Photography For Real Estate

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 [...]

Charlotte Rosato-Alessi sent me this humorous video yesterday. Charlotte said: This past week I was shooting a home for a realtor. It was the homeowner that insisted on a professional and while I was shooting the home the realtor announced to the homeowner that she just purchased her own DSLR so she could take these [...]

Estella Sneider, a real estate photographer who works the Beverly Hills area sent me this link recently to the Wall Street Journal article that she got on a listing that she shot in the Beverly Park neighborhood. You’ll have to forgive me for listing this post in the Humor category. But there is just too [...]

For regular readers this video needs no introduction, but for those new readers or those of you that may have missed their earlier videos (this one, and this one) that PlatinumHD.tv did for Neo Property. A little back story may help appreciate this video. Adrian Jenkins (the boss in the white coat) and Ian Adams of [...]

From the HuffingtonPost: It’s been more than a week after Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service went down, taking sites like Reddit, Quora and Foursquare with it. Amazon is finally issuing an apology and in-depth explanation on how and why the cloud service failed so spectacularly. Read the whole article here. This was the same outage that [...]

Brett Clements points out that Brisbane, Australia has a bunch more waterfront property than it did just a few weeks ago. This Platinum HD video promotes Mark Creevey and Tony Williams who specialize in dealing with conditions in a down market. I suspect that they’ll be popular agents in Brisbane for a while. I can’t [...]

Back in November I gave my backup MacBook Pro to a up an coming young 11 year old photographer friend that wants to learn video and photo editing. Since I don’t like to be without a backup machine I bought a new iMac. When purchasing the iMac on the Apple site the configuration panel now [...]

Some agents are more capable of narrating their property videos than others. An then there is Stuart Darcy of Ray White, in Mermaid Beach, Queensland, Australia. Stuart doesn’t just narrate his property video, he gives an award winning vocal performance. Stuart recorded the sound track for this property video of his listing at 3 Gallieo [...]

Thanks to PFRE blog reader Julie Mannell for pointing out this interesting post on the Seattlebubble.com/blog last week by Tim Ellis pointing out that this very same cloud pattern was photographed by real estate photographers over Seattle, the Bay area, San Diego and Portland. First of all why would anyone replace skys in Seattle? Everyone knows [...]

Apparently this ad has been playing on late night TV recently. Gizmoto says this is from the same studio that brought us the Snuggy commercials. Wow, 2 Cameras, 2 Roll of film and no post processing! How can you pass up this offer?

This series of Bad MLS Photos is brought to you by John Cummins of HoustonHomeImages.com. This series demonstrates that the real estate photographer must always be aware of what’s going on both inside and outside when images are composed. Thanks John you made my day! Update Aug 24, 2010: This is a good lesson in [...]

Sometimes when you are doing marketing copy being painfully honest is the best approach. This marketing copy is brilliantly simple and unforgettable. This little commercial is a kick, but it’s just the “tip of the iceberg”. This commercial was done by Rhett and Link over at ilovelocalcommercials.com. These two guys show the power of a [...]

This is just too funny to pass up!

Thanks to Justin Soles for passing this link on to us. It’s from IntoTheBox.tv. This is one of the funniest video’s I’ve seen in a long time on real estate video.

I’ve pointed out Saskatoon agent, Norm Fisher’s really funny presentation of bad real estate photos before but it’s so funny I think it is worth featuring again. I feel like inventing a real estate marketing award for Norm’s presentation. I was reminded of this subject by the fact that Athol Kay, a Connecticut Realtor got [...]