Photography For Real Estate

Peter Meo recently pointed out to me that I’ve never talked about negotiating agency contracts on the blog. He’s right. These kind of contracts are not all that common and I’ve never been directly involved in one. So I consulted Mike Miriello (Mike does the RealEstatePhotographyPodcast) and Thomas Grubba. Mike has an exclusive shooting contract [...]

“What should I charge?”, is probably the most asked question by beginning real estate photographers.
The answer to the what to charge question has two parts:

How much on the average does it cost you to show-up to any property in your territory?
How much should you charge as an hourly rate?

How much to show-up? Anyone in the [...]

I’ve been a enthusiastic DropBox user for some time and have been getting comfortable with the convenience of having important files accessible via a special drive in “the cloud”. In a previous post, I described how to use DropBox for photo delivery.
After seeing Leo Laporte’s coverage of some of the new products this year at CES [...]

The holidays  are wearing off and it’s hard to avoid the fact that it’s time to start engaging again.
In the real estate world it’s still a relatively quiet time that’s perfect for education, reflecting and planning.
At this time of the year I always like to spend some time reviewing what things I did last year [...]

In the last two years we’ve occasionally had the opportunity to hire a real estate photographer because we now live 250 miles south of where my wife lists properties.
I found the most interesting and instructive part of hiring a real estate photographer to be the photo delivery process. One photographer delivered photos attached to an e-mail. [...]

There are a couple of good resources that have come to my attention recently over at the Association of Media Photographers site recently.
The first is the Strictly Business Blog. This blog has a constant stream of great photography business information on it. Just one example is this video on negotiation from a post back in [...]

A readers recent question about providing floor plans made me realize that I’ve never done a post on the subject of floor plans.
First of all floor plans are one of those services like flyers. Some  real estate photographers don’t want to do fool around with doing graphics work. On the other hand if you don’t [...]

I enjoy  doing this blog because it’s an opportunity to have diverse discussions with a wide variety of people around the world. One of the ways I decide to what to blog about is the subjects that come up while talking to readers. When several people I talk to bring up the same subject, it’s [...]

This last week I was helping Clay Baldwin, in Houston find a way to create a presentable, professional looking website for his real estate photography business without spending a bunch of money while he was getting started. Clay is using phanfare.com for tours but needed a way to present his contact information and services so [...]

John Quarles, a real estate photographer in Birmingham, AL passed on this great idea for giving your clients a good reason to not leave you to go with one of those $49 discount real estate photographers.
John uses the Slideshow Pro director version to store all slide shows for all his clients on his web site. [...]

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 [...]

On July 15, 2009 the NWMLS (the MLS used in the greater Seattle area) revised the language in it’s rule that governs the use of images. The new language is as follows:
Rule 192(g) has been revised to state that members may not submit third party copyrighted photographs to NWMLS, if the use of the photograph [...]

This success story is just too good not to pass along to readers! Rusty Freeman (Rusty@Studio ZZZ in the PFRE flickr group) is a studio photographer that works in the LA area and recently got into real estate photography. Rusty is a regular blog reader and purchased both of my e-books and has been following [...]

Alberto and Mia Dominguez have turned their passion for art, design and photography into a successful business in real estate and commercial photography on Vancouver Island in Nanaimo, BC. They are the official photographers of Homes & Living Magazine.
Mia and Alberto both bring  a diverse creative background in art and design to their company. Mia [...]