December 16th, 2011
I noticed that there are significant price reductions on the 5DMKII at both Amazon and B&H. I thought they are significant enough that I shoud pass this along. Amazon - Body only for $2175 USD B&H (Sale is over now)- Body only with SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card & Lowepro Adventura 170 Shoulder Bag & [...]
December 15th, 2011
Nadia Gottfried, a Calgary real estate photographer, sent me a slide show that she created with Animoto that she is using to promote her business online. Nadia, is very excited about how easily she could create a little video with music, text and some of her listing photos. I like the general impression this gives. [...]
December 15th, 2011
Dan Achatz, a long time Seattle real estate photographer has expanded into video. Yesterday Dan pointed out to me yesterday that he has a new website that focuses just on marketing real estate video. I asked day what his perspective is on the market for real estate video in the Seattle area. Dan said: It’s [...]
December 13th, 2011
Several years ago, I pointed out John Harrington’s great book, Best Business Practices for Photographers. Since that time he’s put out a second edition that has even more great information on photographic business practices so I think it’s worth pointing out again. I highly recommend John Harrington’s book even though it’s aimed more towards the [...]
December 13th, 2011
Herb at Tourfactory.com gave me a free tourfactory.com tour to contrast how tourfactory.com tours look and function differently than the pfretour.com tour I’m using. I have to say that design wise Tourfactory.com tours are the very best looking still tour design that I’ve ever seen. No exceptions! If you are using just still photos tourfactory [...]
December 11th, 2011
Malia Campbell finished the video that she shot for my Snoqualmie Ridge (WA) home today. My wife Levi and Jenny our Realtor are still tinkering with the words in the narration at this hour but I like the video and I like Malia’s style. I have the YouTube hosted video embedded in my pfretour.com property site. [...]
December 10th, 2011
Many years ago there used to be a bumper sticker they sold here on Maui that read “Ho-hum, another shitty day in Paradise“. Last night we arrived on Maui for a little sun break. About this time of year in the Northwest you tend to forget what the sun and warmth from it feels like. [...]
December 8th, 2011
From CNN.com: “You might think that if anyone would know how to use a QR code, it would be college students — a demographic that is immersed in technology and bombarded by marketing. But a recent study found that nearly eight in 10 college students had no idea what to do with a QR code. [...]
December 7th, 2011
Levi and I haven’t sold a property of our own since 2006 but this weekend we are putting our furnished rental in Snoqualmie, WA on the market. Putting this property on the market gives me a chance to “eat my own dog food” in the process of marketing the property. We’ve spent the last week [...]
December 6th, 2011
Heath Cowart who works in western North Carolina sent me this example of a life style video project that he recently did for Beverly Hanks and Associates, a large broker in his area. Notice that the Beverly Hanks website from page has a 3:50 clip from Heath’s complete 16 min live style video. Heath points [...]
