November 8th, 2011
Last week I was talking to David Eichler about the options for great looking slide shows. David thought that Slideshow Pro was flash only. It’s not. Generally there are two kinds of real estate photographers: Ones that don’t have any inclination or desire to fool around with HTML and would rather just use turn-key tours. [...]
November 2nd, 2011
Several things have got me thinking about this subject lately: I’ve seen several real estate photographers websites recently where the presentation of the gallery images detracts from the impact of the images. This principle is my 10th essential of my 10 essentials of real estate photography and I’m rewriting this section in the third edition [...]
October 23rd, 2011
Ethan Tweedie a photographer on the big Island of Hawaii who is moving into real estate photography sent me a link to a tour of a listing he shot of a $28 million listing. This is exactly what every real estate photographer needs, a great upper-end listing for their portfolio. First off I want to congratulate [...]
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 [...]
July 5th, 2011
A while back I did a post on Marc Angeles. in LA who had a YouTube video that had the video track shutdown because Marc had used some copyrighted audio (Marc has since replaced the track with some non-copyrighted music). J Miller raised the question, “how do you find legal music for videos”? Good question. [...]
June 2nd, 2011
Estella Sneider showed me one of her recent shoots that she shot for Mauricio Umansky of the Umansky Group in Los Angeles/Beverly Hills. I noticed that Estella’s tour is built around Slideshow Pro Director which nicely handles the issue of universal access. That is, making sure your tour/gallery looks good on Flash and non-Flash platforms. Many [...]
April 18th, 2011
John Quarles, of Birmingham, AL who is on a quest for the best way to host his property videos pointed out to me last week that the SlideshowPro.com Director hosting is a very useable and inexpensive way to host property video and slide shows that you want viewable on any computer or mobile device. This [...]
March 24th, 2011
Because my wife has been a 26 year listing agent and I spent 10 years helping her list homes I tend to see the world, much of the time, as a listing agent. One phenomena that has always amazed me is the magic effect of giving the home seller a DVD with photos of their [...]
March 20th, 2011
Allan MacKenzie of Brisbane, AU sent me an example of a home he shot recently. He’s posted both stills and video to this SmugMug slide show format. I’ve seen other real estate photographers use this SmugMug slide show format which allows you to post both stills and video in the same tour. On the surface [...]
January 19th, 2011
Wow, the response to the post I did last Friday on How Do Your Real Estate Tours And Slide Shows Look On The iPad? demonstrated there is a lot of energy out there on this subject. I thought it may be useful to show an example of a cool little slide show building product that [...]
