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 [...]
May 15th, 2011
Last week I got a request from Fire Control-man First Class, Robert Kendzierski aboard the USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser conducting air defense and anti-piracy operations off the coast of Pakistan and Somalia in the Arabian Sea, with the US 5th fleet. Since Robert is a photographer, when he’s not deployed, chasing Somalie [...]
March 13th, 2011
I’ve just finished a significant update to my Business of Real Estate Photography eBook. For existing subscribers to this eBook, I’ll be sending out download links in the next few days to everyone that has ever purchased this eBook. The download link will go to the e-mail address you used to originally purchase this book. [...]
January 10th, 2011
As a student of video I’m always on the look out for good information sources on video and shooting video. I recently noticed an article at dpreview.com by Uwe Steinmueller titled, Understanding Compression, Codecs, and Transcoding. A lot of good geeky video stuff to get your teeth into in this article but at the bottom it [...]
January 5th, 2011
Mike Miriello over at realestatephotographypodcast.com recently interviewed Scott Hargis about his e-book, Lighting Interiors – Techniques for lighting with small flash. Scott talks about the content of the e-book and his philosophy of shooting light and fast with small flashes and about the fact that this ebook covers the fundamentals and theory of flash. Also, about [...]
November 10th, 2010
I just sent download links for an update to Scott Hargis’s eBook to everyone that’s purchased that eBook. This update has no content updates, just updates to punctuation errors, and a few spacing fixes. Nothing really earth shaking unless you are an English major. I’m letting everyone know that I’ve sent this update because I’m [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Jamie Flournoy, a San Francisco Bay area Realtor, who purchased Scott Hargis’s Lighting Interiors eBook asked me this morning if she could use her Canon 580EX II with Pocket Wizards like Scott describes in the Figure 2.5 diagram (on pg 18 – click the image to the right for a larger view) that shows how [...]
October 17th, 2010
Levi and I Just got back from a eBook launch celebration in Seattle. A bunch of prominent Seattle real estate photographers (Matt Edington, Dan Achatz, Paul Gjording, Mark Reibman, John Galfano and Malia Campbell) joined Scott Hargis and I at Poppy in Seattle on Saturday night to celebrate the launch of Scott’s eBook. We enjoyed [...]
October 14th, 2010
We have a go for launch! Scott Hargis’s new eBook The Essential Guide to: Lighting Interiors, Techniques for lighting with small flash is now available in the PFRE Store or just click here to go straight to the landing page where this eBook is for sale. Or click on the Ad at the top of [...]
October 5th, 2010
In celebration of the release of Scott Hargis’s eBook, The Essential Guide to: Lighting Interiors Scott and I have decided to give a way some eBooks to real estate photographers that are getting started in the business. The idea is to give away s set of resources to beginning real estate photographers that may not be able [...]
September 28th, 2010
A few weeks ago PFRE Blog reader Lewis Leiboh proposed to me that he do an audiobook of my eBooks. Frankly I was skeptical since the PFRE eBook seemed a little too technical and visual for the audiobook format. But since I am a huge fan of audiobooks and have a two book a month [...]
September 19th, 2010
I’m proud to announce that Scott Hargis and I are partnering to publish an eBook titled The Essential Guide to: Lighting Interiors, Techniques for lighting with small flash. We are currently working hard on this project and we expect to be adding this eBook to the PFRE store sometime in mid to late October, about [...]
March 2nd, 2010
It was October of 2007 when I launched the Photography For Real Estate e-book. Since that time it’s been very clear that the e-book medium is a great way to help beginning real estate photographers learn the craft and business of real estate photography. I get a huge amount of feedback from e-book purchasers that [...]
November 16th, 2009
I’m a little late in posting today because besides caulking my windows for the winter, I’ve been trying to think of some way I can help stimulate the real estate photographer profession. Why? Because this morning Fed Chairman Bernanke came clean and admitted that unemployment will get worse before it gets better. I decided what [...]
September 5th, 2009
Back in mid-August when I sent out the latest update to the Business of Real Estate Photography e-book update John Driggers of Adelaide, AU pointed out to me that he likes to read the PFRE e-books on his computer screen which is a horizontal format. Since the PFRE e-books are a vertical two column format [...]
August 12th, 2009
Last night I finished the update to the Business of Real Estate Photography and as I’m writing this post the E-junkie update distribution software is sending out updates to everyone who has purchased this e-book. I have a handful of readers who have changed their e-mail addresses that I have to send the update to [...]
May 14th, 2009
I wanted to give everyone an update on what I’m doing with my real estate photography e-books. First of all, after offering a hard copy version of the Photography For Real Estate e-book for the last three months, I’ve decided to discontinue hard copy completely and only do electronic distribution from now on. Hardly anyone [...]
April 6th, 2009
Forgive me for being somewhat off topic today, but this is something that has been bothering me for a while and I like to hear how others feel about it. I’m a long time subscriber to Architectural Digest, but over the last few months I’ve been reexamining the last three periodicals that I subscribe to [...]
February 9th, 2009
I’ve decided to test the demand for a hard copy version of my Photography For Real Estate book. Up to this time it’s only been available in e-book form. I’ve known for a while that many people would rather read a book the traditional way and not have to print the book themselves to do [...]
February 2nd, 2009
I just sent out download links to all Photography For Real Estate e-book subscribers. The download links were sent to the same e-mail addresses that were used to originally order the e-book. Subscribers that come to me with a sob story that they didn’t get a update e-mail with a new download link better expect [...]
