Archive for October, 2011

Artez Photography: Another Real Estate Photography Success Story

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). [...]

A Real Estate Photographer Success Story From Charlotte, NC

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 [...]

Lighting Interiors Celebrates One Year Since Launch

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 [...]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Is Out: Is It Worth The Upgrade?

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 [...]

If You Are In The LA Area Checkout Luke Gibson’s Show At The AIA LA Office Exhibition

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, [...]

The Business of Real Estate Photography is Based on Simple Math

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 [...]

My Nomination For Best Property Video

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. [...]

What Ever Happened To REAL Estate?

October 12th, 2011

The Ultimate Property Video Drone

October 12th, 2011

The OM-Copter gives wings to the Red Epic from omstudios on Vimeo.

Help Kickstart The Nice Clip – A Universal Lens Cap Clip & Cord Catcher!

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 [...]