October 19th, 2011
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 [...]
October 17th, 2011
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, [...]
September 25th, 2011
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 [...]
September 24th, 2011
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 [...]
September 22nd, 2011
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 [...]
September 14th, 2011
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 [...]
August 16th, 2011
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 [...]
August 9th, 2011
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 [...]
July 13th, 2011
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 [...]
June 20th, 2011
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 [...]
