Photography For Real Estate

Back in the late 1980′s when I started shooting real estate seriously for my wife Levi’s listings. She represented a neighborhood of new homes on the Sammamish Plateau on the Eastside of Seattle. She taught me that when the home was sighted above the street (many homes in this neighborhood were) I was to shoot [...]

I’ve been working on a PAP page today that will list resources for doing Pole Aerial Photography. While I was researching systems for viewing the images you are shooting when your camera is up on a pole, I was thinking about how messy the problem is in that there isn’t one common solution that works [...]

Steve Mather, of the Mather Team in Cleveland, OH, sent me this photo of his low tech, DIY elevated photography rig. Steve calls it his 9.5 foot tripod. He’s bungied his tripod to the top of a fiberglass step-ladder. Steve says it’s stable enough to shoot brackets for HDR/Exposure Fusion. I think it is well [...]

Guest post by Lee Jinks of McAllen, TX: I recently evaluated a 21-foot Wonderpole from Polepixie that is particularly suited for Pole Aerial Photography (PAP).  The thing that makes it suited for PAP over other Wonderpoles is that it’s black.  Okay, that doesn’t mean you can’t do PAP with a Wonderpole of another color, but [...]

I have been eyeing the Eye-Fi Pro X2 SD card for a while now. The idea of having wifi build into your memory card is kind of cool. The feature that pushed me over the edge to buy one is the promise of wirelessly tethering my 5DMKII to my iPad. This video at fstoppers.com demonstrates the way [...]

Guest post by Lee Jinks of McAllen, TX: Pole Aerial Photography (PAP) has gained popularity over recent years, but until lately, entry into PAP required a major investment and/or some serious engineering.  Today there are various low cost products available to those wanting to attempt PAP.  The most economical approach is with a low cost [...]

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to realize how simple it is to see what your point-and-shoot camera at the top of your PAP pole is “seeing”. The basic problem is that with the simple PAP rigs that I’ve described in the past (here and here) , like the polster system, is [...]

Nik who is a PAP enthusiast and a member of  the PFRE flickr group sent me some links on the Polester from www.longshotcamerasystems.com which is a PAP rig that looks like it would be a great for real estate photographers. There are a couple of benefits of the Polester: It’s off the shelf. You get the [...]

I’m a big advocate of using a painters pole to get some extra elevation on your front exterior shots (see: this this post and these posts ). You can use a light weight camera and a painter’s pole, that you can find in any hardware store, to get your camera 10 to 15 feet in [...]

Looking for some good information on elevated photography? Aplanding.com has got an active forum that discusses photography from radio control helicopter and airplane, kites, lighter-than-air, full size aircraft and masts. The forums at aplanding.com are a great place to find parts and advice for building your own elevated photography rigs. As long time PFRE blog [...]