May 9th, 2012
Joanna Michl, who does real estate photography in the Greater Philadelphia Area ask for some feedback on this twilight shot because she says she doesn’t do many twilight shots. First of all, from a marketing point of view, a great twilight exterior shot is the single most valuable photo that you can have on a listing. Steve [...]
November 14th, 2011
Thanks to Harry Lim in Orlando, FL for pointing this video out to me. This is a meticulous demonstration by Roger Brooks, a Architectural and Interior Photographer in Vancouver, BC demonstrating a lighting/post process layering technique commonly used in high-end Architectural Interior photography. Note that I show it here as an educational illustration of how many Architectural [...]
August 28th, 2011
About 10 months ago when it first came on the market I did a post on the LightTrac iPhone App. The guys from LightTrac saw the post and are now going to give PFRE readers some free copies of LightTrac as a promo for their up coming version 2.2 for the iPhone/iPad. See below on [...]
June 15th, 2011
Mike Gardner from Malibu sent me one of his recent shoots of the Birdview Property that overlooks the beach at Malibu. Mike says that on this shoot he bracketed the white balance. That is, on each of the interior shots he made exposures with white balance set for the exterior (windows) and other exposures with [...]
June 7th, 2011
A very real issue in real estate photography is perspective distortion. It comes up all the time because real estate photographers use wide angle lenses which are famous for two types of distortion: Barrel distortion: This is a lens defect prominent in ultra-wide zooms where straight lines near the edge of the image are curved. [...]
August 26th, 2010
I’m amazed by the number of people I talk to that are mixing flash with the bracketing shots they are shooting for Exposure Fusion (Blending in Photomatix) and HDR. Plus I’ve gotten a number of questions asking how to to shoot brackets with flash. The first question is why? What’s the point of using flash [...]
June 20th, 2010
A reader recently told me, “I know you don’t think the 14mm (full frame) lens is suitable for RE work, but I have found that to be quite the opposite! I have the Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens (the finest lens I have ever owned hands down for RE work!!) & I use it @ 14mm [...]
April 15th, 2010
In Part 1 of this post I showed examples of the fact that three, brackets are not always enough to capture the full dynamic range in a scene. And posed the question, “how do you make sure you capture the full dynamic range?” There are several methods: Shoot more brackets than you need: With this [...]
January 28th, 2010
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 [...]
