August 31st, 2011
It’s now September 1 GMT so the voting for the August PFRE Photographer of the month is over. Congratulations to Linda Sabiston from the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, CA. This win makes Linda a two time winner of the PFRE photographer of the month because Linda won back in August of 2008 when we [...]
August 30th, 2011
If you have Photoshop CS5 and do real estate photography you should know about how to use the puppet warp feature to straighten walls in architectural photos. Thanks to Jeff for sending me this video! I’d never paid much attention to puppet warp but it is a really cool feature. Note that this feature was [...]
August 29th, 2011
Mike Kelley sent me this tutorial video that illustrates his compositing technique for adding extra drama to twilight shots. Mike describes his technique as follows: The technique is pretty simple but gives great results. I have my camera set up on a tripod with a remote, and Pocketwizards connecting the camera to the flash in [...]
August 28th, 2011
About 10 months ago when it first came on the market I did a post on the LightTrac iPhone App. The guys from LightTrac saw the post and are now going to give PFRE readers some free copies of LightTrac as a promo for their up coming version 2.2 for the iPhone/iPad. See below on [...]
August 24th, 2011
Estella Sneider, a real estate photographer who works the Beverly Hills area sent me this link recently to the Wall Street Journal article that she got on a listing that she shot in the Beverly Park neighborhood. You’ll have to forgive me for listing this post in the Humor category. But there is just too [...]
August 23rd, 2011
Just yesterday I was accused of not having a anything on the blog or in my book about preparing photos for the MLS. This post will fix the blog part and I’ll make sure I have similar material in my book in the update that is coming soon. There are a bunch of discussion threads [...]
August 22nd, 2011
This post by Scott Hargis in 2007 is one of the all time most popular posts on this blog. It’s popularity, I’m sure, is due to the fact that he explains his technique of multiple off-camera small flashes. Almost everyone is interested in this subject. It turns out that just a few months before the [...]
August 21st, 2011
Spending the rest of the month of August here at Lake Tahoe soaking up some rays and fresh mountain air. We are renting this awesome lake front property for our family reunion. When I arrived Friday here, I decided to see what property here on the lake is going for so I brought up my [...]
August 18th, 2011
Monday (August 15th) Snapsort.com relaunched with a bunch of nice updates that helps you compare camera specifications. Things to take note of are: Instantly explore the world of cameras based on your unique criteria. This isn’t a list, snapsort.com uses AI to recommend the best camera for you. All the data is in one place. [...]
August 17th, 2011
Today Heath Cowart of Brevard, NC told me about a class that he and his brother put on recently for their broker clients. Here is Heath’s description: The class was called “Mastering the Virtual Face to Face Meeting“. We called it this because we are using video to give brokers an opportunity to communicate face to [...]
