January 31st, 2012
It’s now February so we have a new PFRE Photographer of the Month for January. The winner is Scott DuBose of San Jose, CA. Congratulations Scott! You can click on the photo to the right to see a larger version. Scott’s victory speech is as follows: This is a huge honor for me since I admire the work of [...]
January 31st, 2012
I became aware of this issue this just this last weekend when Texas agent Lee Jinks commented on a PFRE post about this issue. Today there is an article on this subject on GeekWire. There’s also been a discussion going on on Geekestate.com on this subject. It appears that this is a rapidly evolving real [...]
January 30th, 2012
Last week PFRE reader and real estate photographer Mike Lefebvre sent me a link to an video of an interview that he had with Steve Pacinelli of techsavvyagent.com. I think the thrust of this interview is important. That is, there are a lot of people trying to shot for agents that have not taken the time and [...]
January 29th, 2012
One thing I’ve always enjoyed about real estate marketing is talking to the actual buyers about what got them to come physically tour a home. Our rental property in Snoqualmie, WA that we we put on the market towards the end of last month sold and is closing tomorrow. So this weekend I got to [...]
January 26th, 2012
Today Scott Hargis and Malia Campbell announced the video version of Scott’s Lighting workshop that they have been working hard on for many months is nearing completion and will go live on March 1. This YouTube video is a little ad for the series. This will be another great way to learn Scott’s lighting technique. [...]
January 25th, 2012
Just last week I was looking at the Google Translate Widget at the top left side-bar wondering if it was really being used and if I should leave it there. Yesterday the friendly universe gave me a clear answer- “YES people are using it.. leave it there!”. Alex Grekov of St Petersburg, Russia contacted me [...]
January 24th, 2012
Yesterday I had a phone conversation from NYTimes reporter, Nick Wingfield, who is working on a story about the fact that the FAA has shutdown of US Airspace to Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). I told Nick that over the last few posts I’ve done on UAVs that there were some knowledgeable sounding pilots and hobbyist’s commented [...]
January 24th, 2012
Last night I noticed there had been a spike of eight votes in one photo that before that before that time had only had one vote. I contacted the owner of the image and he told me he was just promoting his image on FaceBook and a bunch of his friends had come over to the [...]
January 23rd, 2012
This last weekend when I was getting lots of feedback on my first try at moving the PFRE blog to a new theme. Nick De Clercq, a brokerage owner and real estate photographer in Gent, Belgium suggested the Magazine style theme that I’m currently testing on the PFRE test blog. I’m liking Nick’s suggestion much [...]
January 22nd, 2012
Last week I did a couple of posts (here and here) on the subject how presentation of real estate photography is a huge factor for the photos to do their job and for the real estate photographer to look their best. Yesterday a Google alert pointed out a newly listed at 11206 Laurie Dr, Studio [...]
January 21st, 2012
I left the new PFRE blog template up overnight on Friday night and got some negative feedback. So I thought I’d do a reader poll this weekend to get a broader input. Update 1/22 8:00 PM Pacific: On Sunday (1/22) evening I took down the Poll that was up for most of the weekend because [...]
January 19th, 2012
Since Lightroom 4 Beta has been out now for 10 days and I’ve had time to play around with it I thought would try to sum up the features from the point of real estate photography. As of Lightroom 3 when Adobe added the Lens Correction features, I believe Lightroom became an essential tool for [...]
January 18th, 2012
Today as a follow-up to comments I made on Monday’s post about taking control of how your images are presented Brandon Beechler, an Orange County, CA Architectural photographer/web designer pointed out that he agrees and since he is skilled in CSS and HTML he creates and hosts his own tours for his real estate photography [...]
January 17th, 2012
Today I’m breaking from my normal policy of not posting about political issues. Opposing the Protect IP/SOPA bills is just too important to let slide. Many sites in the US today (Wed 1/18) are completely blacked out in an expression of protest against Protect IP/SOPA bills that are very close to being passed in the [...]
January 16th, 2012
David Eichler just showed me a shoot that he did recently of a high-end property, The Tobin-Clark Estate-Hillsborough, CA listed at $29,000,000. This home is considered one of finest designs of Architect David Adler . As David explains on his blog post that has 11 images from this shoot, this is not a typical real estate shoot in that [...]
January 15th, 2012
On Friday Tourbuzz.net announced what they call “tactical” video on their tours. Tactical video is Clips are limited to 10MB (10-15 seconds) that you can upload just like still photos. As far as I can tell this is a completely a new concept to have short clips in a tour. Here is an example of [...]
January 12th, 2012
PFRE reader Ron Rosenzweig showed me his digital magazine called Florida Designer Homes Magazine that he launched last summer for the purpose of keeping his name in front of potential clients and making contacts with new clients. Ron describes setting up the magazine as follows: I set up a website to host the publication as well as using [...]
January 11th, 2012
Last night Jeffrey Hogue a Pennsylvania Realtor sent me some photos of his bucket truck that he has painted to promote himself as a listing agent and photographer. When is the last time you saw a real estate agent that believed strongly enough in marketing and photography that they would go out and buy a [...]
January 10th, 2012
The two reader polls on what lens do you use and what DSLR do you use back in November of 2011 turned out to be very significant and insightful. Unfortunately that post has moved down to about the third page of the blog so people that need and want to see it probably won’t find it [...]
January 9th, 2012
I was just about ready to call it a day but I just noticed that Adobe just put up LR 4 Beta for download. So I thought I’d pass that along. It looks like LR finally understands video. Here are a couple of places to get more info on what’s new in this release: www.photoshopcafe.com/lightroom/ [...]
