Photography For Real Estate

I’ve had a cancellation, so there’s one seat available for the Seattle Workshop on April 25. Please contact me directly if you are interested. larry (at) lohrman.com.

TourBuzz.net announced two new features for their tours recently:

Canadian Address Support - You can now use TourBuzz in Canada
Customizable Map Location - TourBuzz now shows you where the property is on the map. If it’s mapped in the wrong place or can’t be found, you can drag the marker to the correct position.

Today I noticed that both of my favorite slide show products, buildatour.com and SlideshoPro have new features.
Buildatour.com now has the ability to download your tours to your local computer and make a auto-run CD of the tour. This is a very cool feature. I’ve found that both buyers and sellers love to get CD tours […]

I’d like to thank everyone that is signing up as a potential donor via the link to Scott Kleiman’s in the upper left side-bar. Susanne Hayek told me today that the donor program looking for a match was used to processing about 5 kit requests a week until we put up the link to Scott’s site on […]

Have you noticed the new little logo in your browser to the left of the photographyforrealestate.net URL? This little logo is called a “favicon” which is short for favorite icon or urlicon. This new little logo is thanks to Carson Coots, Houston area Web Designer, Graphics designer , Internet marketing guy, real estate photographer and […]

Susanne Hayek told me today that her good friend Scott Kleiman who is a Realtor at Sotheby’s in Pasadena, CA is very sick with CLL (Leukemia) and needs to find a matching bone marrow donor to survive. Scott was Susanne’s very first client four years ago when she started shooting real estate photography and is […]

I want to point out a few differences here in PFRE’s new home. As I said before the main motivation for the move was added flexibility. There were a lot of things I couldn’t do back at the old blog… like the Feedburner subscription sign up box on the upper right side. With the blog […]

I find it interesting that tourfactory.com is promoting a new service of creating “video” from still shots you send them. An example of one of their new video tours is at the bottom of this page. Yes, I guess this could technically be called video because you could post it on youtube. But more […]

Several people have asked about which of the 3 major Flash player implementations are the “best”. Since it’s been my experience that the image displayed and the size of the equirectangular image used plays a big part in how the image looks I thought it would be instructive to do a comparison of the different […]

Ken Bui from Realivent.com and I were talking about a post I did recently over at geekestateblog.com on large image slide shows. As a result Ken showed me how he could turn my monoslideshow for into a more fully featured property site by using the free property site features that the Real Estate Marketing Platform […]