November 30th, 2011
It’s now December in Greenwich and Briana Gray has won the voting for the November PFRE photographer of the month! This is Briana’s second win this year. She was PFRE photographer of the month for May. We have a bunch of two time winners now, two of them this year. Here are Briana’s comments on this [...]
November 29th, 2011
Thanks to Richard Lamb of Snoqualmie, WA for pointing out that Bruce Willis is selling his home near Sun Valley (Hailey, ID). It was just listed last week for $15M. The article that Richard saw was this one on the King5.com site. Richard’s comment was. “I must say this is some of the worst HDR work [...]
November 28th, 2011
When I did the post yesterday on “What are the top selling DSLRs?” I planned to do a post today with a poll on what the most popular wide angle lenses real estate photographers are using. Suzanne Feinberg convinced me to add a poll to is to find out which DSLRs are most popular with [...]
November 27th, 2011
At this time of year when everyone is thinking about buying stuff I thought it would be interesting to see what that best selling DSLR is. First of all, since the actual total sales of DSLRs world wide isn’t available we have to figure out a way to get a close estimate. My approach at [...]
November 25th, 2011
Adobe recently announced that they are changing their upgrade pricing. The details are buried in this adobe post: …For customers who prefer to remain on the current licensing model, we will continue to offer our individual point products and Adobe Creative Suite editions as perpetual licenses. With regards to upgrades, we are changing our policy [...]
November 25th, 2011
Thanks to reader CapitalImagePhotography for pointing out that Amazon has Photoshop Elements 10 for $45.98 with free shipping or download. This is 54% off the regular price. I have no idea how long this discount is for. My guess is that it will last through Monday 11/28 but I don’t know that for sure. If [...]
November 23rd, 2011
Today Nestor, from some place in Hawaii, asked me for some advice about where to sell his used Canon Xti and a Canon 10-22 lens and what to ask for it. He’s decided to move up and want’s to use the cash from his old equipment for his new gear. This is a great subject. There’s [...]
November 22nd, 2011
The Manifesto: Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent [...]
November 21st, 2011
One of the big lessons I learned at from being an agent at JohnLScott.com for 10 years in Issaquah, WA is that the marketing power of a simple rider sign with a direct link to a listing site is huge. Since about 1999 JohnLScott.com listings have had a simple 5 digit number for every listing. For [...]
November 20th, 2011
About a month ago Scott Hargis pointed out the MagicPlan iPhone app to me because we were talking about improving the floor plan diagrams in the next edition of his Lighting book. I downloaded the app but it wouldn’t work on the iPhone 3S I had at the time. Last week I upgraded to a [...]
