April 23rd, 2008
Rob Jordan of Enhance Design responded to my post on flyer design and redesigned my flyer for me (see the redesign to the right),
Rob raises a number of great points. Robert says:
Hi, I’m an avid reader of your blog. I’m a graphic designer so I just had to comment on your recent blog post […]
April 20th, 2008
In the process of beta testing my upcoming real estate photography business kit, that includes flyer and brochure templates I’ve had some questions and discussion about why make flyers and brochures and why you’d want to use Photoshop do so.
The biggest motivation for making flyers is that as a real estate photographer you have everything […]
April 14th, 2008
When you are in a business that consists of putting out your phone number and e-mail address to potential clients and trying to get them to call you, changing phone numbers or e-mail addresses is like hiding from your clients. Recently I got an e-mail from a real estate photographer telling me that his e-mail […]
September 27th, 2007
Kris Steels was asking about the issue of getting access to homes for photographing and raise some questions that I’ve not discussed on the blog although I’ve discussed this issue with several folks via e-mail. So I thought it would be a good subject to bring up for folks just starting out in RE photography. […]
September 26th, 2007
The chart above (I know you can’t read it- follow the link to a readable version of this chart. “Market summary” of “King County”) shows how the inventory in King County, WA is now higher than it’s been at any time in the last 5 years by a significant amount. Based on recent news […]
August 23rd, 2007
I ran across an article by Andrew Brown in The Guardian (newspaper in the UK) via John Knack’s blog, titled We all helped to speed the demise of professional photographers. It talks about the commodification of photography.
This brings to mind the complaints that I hear all the time from RE photographers that so many Realtors […]
August 1st, 2007
Recently I was talking to reader Jeff Cospolich about ways to setup an online delivery method for his real estate photography clients. As usual I was promoting my do-it-yourself method of getting space at a web hosting company and using website maintenance application like Dreamweaver or Lightroom to create galleries and […]
July 4th, 2007
Drew King sent me this link to an explanation of the rules now in force at Reuters for the use of Photoshop. Obviously, this has no direct link to real estate photography but I though it was interesting to see the photo modification rules in the photo journalism world… Reuters doesn’t even allow in-camera sharpening! […]
June 26th, 2007
Judging by the traffic on the blog and the number of comments on this subject the ethics of modifying real estate photos is a topic of high interest. So I’ve attempted to improve the wording and summarize previous posts and comments and suggestions on the ethics topic and create a page that has a link […]
June 25th, 2007
I don’t know how many of you noticed it but it but HighPix Commercial Photography BRISBAN commented on the post I did titled “When Does Wide Become Too Wide?” They quoted article 35 of the Standards of Business Practice of the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ). Article 35 says:
“Article 35 - Photographic Representation
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