Photography For Real Estate

First of all I want to thank AndyAnderson76541 for letting me talk about his photo in this post. I’ve been admiring the look of the HDR shots that Andy shoots from his pole with a Panasonic Lumix LX3. I’ve also been giving him a bad time about having cars in the driveway. Like his original [...]

Tourbuzz Full Browser Mode: I pointed out earlier that Tourbuzz was doing some updates to their tour product. In the final release they have a new feature I really like. They call it “full browser” mode. Very cool! They essentially remove all the branding stuff and make the photos fill up the whole browser window [...]

I first discovered the Atticfire site and did a post on it back in Oct of 2007. Since that time participants in the PFRE discussion group managed to reverse engineer how the Atticfire team creates the dramatic effect in their images.
Because back in 2007 I pestered Eric Prine to tell me what they were doing [...]

I got a question about from a reader last week asking about the best way to create a fire in the fireplace with Photoshop. He said he had seen the tutorial that shows how to put flames on text but having trouble making the jump to making a fire place look convincing.
Yes, there is more [...]

I noticed that the Layers Magazine site has a nice tutorial by Sean Duggan on Exposure Blending In Photoshop. I did a post about a month ago that covered specific use of this general blending technique that covered dealing with  interior windows.
The thing I like about Sean’s article is that it nicely complements my post. [...]

When you are shooting a home with a view, there’s nothing more important to the home owners and listing agent than seeing stunning view through the windows. You want to make the windows look like someone took out the glass!
From a photo editing standpoint what you’d like is have complete control of the interior and [...]

I quit my Photoshop 12 step program and have been using Photoshop CS4 since last Wed (10/15). This version Adobe has a download distribution so PS addicts don’t have to wait for the mail system to get our updates.
The big question is CS4 worth $199 to update? Well as I see it, there aren’t many [...]

Seems like I just bought and upgrade to Photoshop. Yea, I looked it up and it was just 19 months ago that I bought PS CS3. It’s probably not worth paying $199 to upgrade every 18 months but I have something to admit: I’m hooked. I can’t live without the latest and greatest version of [...]

I ran across a wonderful little video about Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor who is doing research on how to algorithms for detecting altered photos. Hany is working with Adobe to make his algorithms for fake photo detection widely available.
It’s amazing to me how much photo modification is goes on in advertising but even more [...]

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 [...]

Ever been forced by circumstances to shoot a real estate front shot with a vehicle sitting in the drive way? I have; I see cars in the driveway of real estate front shots all too much. They distract from the purpose of the photo. But I also understand that you can be forced to choose [...]

Doing quick Photoshop masks for sky replacement or window replacement on interior shots is a frequent need that real estate photographers have.
The crux of creating such masks is that the mask edges are never clean and simple. Like the image in my demonstration video, the mask between the sky and the foreground can be complicated [...]

I learned about lynda.com about a year ago when I chose the one month subscription to lynda.com as the Adobe thank you gift for registering my updgade to Photoshop CS3. I’ve been using it off and on ever since then and I’ve grown to love it as a way to keep up-to-speed on new software.
There [...]

I’ve been hearing good things about Viveza, a Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Aperture Plugin, by Nik Software. So decided I’d try out the free 15 day trial package.
In short Viveza is a plugin that allows you to quickly and easily make selective adjustments to an image much like you would by using masking adjustments in [...]

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 [...]