Photography For Real Estate

Scott and Malia have announced the winners in the Lighting For Real Estate video series subscription giveaway. The five winning videos are shown below. Congradulations Barry/Jackson, Sonja, Miguel, Gideon and Angela! Barry MacKenzie (and Jackson) Sonja Quintero Miguel Palaviccini Gideon Payne Angela Madden

This article appeared in USA TODAY last week. Apparently, On Monday, the Senate sent to President Obama legislation that would require the FAA to devise ways to safely allow commercial UAVs (UAVs with DSLRs) to operate in US airspace within three years. This gives formality to the schedule the FAA was already working to. The good news is the FAA [...]

Today dpreview.com posted a series of  interviews with five of the top architectural photographers in the US: Alan Blakely – blakelyphotography.com Chip Allen – chipallenphotography.com Kirk Gittings – gittingsphoto.com Scott Hargis – scotthargisphoto.com Treve Johnson – treve.com Apparently they will be interviewing other architectural photographers in the future.

Malia Campbell sent me this link to her video that she shot for the people that own the property in Ronda, Spain (be sure to view this full screen) where Scott Hargis did his recent workshop. I love the soft relaxing feel of this video. I especially like the underwater shots in the hot tub [...]

Thanks to Zephyr McIntyre for sending me the WSJ article on the sale this summer of the highest priced home in the US. The Spelling Manor a 57,000 square-foot Los Angeles mansion built by the late TV producer Aaron Spelling closed in July 2011 for $85 million, or 43% off its $150 million asking price. [...]

Many years ago there used to be a bumper sticker  they sold here on Maui that read “Ho-hum, another shitty day in Paradise“. Last night we arrived on Maui for a little sun break. About this time of year in the Northwest you tend to forget what the sun and warmth from it feels like. [...]

Thanks to Richard Lamb of Snoqualmie, WA for pointing out that Bruce Willis is selling his home near Sun Valley (Hailey, ID). It was just listed last week for $15M. The article that Richard saw was this one on the King5.com site. Richard’s comment was. “I must say this is some of the worst HDR work [...]

Adobe recently announced that they are changing their upgrade pricing. The details are buried in this adobe post: …For customers who prefer to remain on the current licensing model, we will continue to offer our individual point products and Adobe Creative Suite editions as perpetual licenses. With regards to upgrades, we are changing our policy [...]

Thanks to reader CapitalImagePhotography for pointing out that Amazon has Photoshop Elements 10 for $45.98 with free shipping or download. This is 54% off the regular price. I have no idea how long this discount is for. My guess is that it will last through Monday 11/28 but I don’t know that for sure. If [...]

About a month ago Scott Hargis pointed out the MagicPlan iPhone app to me because we were talking about improving the floor plan diagrams in the next edition of his Lighting book. I downloaded the app but it wouldn’t work on the iPhone 3S I had at the time. Last week I upgraded to a [...]