March 7th, 2010
Rusty Freeman sent me this amazing real estate photography story this morning. This exterior shot of a San Clemente listing that Rusty shot for Realtor Jerry Barbanell listed at $4.3 million allegedly sold the home in 30 minutes.
Here’s the whole story told by the listing agent Jerry Barbanell. “The buyer came with his agent to [...]
January 24th, 2010
Mike Miriello over at RealEstatePhotographyPodcast.com has decided to add a regular Q & A feature to his Podcast and Mike invited me to join him via Skype to discuss answers to questions sent to us via this Q & A form on his site.
The way this will work is you just send us your questions [...]
January 22nd, 2010
Clark Dugger just sent me a link to an article in the LA Times today by James Rainey, titled “For photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there“.
To me it feels like this article is written from the point of view of someone that has spent their career in print media and now [...]
January 21st, 2010
Today I did a phone interview with Alison Rogers of CBS MoneyWatch.com for a blog post that she just put up on the Ask the Agent blog on the CBS MoneyWatch blog.
This was one of those interviews that you don’t get to choose the questions, but I love having any opportunity to get the real [...]
November 20th, 2009
Scott Hargis’s Brisbane & Màlaga Lighting Workshops: Yesterday Scott announced that he is doing a lighting workshop in Màlaga, Spain and one in Brisbane, Australia. There are only 8 seats in each class so you’ll need to move fast to signup before they are full. Get all the details and signup at Scott’s workshop site.
Rumors [...]
November 18th, 2009
I was delighted to see that the Julius Shulman Film, Visual Acoustics, is finally coming to an art theatre near me in Portland, OR next month. If it’s showing in Portland it’s got to be playing everywhere! If you are not familiar with Julius Shulman, check out some of the previous posts that I’ve done [...]
November 10th, 2009
I want to finally welcome three other real estate photography blogs and a podcast to the real estate photography niche. Here is the run down:
Scott Hargis: Scott is a long time contributor in the PFRE flickr group and is probably best known for the lighting workshops that he and Thomas Grubba do. Scott has been [...]
October 27th, 2009
If you’ve been browsing around on B&H you may have noticed that there’s some instant cash rebates for a lot of Canon gear. Here’s an example. There is a list of all the cash rebates on the Canon site since they are all manufacturer rebates. The rebates are all good 10/12/2009 through 1/16/2010.
Since my friend [...]
October 22nd, 2009
Whoa! Did I get an education today! A couple of my Kiwi readers (Neville and Martin) put me on to the subject of QR (quick response) codes. This is some of the coolest stuff I’ve run into in a long time. It all came out of my post yesterday about mobile phones being important in [...]
October 22nd, 2009
The Lightroom 3.0 Public Beta is available for anyone to try out. It should be understood that this is what it says… a beta version. Adobe does this with Lightroom so they can get feedback from photographers before they do a final release. The features in the final release may vary from what’s in the [...]
October 21st, 2009
I want to pass along another example of the importance of mobile devices because two weeks ago when I suggested that buyers may stand out in the street in front of a listing and look at photos of the inside of the listing I was amazed by how many readers thought that this was an [...]
October 6th, 2009
NEW YORK — The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to flickr, you can thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.
They helped develop fiber-optic cable and invented the “eye” in digital cameras — technology that has given rise to film-free photography and high-speed Internet service, revolutionized [...]
October 4th, 2009
Phil Scott and Dan Milstein, both PFRE Idol Featured Photographers got some media coverage in the Greenwich Time.
According to the article:
“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but when it comes to Greenwich real estate, they can translate into millions of dollars.
From the first click on a Realtor’s Web site, to the glossy brochures [...]
August 15th, 2009
Review of the Canon 17mm f/4 TS-E L: Michael Riechmann just put up the first review that I’ve seen of Canon’s unique 17mm tilt/shift lens. Michael calls it a “remarkable optic”.
Monoslideshow Version 2.0: Monokai has updated Monoslideshow to version 2. I used the old 1.0 version a lot from Lightroom via the free code from [...]
July 20th, 2009
Washington State expanding sales tax to digital products on 7/26/2009: Mike Martin sent me a link to some new sales tax rules announced by the Washington State Department of Revenue. To me this looks like Washington real estate photographers will now have to charge sales tax even if they don’t supply their client with a [...]
