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Example of A Realtor-Photographer Using YouTube Video

July 6th, 2010

As a result of the recent post I did about creating YouTube videos with a mixture of video and stills and music, John Nilsson of Vail, Colorado showed me one of his recent YouTube videos that he put together. John shoots his own listings and shoots for other agents in the Vail area. You don’t [...]

Meet Jaak Nilson: A New Real Estate Photographer in Estonia

March 19th, 2010

I had an interesting discussion today with Jaak Nilson, in Tartu, Estonia that has been a professional photographer for 20 years. During that time Jaak has done architectural photography, stock photography, weddings and events. One of Jaak’s projects was photographing over 30 shopping centers in Estonia, Finland and Sweden for Citycon group. The photo to [...]

TV Host of Dra Corazon Program Is A Real Estate Photographer

December 3rd, 2009

A few months ago Estella Sneider, the TV host of Dra Corazon, (a Ph.D Clinical Psychologist and marriage and family therapist) e-mailed me and was showing me the real estate photography work that she was doing in the LA area.
Turns out that Estella’s TV hosting gig doesn’t get in the way of shooting real estate and she [...]

Real Estate Illustrator Adds Real Estate Photography To His Services

October 17th, 2009

One of the greatest enjoyments I get from doing this blog is hearing stories from readers of how they have been able to build a successful real estate photography business. About 35% do real estate photography full time and about 47% do real estate photography part time. I hear from many folks that are using [...]

Highlighting Photography Of Realtor John Nilsson Vail, CO

January 6th, 2009

I recently exchanged e-mails with John Nilsson of Vail, CO. His e-mail signature give several links to his current listings:

www.373StrawberryParkRoad.com
www.5111BlackBearLane.com
www.Torzetto.com
www.WestinRiverfront350.com
www.105ForestTrail.com
www.211MainMinturn.com

I’m very impressed with Johns work. John does his own photography and worked with his web developer to create this simple but unique design for a home tour. As I told John, I think he has [...]

Matthew Mallett Voted Real Estate Photographer For July

July 7th, 2008

Matthew Mallett of Melbourne, Australia has been voted the Real Estate Photographer of the month for July.Runners up were:

Tyra Pacheco
Linda Sabiston
Mike Ortega
Tim McEachern

Meet Sylvia Guardia M: Real Estate Photographer of The Month

June 9th, 2008

Those of you that frequent the PFRE flickr photo discussion group lately may recognize this photo and other images that Sylvia has been posting.Sylvia lives in San Jose Costa Rica, is 25 years old and graduated in Photography from the Veritas University, Costa Rica in 2004. Her web site is: www.sylviaguardiam.com.

Jeremy Esland: Real Estate Photographer of The Month

May 12th, 2008

Anyone who has been active in the PFRE photo discussion group recently has seen Jeremy’s Esland’s work and and seen all the constructive help and advice that Jeremy gives. Jeremy is a real estate photographer that works out of Algarve, Portugal and is my pick for the May PFRE real estate photographer of the month. [...]

David Palermo: Real Estate Photographer of The Month

April 9th, 2008

This month I’ve selected David Palermo as the PFRE photographer of the month. I’ve admired David’s work for some time now. I first noticed David’s stunning cockpit photos that he shot at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. These images caught my attention because shortly before I first saw David’s cockpit photography I’d done [...]

PFRE Real Estate Photographer for March: Dan Truax-Weston

March 5th, 2008

I’ve chosen Dan Truax-Weston (dtruax in the flickr group) as the PFRE real estate photographer for the month of March. Dan is based in Escondido, CA (North of San Diego) and has been doing real estate photography for about a year.I picked Dan because I’ve been watching his work improve over the last 6 [...]

Thomas Grubba: Real Estate Photographer of the Month

February 6th, 2008

As I described in an earlier post, once a month I’m going to choose a real estate photographer of the month from the PFRE real estate photographer directory. My criteria for selecting will be the photographers work, the way the work is presented on their website and their participation in PFRE and the PFRE flickr [...]

A Stunning Entry Shot By Matt Stec

June 22nd, 2007

For those of you that don’t frequent the Photography For Real Estate reader photos I wanted to highlight what I think is a particularly stunning photo by Matt Stec a real estate photographer who works out of  Auckland, NZ.I think that Matt has done an outstanding job of composing and lighting this image. He uses [...]

Combining Real Estate Photography And Tour Hosting

June 6th, 2007

I just ran across an article and audio interview over at Small Business Trends Radio on how Kelly Thomas the founder of www.sihometours.com has combined real estate photography with tour hosting as a business. There is a 50+ minute audio interview at the bottom of the page. I noticed this article because Kelly signed up [...]

An Elegant Image by M. James Northen

March 26th, 2007

I was recently looking through the images on M. James Northen’s web site after he’s made a comment on photographing upper-end properties. M. James works out of Vero Beach, Florida an shoots for premiere real estate companies, multi-million dollar builders, custom cabinet and kitchen designers and interior decorators in the southeast Florida area.
I chose this [...]

Another Name For Virtual Tour – Property Website

February 8th, 2007

Susanne Hayek, a Real Estate Photographer in Arcadia, CA sent me a request to be in the RE Photographer Directory today and I was looking at her website and noticed several interesting ideas I though others could benefit from.
The first is the concept of a property website. For $300 she creates a web site for [...]