Photography For Real Estate

Today Bill26 of Broomfield, CO (just North of Denver) became the 5000th PFRE flickr group member. Bill says, I am married with a three-year-old  (on my lap right now – difficult to type). I have been a serious amateur for several years, mostly in landscapes. However, in the last year or so I have become interested [...]

Here is a slide show of some of  my 2010 favorites from the PFRE flickr pool. Be sure to click the full screen button for maximum effect. Looking at a slide show like this I can’t help but marvel at the number of people doing top notch professional level work. For those of you that missed [...]

Andy Frame (flickr handle andyframe) from Lake Worth, FL, a long time participant of the PFRE flickr group just told me that last month he was hired to shoot the 2950 ton, 281′ motor yacht Cakewalk for a 12 page article in the Dec/Jan issue of  Showboats International. You can see many of Andy’s photos from this [...]

Thanks to ‘Kris’ Bjarne Haug for putting me on to another cool way to look at flickr. It’s called Flickriver.com. Flickriver is a web-based Flickr viewer that allows viewing hundreds of flickr photos quickly and easily, in one seamless “river of photos” view, never needing to hit next to load the next page. It also allows [...]

I am a rabid TED enthusiast and just had pass this recent TED talk along by Chris Anderson who is the organizer of TED. You may think this has nothing to do with real estate photography but I think it does. The single biggest idea that I’ve learned from doing this blog and associated flickr group is [...]

A couple of days ago Milia Campbell (TulipChain Photography and TulipChain flickr handle) pointed out to me that we should have a separate flickr group for HDR and Blending in real estate so that all the there would be a separate place to post and discuss HDR and Blended images. As you know if you’ve [...]

Since this is the time of the year for best of year reviews, I thought it would be fun to go through the PFRE flickr group postings for 2009 and select my favorites and create a flickr favorites slide show. It took me about 4 hours in two sittings to make it through all the [...]

First of all, thanks for all the input and ideas from everyone. Besides all the detailed comments on the previous posts, I’ve exchanged a lot of e-mail and flickr mail with people on the subject of a subscription forum site. I appreciate and respect everyone’s input and ideas.

Recently a number of participants of the PFRE flickr group have requested a discussion group that is more civil and controlled than the PFRE flickr group has become. Several of the popular mentors in the flickr group have left because they felt abused or disrespected by the group. This is frustrating because the PFRE Flickr [...]

Today the Photography For Real Estate Flickr Group went over 2000 members. While this is not that big as flickr groups go (Strobist has 37,955 and Adobe Lightroom has 7,231) I think the amount of collaborative learning that goes on in this group is amazing. I hear stories almost everyday of how valuable people find [...]

Recently some Australian participants in the Photography For Real Estate flickr group suggested that it would be nice to have a discussion forum where the unique business and market considerations of Australia could be discussed separately from the global discussion of real estate photography that goes on, on the current PFRE flickr group.

Ron Kenny (captainronsphotos) discussed an idea for using the flickr discussion group for reviewing home shoots at the Seattle workshop. The basic idea is that it would be nice to use the flickr discussion group to get more eyes on all the photos from a shoot you are about to send to a client. An [...]

John Muir in the  PFRE flickr discussion group pointed out a youtube video made by Jennifer Kirby. Jen isn’t saying anything earth shaking that we don’t all know but it’s great to hear it coming from a Realtor once in a while.To me this kind of video clip is a great way for Realtors to [...]

There are a couple of threads in the PFRE flickr discussion group I’d like to point out: Scott Hargis gives a good Copyright Primer. Scott gives some good suggestions for heading off infringement before it happens. Jon May started a discussion on pricing and passes along a link to a pretty good article on business [...]