July 31st, 2011
It’s now August 1 in GMT so the voting for the July PFRE Photographer of the month is over. Congratulations to Dave Rezendes of Dave Rezendes Photography, Inc. of Honolulu, Hawai’i who was voted PFRE photographer of the month for July. Dave’s stunning image is of a home in Honolulu designed by Long and Associates AIA, [...]
July 29th, 2011
Brett Clements sent me a prerelease of a video he is working on. Bret says, “I’m working on a very different type of real estate video at the moment. I don’t normally show ‘roughs’ but I thought it might be nice for you guys to see how we concept up a piece.” Brett promised to [...]
July 28th, 2011
I’ve been talking to a lot of real estate photographers just starting the business recently and the subject of a portfolio website comes up as one of the very first subjects of discussion. Your portfolio of real estate images is at the center of your marketing. Your website is just an accessible way to present your business [...]
July 27th, 2011
Last week Dave Baxter, in upstate New York, told me that he was inspired by all the talk here on the blog about Exposure Fusion and wanted to know which camera body would be the best for shooting auto exposure brackets (AEB). While I knew that the recent Nikon DSLRs would shoot 8 EV of [...]
July 26th, 2011
Thanks to Michael McCreary for pointing out this recent article on helimalibu.com. UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) technology is evolving very fast. The UAV the Helimalibu.com guys use is a rig worth about $20,000. This is typical for a UAV that will carry a DSLR. To me this seems far too expensive to be a practical [...]
July 25th, 2011
Even though Russell Brown, the long time Photoshop evangelist uses the Nik HDR Pro Plugin in this tutorial to illustrate how to move away from over saturated and super sharpened HDR images. This is very appropriate for real estate photography and I believe the workflow he uses could easily be used with Photomatix or other tone mapping [...]
July 24th, 2011
Heath Cowart of Residential-Photography.net showed me this property video today that he just finished shooting. His client Jennifer Merrell of Steve Owen and Associates and her broker in charge came up with the concept and Jennifer directed the video. Heath said: Both Jennifer and Jeremy Owen, her broker in charge, are excited about using video [...]
July 21st, 2011
For those of you holding back on the upgrade to Lion I thought I’d report that my two upgrades have been reasonably painless. I have a MacBook Pro which I upgraded mid-day Wednesday, the day of the release, and a iMac which I updated overnight Wednesday night. While I can’t say I’ve really have tested [...]
July 20th, 2011
Just incase you didn’t notice, last Saturday HDRsoft released version 4.1 of Photomatix Pro. Here is a list of the new features from the HDRsoft.com site: Ability to select a region on the Tone Mapping/Fusion preview and replace it with a source photo. A “Selection Mode” option on the Preview window lets users select one [...]
July 19th, 2011
It’s been a busy last 7 days here at PFRE. It is clear from talking to people that there are a number of real estate photographers that aren’t making enough to pay their bills. This was a very hot subject and the post resulted in a bunch of requests for help from people working to get [...]
