
Just recently Robert Barr, a relatively new real estate photographer, that works on the Eastside of Seattle told me that, “my business is doing GREAT! I had 4 gigs so far this week and may have one more before the week is over. I am officially making more money now then I was at my previous job.” Robert is charging [...]
May 5th, 2011
This post is aimed at about 2 to 5% of the real estate photographers out there. If you can make vertical reference lines like the red lines in the photo to the right on ANY (even one) of your photos that don’t line up exactly with walls, window lines etc, I’m talking to you here. The photo [...]
May 3rd, 2011
Last week I got a real estate photography update from Alberto and Mia Dominguez of Artez Photography in Nanaimo, BC. I’ve done a couple of posts in the past on Alberto and Mia’s business. Mia reports that: We started thinking about creating a video package since early 2010 but the process took longer than expected, [...]
May 2nd, 2011
This is a guest post by Brett Clements, of PlatinumHD Propvid Australia (note that in AU the refer to the home seller as the “vendor”): As PlatinumHD Propvid slowly expands internationally, we’re being exposed to different ways of doing things. Different ways Agents do things. Different business models. Increasingly, we are being asked, why is the quality [...]
May 2nd, 2011
Just a reminder that we are now accepting photos of kitchens for the May PFRE photographer of the month competition. May’s theme is master bedrooms. E-mail your best master bedroom photo to contest at PhotographyForRealEstate dot net. In the subject line put “contest” and “April”. Submitted photos should be a JPG with maximum of 2000 pixels on the longest [...]
May 2nd, 2011
Congratulations to Jasmine Mak who won the voting in the PFRE Photographer of the month flickr group for April. Jasmine’s image won the vote with 7 votes. There was a tie for second place between Scott Basile of San Diego and Lorenzo Vecchia of Barcelona. There was also a tie for third place between Eric Lucero, Matt Waclo. [...]
May 1st, 2011
Bjarne “Kris” Haug, of New Orleans posed a question last week about property video pricing. Kris is thinking about expanding into the property video business and wants to know what to charge. Great question, many real estate shooters are adding video to their list of services and want to know about pricing. Here was my [...]
