Photography For Real Estate

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Yesterday I added a little introduction video to the PFRE blog (right up there in the center below the header image)  because I feel like I should be eating my own dog food in the area of video. Please be easy on me, I did a lot of practicing, a lot of takes and as [...]

As someone who has owned and loved almost every product that Steve Jobs championed from the Apple II, the first Macintosh, the first Apple Laser Printer, the Apple’s first Apple laptop, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, I’m going to miss Steve’s passion for design and flare for marketing. Steve is an example of [...]

I just got finished emailing the iTunes free codes to the 10 LightTrac give away winners: Theo, Jade, Andrew, Allan, Steven, Frances, Chris, Lynsey, Mia and Scott. My granddaughter, Ya-Ya (she can’t say her given name, Eliza, yet so she calls herself  Ya-Ya) chose the winners this afternoon with the guidence of her 4 yr [...]

Spending the rest of the month of August  here at Lake Tahoe soaking up some rays and fresh mountain air. We are renting this awesome lake front property for our family reunion. When I arrived Friday here, I decided to see what property here on the lake is going for so I brought up my [...]

Several people have said that they are surprised that I don’t use Facebook. Linda Clements (Brett’s wife) reprimanded me for not having Like buttons on posts and eBook landing pages etc. I know, I know, I’m sure that if I was more active on Facebook that it would generate some traffic but I just don’t feel right in my [...]

I’d like to welcome John Durrant of the UK and his Property Photography Blog to real estate photography blogging. John is a long time property photographer in the UK that also has a business in post processing photos for estate agents (that’s UK for real estate agents) called Doctor-Photo. John says, “I’m on a one-man-mission [...]

I’ve revised, updated and expanded my free Guide to Using Photography in Real Estate Marketing For Realtors and Home Sellers. This is the third edition of the two page guide that I first released in June of 2009. It’s purpose is to help everyone educate agents on why photography is important for marketing real estate. I’ve [...]

Ever since I started using the Chrome browser about a year ago, I noticed that whenever I ran across a page in a language other than English, Chrome offers to translate to English. Very cool feature! I’ve also been known to use Google translate to impress my native Spanish or French speaking friends with my [...]

I had a situation today in which I deleted a readers comments and it made me realize I need to talk about my comment moderation guidelines. My basic moderation guidelines have evolved out of the fact that in the last year I have had a few people that have exhibited troll like behavior in the blog [...]

I thought it would be interesting to see what the top 10 most popular posts were in 2010. Of the posts on PFRE in 2010 following were the most popular: Aperture vs Lightroom – Is there a Best Choice for Real Estate Photography? What Should I Charge For A Shoot? Shooting Brackets For Exposure Fusion [...]

One of my biggest pleasures in doing this blog is meeting (virtually speaking) so many like minded people from such diverse backgrounds and locations. During this special season I’d like to extend special wishes and encouragement to PFRE pioneers Babs Akinnagbe, in Nigeria, Jaak Nilson in Tartu, Estonia, Andrey Khrolenok in Moscow, Leandro, in Argentina, Bruce [...]

Steve Mather recently suggested that I should add a directory of the software that real estate photographers use with the current versions and where to purchase. The Camera page and lenses page on the blog are some of the most popular pages on the blog. The only page that has higher traffic is the real [...]

You probably noticed that I put my Christmas header photo up on the blog today. I like this header image partly because of the incredible story that goes with it of how PFRE blog readers solved the mystery of what these lights are. I shot this near the middle of Lake Union in Dec 2006 aboard [...]

I’m pleased to announce a major improvement to the PFRE Blog’s camera table. I’ve decided to team with Snapsort.com to automatically generate the table on the camera page. I used to update this table manually and as a result it was always little behind. As of today the table is generated from the snapsort.com camera [...]

I got an iPad a couple of days ago. I decided that it’s important to pay attention to the iPad as a browsing and e-book reading platform. Google analytics for the PFRE blog shows that 2% of the PFRE blog traffic is already from iPad users. Probably a more significant fact is that the traffic [...]