February 20th, 2007
Real Estate Photographer Cherie Irwin’s two comments on the previous post are worth highlighting. Cherie says says she has increased her revenue by 25% just by offering custom slide-shows on CD.
I can attest to the fact that both sellers and buyers love photo CDs with a slide-show or virtual tour on it. I’ve been […]
February 20th, 2007
From Ohs Remodel
Yesterday downloaded the Lightroom 1.0 trial version to use until the distribution CD I ordered gets here. I was pleased to find so many new features have been added since the last beta version.
I particularly like the straighten feature that allows you to rotate an image. There’s still no way to distort an […]
February 20th, 2007
I need to highlight a comment that Hojin Chang a Realtor in SW Orlando just made so that everyone sees the link he pointed out. Hojin points out that there is a excellent free Property Photography e-book/site on Nick Stubbs’s All Things Photography web site. This property photography site has a huge amount of information […]
December 21st, 2006
Last week I was talking to Dawn Shaffer a real estate photographer and virtual tour provider in the Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR area. Dawn is the second PFRE reader I’ve talked to that is happily using Real Tour Vision. Earlier this year Sharon Nymann, a Realtor in the Key Largo area, reported that she […]
December 10th, 2006
Over the last two years writing this blog I’ve come to believe there are some basic aesthetic guidelines that makes real estate photography effective. I see so many Realtors and even practicing real estate photographers oblivious to these fundamentals that I feel compelled to write them down. Here they are. I’ve also added an ad […]
November 19th, 2006
I got an e-mail advertisement for the home above yesterday. This realtor’s image reminded me how difficult it is to get a good front shot of some homes that sit high above street level. For those readers that don’t see the problem with this shot and understand why this home looks so weird I […]
October 12th, 2006
Twilight exterior shots can add drama to otherwise uninteresting exteriors. They also can hide blemishes. The twilight photo above and it’s companion daylight photo below is a great example of this dual purpose of twilight images.
The twilight version above is very simple visually. It shows the architecture through the lighted windows and barely lit roof. […]
