Photography For Real Estate

I want talk about lighting choices for real estate photography. Lighting is probably the biggest challenge for those starting out in real estate photography. There isn’t any one right way to light interiors. I’ve seen beautiful images made with each of these techniques. What I see and hear after talking to hundreds of real estate […]

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Scott Hargis has agreed to fly up to Seattle and present the first ever Scott Hargis Lighting with Multiple […]

There is a wonderful discussion that has been going on for a couple days in the PFRE flickr discussion group. dtruax pointed out that there are several different styles or approaches to interior photography on display in the flickr photo discussion group. One approach uses mostly natural light and the other uses multiple […]

Some say yes, some say no. Reader David Palermo sent me some of his recent work testing HDR processing for interiors. David showed me the following images:

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Some discussions I’ve had in the last week about HDR processing of real estate photos and some articles I’ve run across have got me thinking about how HDR fits into real estate photography.
Anyone that has shot 360 panoramas will immediately appreciate the importance of HDR as a technique to control brightness in a situation where […]

I recently noticed a nice overview of HDR software that is in the Panotools Wiki. I thought that this was one of the best HDR software overviews I’ve seen. This link on the Panotools NG forum which is a forum of panographers that discuss PanoTools, panoramic imaging, and related technologies and techniques, front-ends such […]

It turns out that there IS wireless internet access here at the Skamokawa kayaking center here on the lower Columbia river! So I’m not off the “grid”.
Consequently, I was looking through the PFRE flicker discussions and noticed this one that is particularly interesting on some work that Malcolm Waring is doing. This looks like an […]

First of all I need to point out that this is Scott Hargis’s post. Like many of you I’ve been admiring the way Scott uses a hand full of strobes to light a room to look like an Architectural Digest shoot and still keep the time to shoot a hole home within a few hours. […]

In the flicker discussion group Gary Weinheimer gives us a great example of the difference between using a single strobe (the photo above) and using 3 strobes (the photo below).

Pretty dramatic difference!
The point I want to raise is that after you master the basics like straight walls, correcting lens distortion and getting white balance correct, […]

I just noticed the Flickr.com photostream by Scott Hargis a San Francisco area real estate photographer. Scott has added some commentary to each of his interior shots about his lighting setup. Scott uses multiple (3 or 4) strobes for his lighting. I believe he works with a 20D and 14mm lens. Great example of what […]