Photography For Real Estate

Macworld is in progress this week so every thing Mac is being announced and hyped. Terry White has a 45 minute podcast that walks you through the features of the new version 6 of Photoshop Elements in the up coming new version due out the end of March. You can download it directly from […]

Jerry Swanson of Eagan, MN says: “… use the Canon 1Ds with Aperture. After ten months I still have not learned all the features. The Apple Store has experts to teach the program but one hour a week is not great. …I have been using Aperture and have found this a long learning experience.”
Is there […]

It’s time to do another post on replacement skies. I put it up a page of free skies to use back in March of last year. However, the link is so buried in a long list of links on the right hand side-bar of the blog and I doubt if many people notice it. There’s […]

I spent the day yesterday (Monday 11/12) and I am excited about passing on several ideas that I picked up. The most exciting is that Dave Cross (the instructor from Kelby Training) talked about bracketing using camera raw which is something I’ve talked about briefly in a couple of previous posts. The idea is that […]

Recently a reader asked me if every image needed sharpening. The answer is yes when you are downsizing images for web use like real estate photographers do all the time, sharpening is necessary for every image.
About the same time I was reading an excellent article in Photoshop User Magazine called Pro Sharpening Workflow in Lightroom […]

The post I did on atticfire was extremely popular. I asked the guys at atticfire if they would talk about their shooting and work-flow process but not unexpectedly they declined to share any secrets with us.
There was a bunch of traffic on the atticfire post from a forum on CGarchitect (”A global community for Architectural […]

Back in April I did a post on a technique for making composite images with masking in Photoshop. The photo above is from that post and is the result of combining one exposure of the sky with another exposure of the house, foreground and trees. Of coarse the trick with this technique is creating a […]

Darren over at digital-photography-school.com posted a tutorial that is if interest to RE photographers that are not using Photoshop CS3. The tutorial, called Stacking Images shot without a Tripod illustrated how to stack and align images using PTAssembler (shareware) or Hugin (free).
The problem is if you want to shoot several images so you can blend […]

Yesterday Adobe  released an updated version of Photoshop Elements for Windows with the Mac version due early in 2008. Now that I’m a Mac user I feel left out. Wired has an an article on the release. Macworld says PE6 has a new Photomerge and Quick Selection Tool… hopefully the same one that is in […]

Lots of good comments on the last post about straightening walls. There are several of the comments that are worth expanding on.
The best way is to get the wall right while shooting. Absolutely, do everything you can to get the walls straight while shooting like using a tripod and using the right and left […]