Photography For Real Estate

I recently got an email from Atticfire that reminded me that I haven’t mentioned them for a while. I first discovered the Atticfire 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. Back [...]

Last week I was talking to Kris Bjarne Haug, a real estate photographer in the Greater New Orleans area and noticed that Kris has a site dedicated to his virtual staging product. I’ve gotten mixed feedback from agents and photographers on this subject so I was anxious to get Kris’s perspective on how things were [...]

I’ve always been amazed by how many full blown Photoshop features you get in Photoshop Elements for around 1/10th the price of Photoshop CS5. The new Photoshop Elements version 9 released in Sept of this year takes this concept to the next level. PSE9 now has layer masks, content-aware fill, refine-edge, and improved panorama stitching. [...]

I was watching a live.twit.tv re-run this morning and Leo Laporte was ranting about a new App he was using that creates 360 cylindrical panoramas on the fly as you pan your iPhone around. As a long time 360 image hacker that has spent 100s of hours stitching 360 images, I couldn’t help myself. I blew 99 cents [...]

Every time DxO comes out with a new version of DxO Optics Pro I spend some time with the trial version to see how the new version works. In the past I’ve never purchased it because it felt like it has a lot overlap with Lightroom and its user interface never felt right to me. [...]

Mac users starting out in real estate photography are faced with a choice of whether to go with Lightroom or Aperture for photo management/editing. Back in February I did a comparison of of Lightroom and Aperture just after Aperture 3 was released. Now that both Aperture 3 and Lightroom 3 have been out for a [...]

I recently got an email from Atticfire that reminded me that I haven’t mentioned them for over a year. 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 [...]

In the last few months I’ve talked to a number of real estate photographers who have reached a point in their business that they have become limited in the number homes they can shoot by post processing. This occurs primarily for photographers that shoot HDR and Exposure Fusion. The reality is that once you get [...]

For real estate photographers straightening verticals and removing lens distortion (mostly barrel distortion) is a big deal. For those that use Aperture and Lightroom traditionally, this step in the workflow has required a “round-trip” to PTlens, Photoshop or Photoshop Elements for every image you need to correct manually. The advent of  the lens correction technology [...]

My friend Vince deStefano down in Melbourne, AU just sent me a link to his free sky replacement library and his YouTube video tutorial on how to do sky replacement. I’m going to add Vince’s library and tutorial to the PFRE blog Resource page. Vince and his Propertysnaps real estate photography business are a real [...]