Photography For Real Estate

It’s now 2012 in Greenwich so the voting for the PFRE Photographer of the year is over. Congratulations to Dave Rezendes of Dave Rezendes Photography, Inc. of Honolulu, Hawai’i who was voted PFRE photographer of the year by PFRE blog readers. Dave’s stunning image is of a home in Honolulu designed by Long and Associates AIA, [...]

This is a special week between holidays where, there’s  time to think about what happened  last year and how you are going to try to do it better next year. Looking Back  I am continually amazed at how much I enjoy doing this blog. I enjoy it more every year and 2011 is no exception. [...]

Chad Jones sent me a quote from one of his best clients: I want you to honestly tell me if virtual tours are in the way out of fashion because I have been on the phone with realtor.com complaining that no one is looking at the tours from their website on most all of my [...]

Today dpreview.com posted a series of  interviews with five of the top architectural photographers in the US: Alan Blakely – blakelyphotography.com Chip Allen – chipallenphotography.com Kirk Gittings – gittingsphoto.com Scott Hargis – scotthargisphoto.com Treve Johnson – treve.com Apparently they will be interviewing other architectural photographers in the future.

Malia Campbell sent me this link to her video that she shot for the people that own the property in Ronda, Spain (be sure to view this full screen) where Scott Hargis did his recent workshop. I love the soft relaxing feel of this video. I especially like the underwater shots in the hot tub [...]

Michael Stentiford principal at See it Now Marketing Solutions Ltd sent me this video that his tream did for Michele Alexandrou of Smallacombe Burnside of Adelaide Australia. Michele was 1 of 4 agents completing for the right to sell a large apartment development. As Michael describes it: We got approached by one of our agents who [...]

Thanks to Zephyr McIntyre for sending me the WSJ article on the sale this summer of the highest priced home in the US. The Spelling Manor a 57,000 square-foot Los Angeles mansion built by the late TV producer Aaron Spelling closed in July 2011 for $85 million, or 43% off its $150 million asking price. [...]

Thanks to Dave Williamson for passing along this great article on why sensor size matters. I’ll never forget  when I moved from a CoolPix-995 (3.1 megapixel tiny sensor) to a Canon 1Ds (full frame 11.4 megapixel). The images from the 1Ds were so magnificent, amazing and detailed I would spend hours looking at them in Photoshop. With [...]

Heath Cowart Just sent me a wonderful little video commercial that he and  real estate broker David Holloway created to promote David’s brokerage and video work. Heath says: The idea was David’s. He created a storyboard and I found the actress and location. We used another video that I shot for David last summer to [...]

Thanks to PFRE reader Chris Wood for passing along this article in the Houston Agent Magazine about a real estate so bad it has gone viral. What a way to get exposure for your listing. Any listing agent that has ever listed a home that has an uncooperative tenant in the home while it is [...]