August 16th, 2011
Peter Brandt, a long time PFRE blog reader is interested in Architectural images as art. Peter has been a commercial photographer for 45 years and has shot architecture in Miami, London, Las Vegas, and Montreal. He has shot fashion, advertising and even shot for Playboy magazine. In recent years his interests have moved to photographing [...]
August 15th, 2011
Scott Hargis posted a great tutorial on his blog today on composition for interiors. Malia Campbell shot the video for the tutorial. I think this is a clever way to talk about and illustrate photo composition. Malia frames the shot with video that Scott is talking about while Scott walks around in the video pointing [...]
August 14th, 2011
Recall that we saw a rough prerelease video of this Ballin Downs horse property near Brisbane, AU. Brett Clements just gave me the link to the final cut of this video. There are a total of three videos used to market this property: The story (this one) The straight video The aerials First of all [...]
August 11th, 2011
Here is a great Webinar, hosted by Photoshelter.com and presented by Blake Discher, Detroit-based freelance photographer, specializing in editorial, advertising, annual reports, and portraits. Even though Blake isn’t talking about specifically about real estate photography, most all of his insights apply to creating a profitable business in real estate photography. The webinar video is just under 60 [...]
August 10th, 2011
In the last two weeks I’ve run across several people that are hosting video on their sites with QuickTime. Bad idea! Here is the problem with using QuickTime for anything on the web: QuickTime is an old Apple technology that never caught on on PCs so Windows machines can’t display movies in QuickTime format without [...]
August 9th, 2011
David Eichler showed me the post on his blog about a recent shoot that he did for Ken DeLeon of Keller Williams in Palo Alto, California, who is on track to be the number one real estate agent in the US this year, in terms of dollar volume. Here is the property web site for this listing. David [...]
August 8th, 2011
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been doing some coaching of beginning real estate photographers using various forms of video conferencing and I’ve been amazed by how effective video conferencing is. I’ve used Skype and Gotomeeting.com for my coaching sessions. Skype has been unreliable in many instances but Gotomeeting, which just added HD video to their [...]
August 5th, 2011
Several people have said that they are surprised that I don’t use Facebook. Linda Clements (Brett’s wife) reprimanded me for not having Like buttons on posts and eBook landing pages etc. I know, I know, I’m sure that if I was more active on Facebook that it would generate some traffic but I just don’t feel right in my [...]
August 4th, 2011
Up until just a few days ago Vimeo’s terms of service did not allow commercial use video. I know, I got my Vimeo account shut down for posting real estate video about a year ago. They just recently launched Vimeo Pro, which is $199/year. My understanding of Vimeo Pro is that you can now host [...]
August 3rd, 2011
Jon May, real estate photographer on the Australian Sunshine Coast was asking me recently about the subject of doing a blog in addition or associated with his portfolio site. Jon asked, what should I blog about and how can I use it to build your business etc. Jon started blogging just recently to take advantage [...]
