September 30th, 2011
It’s now October UTC/GMT and Mike Leyland of Cairns AU has won the voting for the September PFRE photographer of the month. Mike says: The house was a nominee for the HIA (Housing Industry Association) awards and had pretty awesome views. The bath was one of the numerous places from where you had clear views [...]
September 28th, 2011
This morning in my local small town paper ran an AP syndicated story on front page pointing out how the in the US the upper-end real estate market was recovering while everything else wasn’t: In America, it’s starting to feel as if there are two housing markets. One for the rich and one for everyone [...]
September 27th, 2011
Tom in Seattle got me going on this subject last week when he was showing me a camera site where they are selling 5D Mark IIs for basically ~$1,000 USD off of the standard Amazon and B&H price. I recommended that he not bite on this ridiculously low price. It felt to me that the [...]
September 26th, 2011
Today Allan MacKenzie showed me his recent project that he produced to promote the 60th anniversary of the Endeavour prize home. Some background: this special prize home was selected and purpose built to commemorate Endeavours first 60 years of service. Endeavour Foundation’s vision of providing opportunities for people with a disabilities was founded in 1951, with [...]
September 25th, 2011
This weekend I talked to Russell “Rusty” Freeman who has been a long time PFRE reader. Rusty has been building and operating a real estate photography business in the LA for a number of years. Long time readers will remember many of the posts we’ve done about Rusty (just type “rusty” in the search box [...]
September 24th, 2011
LA real estate photographer Russell “Rusty” Freeman has been a long time PFRE reader and contributor. Yesterday, Rusty sent me his video on “How to make Fresh Salsa & Guacamole”. Real estate photographers need Salsa & Guacamole too so I thought I’d pass this recipe on. I’m definitely going to try one or both this [...]
September 23rd, 2011
An article on Techcrunch.com reports that: ComScore’s August web video rankings are in, and this is for sure: Americans watch an enormous amount of online video content, with most of that taking place on — you guessed it — YouTube. There is several messages here for real estate photographers and real estate agents: Watching YouTube [...]
September 22nd, 2011
A shoot by PFRE reader Tim Furlong, Jr. of Louisville, KY is featured today in the US edition of the WSJ. I love this front shot! I think it is well composed and the colors really pop. It makes the viewer want to click and look through the rest of the photo set. The interior shots [...]
September 21st, 2011
Scott Kelby’s new book and seminar that is currently on tour are a great way to learn how to shoot portraits if you’ve not done that before or you just need a refresher on some modern portrait techniques. Then call up your local real estate office and make the managing broker and offer to [...]
September 20th, 2011
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 10 are scheduled to be released October 3rd. I point this out because I think Adobe Photoshop Elements is becoming the Photoshop of choice for beginning real estate photographers. While I dearly love my Photoshop CS5 ($670 USD) and Lightroom ($210 USD) and there are many wonderful benefits of both, [...]
