Photography For Real Estate

Masking in Photoshop for Sky or Window relpacement: Click here to view my youtube video on how to do masking to replace the sky. This same technique works for windows on interiors.

Using Gmail to Simplify Your E-mail: This is an appendix from my  e-book, The Business of Real Estate Photography. It describes how to use the IMAP mail protocol in Gmail to sync your e-mail to all the machines you use for e-mail. Download the PDF.

10 Essentials: This tutorial describes the 10 most important principles of creating effective real estate marketing photos. Download the PDF here.

Vertical walls: One of the biggest problems we see with real estate photography is the problem of “converging verticals”. This tutorial describes how to prevent converging verticals while shooting and to fix the converging vertical problem in post processing. Download the PDF here.

Straight walls: Another less prevalent problem real estate shooters encounter is barrel distortion in wide-angle lenses. Barrel distortion makes long vertical lines near the edge of the photo frame look curved. All wide-angle zoom lens have some degree of barrel distortion. This tutorial describes how to minimize barrel distortion while shooting and how to fix the problem in post processing. Download the PDF here.

Spherical panoramas: This tutorial describes how I create spherical Flash panoramas. There are many ways to shoot panoramas this is the way I do it. This tutorial also describes how to download my 360 tour template and adapt it for your own use. Download the PDF here.