October 31st, 2011
Halloween is over in Greenwich and Mike Leyland of Cairns AU has won the voting for the October PFRE photographer of the month. Notice that Mike won last month too! Mike is the third two time winner and the second photographer to win two consecutive months. Congratulations Mike! Mike says: Hats off to everyone who had a photo [...]
October 30th, 2011
The sex theme has worked so well for Ian Adams and the team at NEO Properties in the past that they are using it again with this property video. If you missed previous posts about their property videos they are: Here Here Here It appears that the folks at Neo Property have figured out that [...]
October 28th, 2011
Dave from Perth, Western Australia recently sent me a link to his first real estate video, showcasing a block of land on a golf course estate. The agent’s request was to shoot the block and the golf course and get some footage of nearby locations that shows off the area’s laid-back lifestyle. The agent was [...]
October 27th, 2011
Today a real estate agent/photographer told me that, “..It seems that most agents, including our office manager think that once the agent pays the photographer they own them. I’ve been talking to other photographers and tell me that they retain ownership…” This illustrates the confusion that is rampent in the real estate community about ownership [...]
October 26th, 2011
Last week GoPro announced a new version of their popular extreme sports camera. I know, you’re saying what does this have to do with real estate photography? Well here’s the connection: As I pointed out in a previous post, that the AR Parrot drone can carry a GoPro camera and do some pretty cool aerial [...]
October 25th, 2011
I ran across this post the other day at iMediaConnection.com and I have to admit that I was a little surprised because my impression has been that, while not taking over the marketing world by storm, QR codes are starting to be used more. I’ve been seeing more and more of them in Magazines especially in the last [...]
October 24th, 2011
David Eichler of Daly City, CA sent me a link to his blog where he has two of really stunning images of a shoot that he did recently of Rancho del Eliseo. Nowadays every like someone sends me I hit it with my iPad to check to see if the images are visible because there [...]
October 23rd, 2011
Ethan Tweedie a photographer on the big Island of Hawaii who is moving into real estate photography sent me a link to a tour of a listing he shot of a $28 million listing. This is exactly what every real estate photographer needs, a great upper-end listing for their portfolio. First off I want to congratulate [...]
October 22nd, 2011
It seems a little crazy that a cell phone video should be in any way comparable to the Canon 5D MKII. But the fact that the comparison looks so good is startling and makes you think about what’s happening with technology and miniaturization. The comments from the guys that did the comparison are a good summary that puts [...]
October 20th, 2011
I like to feature as many success stories as possible. Here’s another successful real estate photography business that involves the whole family. This is a real estate photography family if there ever was one. It consists of Alberto and Mia Dominguez (Mom and dad), Pam and Mandy (oldest daughters) and Santiago and Gabby (younger teenagers). [...]
October 19th, 2011
Yesterday I answered several emails from struggling real estate photographers complaining about how tough it was out there and how hard it was to compete and answered some blog post comments that suggested that what I was preaching was totally unrealistic. It takes more than that to get me off message, but I was starting [...]
October 18th, 2011
On October 14, 2011 Scott Hargis and I celebrated the anniversary of Scott’s Lighting Interiors eBook; as much as we could with Scott in California and me in Oregon. By any standard, Lighting Interiors is a huge success. It continues to sell well all over the world. Scott has managed to distill his small flash lighting [...]
October 17th, 2011
My current software recommendation for real estate photographers are as follows: If you want just the bare essentials to do the real estate photography job, PSE is the photo editor you are looking for. It runs everywhere, costs $79 and does everything you need to do as a real estate photographer. If you can afford [...]
October 17th, 2011
If you are in the LA area go checkout PFRE reader Luke Gibson’s show, “The Architecture of Los Angeles – Through the Lens of Luke Gibson”, you only have two more weeks to go see it at the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles, at their headquarters in the Wiltern Building, at Wilshire & Western, [...]
October 16th, 2011
I’ve been reading Michael Lewis’s latest book Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. In it Lewis researches the cultural background of the recent financial meltdowns that we’ve been happening all over western civilization. Like Iceland, Ireland, Greece, and United States. There’s a common thread in every one of them: we all want to do just look [...]
October 13th, 2011
Regular readers will recall the BallinDowns property video that did a couple of posts on back in June of this year. This video was unusual in that it honestly but discretely shared the reason that this property was on the market. A’lysse, the woman in the video, is playing herself and has life threatening medical problems. [...]
October 12th, 2011
The OM-Copter gives wings to the Red Epic from omstudios on Vimeo.
October 11th, 2011
Today I talked to Zeke Kamm in Bend, OR at nice-industries.com who is launching a new product called the Nice Clip on Kickstart.com. Kickstarter.com is a cool way to help small businesses get off the ground and launch a product. Zeke says: This product is a new mobile phone/electronics/photo accessory launched on Kickstarter – The [...]
