Photography For Real Estate

Ever since I started using a MacBook Pro, a couple of years ago, I’ve used an external monitor and keyboard but kept the laptop closed a ways away from the external monitor. But after reading Brandon Oelling’s post this weekend on digital-photography-school.com I decided to use the MacBook Pro as a second monitor and try [...]

Yesterday while working with Dale, who purchased my Business of Real Estate Photography e-book, and was trying to use the branding box HTML that is in the book, I discovered that the newest 1.4 version of Slideshow Pro for Lightroom broke my branding box HTML code. This is the trouble with writing HTML for someone [...]

Several discussions I’ve had with readers in the last week reminded me that it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about how easy it is to provide how to provide high quality slide shows to your client quickly and easily for just pennies. First of all here’s why you need to supply a slide [...]

Sean McCormack recently released version 2.0 of his LRB Portfolio which is a slide show template for Lightroom that allows you to create a complete portfolio website with a Home, About, Mail and Contact page and up to six photo galleries. Here is an example of the kind of site the LRB Portfolio will build.

For those of you that are Lightroom users, I suggest you take a look at the two donation-ware e-books that Joe Barrett has over at Image-Space.com. There are two volumes, the first volume covers Lightroom 1.x and the newer second volume covers Lightroom 2. These e-books are tips and tricks and not manuals. I think [...]

Last night late when I brought up Lightroom, it announced to me that version 2.2 was available. This is a free update that includes the long awaited Panasonic DMC-LX3 Camera RAW support that I talked about a few days ago. Click here (Tom Hogarty’s blog) for all the details. If Lightroom doesn’t, announce the update [...]

Beginning real estate photographers that are Mac users face a fundamental decision. Do you use Lightroom or do you use Aperture? While talking to such a real estate photographer this week I realized that for Mac user starting out as a photographer this decision is not that easy. First of all I need to disclose [...]

First of all I want to clarify my description, in yesterdays post, of how the round trip process between Lightroom and Photomatix 3.1Beta works. When you send a group of images from Lightroom to Photomatix 3.1Beta (using the new Photomatix export plugin) Photomatix 3.1Beta does have a feature that will re-import the final processed image [...]

I’m glad to see that the 3.1 version of Photomatix has added a Lightroom export plugin. Photomatix 3.1 is still in Beta. I’ve been using the Beta 8 version of Photomatix for several days and I like being able to use Photomatix from Lightroom. The only downside that I’ve found to the current export plugin [...]

I’ve posted a Lightroom Enfuse video that shows some basics of using Tim Armes LR/Enfuse from Lightroom 2.What I wanted to demonstrate with this screen capture video is how to do the same thing as my Sky Masking Video shows with a lot less work. I think the results are better with Enfuse. After you [...]

Tim Armes recently announced his latest version of Lightroom/Enfuse 3.0. For those of you that are not familiar with LR/Enfuse take a look at my post back in March of this year on LR/Enfuse. In summary, LR/Enfuse is a Lightroom plug-in that provides a convenient interface onto the open source Enfuse application, which provides excellent [...]

I talked about Lightroom 2 and PTlens last month just after PTlens came out but this combination is such a sweet combination for real estate photographers I need to say more. The main point I want to stress is that if you are starting out in real estate photography and trying to decide what photo [...]

I upgraded to Lightroom 2 yesterday like the photo-editing geek I am. I can’t resist a new version of Photoshop or Lightroom. The upgrade was fast and painless for me. Lightroom 2 rebuilds  existing catalogs. It is now more drive aware, allowing a catalog to have photos on multiple drives. I like this feature since [...]

If you are a Real Estate Photographer that uses Lightroom or Aperture what you need is an little application that interfaces with these two applications that will fix lens barrel distortion and converging verticals and doesn’t cost a bundle. PTlens has been close to filling this need for a long time. But the latest version [...]

If you haven’t noticed lately, there is a major “horse race” going on between Lightroom and Aperture. Many beginning real estate photographers are trying to decide which application to buy. Ian Wood wrote a detailed comparison of Lightroom/Aperture Pros and Cons over at O’Reilly DigitalMedia blog that is well worth a read if you are [...]

Back on April 29 I did a post on The Bare Essentials to Get Started in Real Estate Photography and I included Lightroom as one of the essentials on my list. One of the comments on this post asked, “what essential photo editing does it do easier than Adobe Photoshop Elements?” The answer is that [...]

This Beta version is it seems to me unusually “uncooked” to me. Even though Lightroom product managers say not, I think Adobe rushed out this Beta to reveal the cool things they have in the pipeline and counter Apple’s recent release of Aperture. Michael Clark over at Inside Lightroom has a good summary of the [...]

Thanks to Cherie Irwin for pointing out the Adobe released Lightroom 2.0 beta today. See John Nack’s blog and Adobe Labs Lightroom site for more details. I’m going to download it and try it out. There’s appears to be a lot of cool features in LR 2 Beta and there are still a bunch of [...]

The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site. Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided. This decision is based on errors found in the 1.4 release. You might want [...]

I had an interesting time this weekend shooting the same property that I’d shot back in 2004. The property is a funky little A-Frame on a remote lane on Tiger Mt near Issaquah, WA. My wife Levi has sold almost every home on this lane over the last 5 years.