Photography For Real Estate

I had another post planned for today but when my wife Levi erupted in laughter at her computer just now and showed me these photos on an email flyer she got today for a listing in Tacoma, WA, I felt that despite the fact I’ve already given two beginning photographers a lecture today on verticals I need [...]

Thanks to Kerry Bern of Gladbrook, IA for pointing out this listing in Ames, IA. I have a theory that a good way to find real estate agents that need a professional photographer is to just look through active listings in any given area starting at the high end and see who is doing what for marketing. [...]

Real Estate photographer Jukka Töyli of Tampere, Finland has a problem. His client he shot a listing for says: “Is it possible to make the pictures look worse? The problem we are having is that people are coming to see property because of your pictures, but when they come to the property they are disappointed because it does’t [...]

Today is the day for a short post because I’m sick in bed with some kind of nasty bug. Here is a humorous little video done by  Chris Gilmour who is the number one real estate agent in Queensland, AU (and very likely the world). Chris lists or sells a property every 26 hours. Not bad! It [...]

Over the years I’ve made it a habit to occasionally pass a long some of the sites that feature bad MLS photo. It’s frankly amazing how many of these sites there are. These sites are always good for a few laughs. Here are several sites that I’ve come across recently: Bad MLS Photos Terrible Listing [...]

Thanks to PFRE reader Chris Wood for passing along this article in the Houston Agent Magazine about a real estate so bad it has gone viral. What a way to get exposure for your listing. Any listing agent that has ever listed a home that has an uncooperative tenant in the home while it is [...]

The Manifesto: Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent [...]

It seems a little crazy that a cell phone video should be in any way comparable to the Canon 5D MKII. But the fact that the comparison looks so good is startling and makes you think about what’s happening with technology and miniaturization. The comments from the guys that did the comparison are a good summary that puts [...]