Photography For Real Estate

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 excellent [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]