Photography For Real Estate

For those that may not have noticed Jeremy Esland’s thread in the PFRE flickr group recently, I think it is worth posting here again. This before and after gallery is from ampimage.com. The owner of the site, Ashley Morrison, specializes in interior and hotel photography. Ashley works with Marie McMillen an interior designer when shooting [...]

Using flash with HDR is becoming a very common technique. In this video real estate photographer Michael James demonstrates how he uses a Visual Echoes Better Beamer Flash Extender to light dark porch areas in exterior shots.
While Michael is demonstrating this technique with HDR, there’s no reason this technique has to only be used with [...]

Back in January I did a post on a sweet little iPhone application to help you find out where the sun or moon is at any given time in any geographic location.
Well here’s another iPhone app that takes sun calculation to a completely new level. Unfortunately the price is a whole new level too. This [...]

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 had a request to do an article on shooting twilight exterior architectural photos. I realized that I’ve never written a complete summary of the process of shooting a exterior twilight shot.
First of all, doing a twilight shoot is almost always a special trip so most real estate photographers list a separate price for doing [...]

In the process of working on a chapter of my e-book covering interior composition I came across a couple of shots of a little condo we sold last year that nicely illustrates the pros and cons of a three wall shot compared to a two wall shot.
The upper shot on the right, is effectively a [...]

Check out David Gibbons’s example, over at geekestateblog.com, of a time lapse video of Elliott bay in Seattle, that he shot with his D70, PowerBook G4, Nikon Capture.
What a great idea! I’m thinking that Canon shooters should be able to do this same thing with Canon’s RemoteCapture software. I’m going to try this out with [...]

Tim Armes recently announced his latest version of Lightroom/Enfuse 3.0. For those of you that are not familiar with LR/Enfuse take a look at my post back in March of this year on LR/Enfuse. In summary, LR/Enfuse is a Lightroom plug-in that provides a convenient interface onto the open source Enfuse application, which provides [...]

I’ve been working hard this summer on the second edition of my Photography For Real Estate e-book. I’m going to make several improvements in both the content and the way I distribute this e-book:

I’ve had several comments and questions about my blog header image that’s along the top of the blog now so I thought I’d do a post on the story behind this image since it is one of my favorite images.
First of all thanks Shaun for pointing out that the original image that came with this [...]

Thanks to Dave Moore studios for pointing out the atticfirearchitecture.com site.
Atticfire is an architectural photography team working out of Savanna, Georgia that claims to shoot 8 spaces a day (5 shots above the industry standard). Remember, this is not real estate photography this is architectural photography where 3 spaces a day is the standard because [...]

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 [...]

I have found my mission in life and it is to make sure all the walls in real estate marketing photos do not have converging verticals!
There is something about making walls straight that is hard for photographers to get. Apparently, it just isn’t obvious that walls like the ones above detract from an image. [...]

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Realtor Norm Fisher has put together a hilarious presentation on how unbelievably bad real estate photography can get. The “hold on, I think we are going over” shot is my favorite.
If you watch the presentation to the end you’ll see that this “tour” does more than show bad photos, it is a promotion [...]