July 18th, 2011
Several weeks ago I did a post on Michael Thompson’s listing in Orlinda, CA. I mentioned that the still photography was done by Scott Hargis and the video was done by Quentin Bacon but I neglected to point out that that the extensive time-lapse in this video was done by Thomas Sidney McCallum and his [...]
July 17th, 2011
The following post is by Suzanne Feinberg. She and her partner Brad run Powervision360 Productions in the Phoenix area: This is a very tough market for real estate photography right now, or is it? Some people are claiming great success. One of our vendors is claiming that he has buyers of his products that are [...]
July 16th, 2011
For regular readers this video needs no introduction, but for those new readers or those of you that may have missed their earlier videos (this one, and this one) that PlatinumHD.tv did for Neo Property. A little back story may help appreciate this video. Adrian Jenkins (the boss in the white coat) and Ian Adams of [...]
July 13th, 2011
I’d like to publicly thank Suzanne and Brad Feinberg for their generosity in volunteering to help me coach real estate photographers in getting their shoot prices up to a level where they can run a viable business. There were several real estate photographers that took me up on my offer to help them get to [...]
July 11th, 2011
I had a discussion today about twilight shots and why to do them so I thought I’d recap the fundamentals. First of all, doing a twilight shoot is almost always a special trip so most real estate photographers list a separate price for doing a twilight shoot. Here is the collective wisdom from the PFRE [...]
July 10th, 2011
Recently I talked to a young entrepreneur/photographer, Mikael Hautala of Tampere, Finland. Mikael says, “In Finland nobody makes video tours but I’m going to change that”. He says that in Finland most real estate agents are in the habit of shooting their own still photos but appear to be willing to pay for video walk-throughs. [...]
July 8th, 2011
As a result of the post I did yesterday taking a poll on the lighting techniques that real estate photographers use, a couple of readers asked, “what is Exposure Fusion?” The short answer is: Exposure Fusion (EF) is a slightly different way to process bracketed images just like you would shoot for HDR. Exposure Fusion [...]
July 7th, 2011
Since I’ve been working on updating my Photography For Real Estate eBook I’ve been thinking about the changes that have been going on in real estate photography lighting the last few years. Back in 2008 I did a poll of what lighting techniques real estate photographers were using. That poll (the 6 poll down on [...]
July 6th, 2011
Everyone is stoked about Google+ and it looks like it has some very cool features. But, Scott Bourne, over at photofocus.com, has a great article that professional photographers should read before posting photos on Google or FaceBook. Were you aware that when you post photos on Google and FaceBook you are granting them rights to pretty much [...]
July 5th, 2011
Long time PFRE reader Tim Furlong Jr. just told me he and a couple of friends are launching a new product… Check it out and checkout this awesome promotion video! It looks like a great product, I just bought one!
