Photography For Real Estate

This last weekend when I was getting lots of feedback on my first try at moving the PFRE blog to a new theme. Nick De Clercq, a brokerage owner and real estate photographer in Gent, Belgium suggested the Magazine style theme that I’m currently testing on the PFRE test blog. I’m liking Nick’s suggestion much [...]

Last night Jeffrey Hogue a Pennsylvania Realtor sent me some photos of his bucket truck that he has painted to promote himself as a listing agent and photographer. When is the last time you saw a real estate agent that believed strongly enough in marketing and photography that they would go out and buy a [...]

I heard from Cam and Laura yesterday, a husband and wife real estate photography team that operate Urban Images in Brisbane, AU. Cam and Laura are celebrating their fourth year in the real estate photography business this month. Here’s how Cam and Laura describe their success: I just wanted to drop you an email to share [...]

David Eichler of Daly City, CA sent me a link to his blog where he has two of really stunning images of a shoot that he did recently of Rancho del Eliseo. Nowadays every like someone sends me I hit it with my iPad to check to see if the images are visible because there [...]

I like to feature as many success stories as possible. Here’s another successful real estate photography business that involves the whole family. This is a real estate photography family if there ever was one. It consists of Alberto and Mia Dominguez (Mom and dad), Pam and Mandy (oldest daughters) and Santiago and Gabby (younger teenagers). [...]

Yesterday I answered several emails from struggling real estate photographers complaining about how tough it was out there and how hard it was to compete and answered some blog post comments that suggested that what I was preaching was totally unrealistic. It takes more than that to get me off message, but I was starting [...]

If you are in the LA area go checkout PFRE reader Luke Gibson’s show, “The Architecture of Los Angeles – Through the Lens of Luke Gibson”, you only have two more weeks to go see it at the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles, at their headquarters in the Wiltern Building, at Wilshire & Western, [...]

This weekend I talked to Russell “Rusty” Freeman who has been a long time PFRE reader. Rusty has been building and operating a real estate photography business in the LA for a number of years. Long time readers will remember many of the posts we’ve done about Rusty (just type “rusty” in the search box [...]

LA real estate photographer Russell “Rusty” Freeman has been a long time PFRE reader and contributor. Yesterday, Rusty sent me his video on “How to make Fresh Salsa & Guacamole”. Real estate photographers need Salsa & Guacamole too so I thought I’d pass this recipe on. I’m definitely going to try one or both this [...]

A shoot by PFRE reader Tim Furlong, Jr. of Louisville, KY is featured today in the US edition of the WSJ. I love this front shot! I think it is well composed and the colors really pop. It makes the viewer want to click and look through the rest of the photo set. The interior shots [...]

Estella Sneider showed me one of her recent shoots at 1380 Bella Oceana Vista in Pacific Palisades, CA. This is the Realtor.com listing. I think Estella did a lovely job! The photos have a nice crisp sparkly look and feel. I think she’s done a nice subtle job lighting it. This was a beautiful day [...]

Peter Brandt, a long time PFRE blog reader is interested in Architectural images as art. Peter has been a commercial photographer for 45 years and has shot architecture in Miami, London, Las Vegas, and Montreal. He has shot fashion, advertising and even shot for Playboy magazine. In recent years his interests have moved to photographing [...]

David Eichler showed me the post on his blog about a recent shoot that he did for Ken DeLeon of Keller Williams in Palo Alto, California, who is on track to be the number one real estate agent in the US this year, in terms of dollar volume. Here is the property web site for this listing. David [...]

I’d like to publicly thank Suzanne and Brad Feinberg for their generosity in volunteering to help me coach real estate photographers in getting their shoot prices up to a level where they can run a viable business. There were several real estate photographers that took me up on my offer to help them get to [...]

Marc Angeles, a real estate and architectural photographer working in the LA area contacted me several days ago to tell me he was a PFRE blog reader and to pass along his story of success in real estate photography in the LA area. I love passing on stories like this of how real estate photographers [...]

Mike Gardner, a Malibu Realtor and photographer, just showed me this great listing he shot for Jeff Chertow and Caroline Lindqvist, of Pritchett-Rapf & Associates in Malibu. Mike says he shot 1200 images and distilled the presentation down to the images you see in the slide show. I have to say, I like the presentation that [...]

Last week I got a request from Fire Control-man First Class, Robert Kendzierski aboard the USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser conducting air defense and anti-piracy operations off the coast of Pakistan and Somalia in the Arabian Sea, with the US 5th fleet. Since Robert is a photographer, when he’s not deployed, chasing Somalie [...]

Just recently Robert Barr, a relatively new real estate photographer, that works on the Eastside of Seattle told me that, “my business is doing GREAT!  I had 4 gigs so far this week and may have one more before the week is over.  I am officially making more money now then I was at my previous job.” Robert is charging [...]

Last week I got a real estate photography update from Alberto and Mia Dominguez of Artez Photography in Nanaimo, BC. I’ve done a couple of posts in the past on Alberto and Mia’s business. Mia reports that: We started thinking about creating a video package since early 2010 but the process took longer than expected, [...]

Yesterday I talked to Michal Pecek who’s is starting a real estate photography business in Bratislava, Slovakia. I had to brush up on my geography to locate Bratislava. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary. For some reason I am continually amazed how much real estate and the real [...]