Photography For Real Estate

Just last week I was looking at the Google Translate Widget at the top left side-bar wondering if it was really being used and if I should leave it there. Yesterday the friendly universe gave me a clear answer- “YES people are using it.. leave it there!”. Alex Grekov of St Petersburg, Russia contacted me [...]

Last night I noticed there had been a spike of eight votes in one photo that before that before that time had only had one vote. I contacted the owner of the image and he told me he was just promoting his image on FaceBook and a bunch of his friends had come over to the [...]

Last week I did a couple of posts (here and here) on the subject how presentation of real estate photography is a huge factor for the photos to do their job and for the real estate photographer to look their best. Yesterday a Google alert pointed out a newly listed at 11206 Laurie Dr, Studio [...]

The two reader polls on what lens do you use and what DSLR do you use back in November of 2011 turned out to be very significant and insightful. Unfortunately that post has moved down to about the third page of the blog so people that need and want to see it probably won’t find it [...]

Update: Here is the DPreview preview. Here is the complete text of the Canon announcement: LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 25, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today introduced a new addition to its Rebel lineup, the EOS Rebel T1i Digital SLR camera, the first in the Rebel line to feature Full [...]

VISUAL ACOUSTICS, the documentary film on Julius Shulman, is slated for a 2009 summer-fall theatrical release by Arthouse Films.  The DVD release should come in late 2009 or early 2010.  Arthouse, which describes itself  as the place “where art and films collide,” is an independent production and distribution label specializing in films that showcase art [...]

If  you’ve not discovered it yet, check-out alltop.com. It is Guy Kawasaki’s aggregation site that is a beautifully designed, very handy directory of all the top sites on the net (including PFRE as of today ). For example, there is a page for every major subject they list and the Photography page lists all the [...]

May the Holidays and the New Year bring health, happiness and prosperity to all of you and yours. Thank you to all the readers, sponsors and participants of the PFRE community that have contributed to make this a useful community for real estate photographers. Click here or on the photo above to view a Computerized [...]

I’ve decided to “eat my own dog food“. This is a software development catch phrase for practicing what you preach. In my demise of GM post I suggested that you listen to your customers so I’d like to hear from you. I’ve created a Polldaddy.com survey to collect your feedback. I have a free polldaddy [...]

I just got hold of some previously unreleased video of Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski and other attendees of Scott Hargis and Thomas Grubba’s LA lighting workshop that was held in August of 2008.

I was rummaging around on youtube and ran across this talk that Uwe Steinmueller (Editor of Digital Outback Photo) did about a year ago at Google’s PhotoTechEdu Day series. While Uwe talks about HDR in general I think you will find his HDR discussion useful in the real estate context. Uwe has done a lot [...]

See, I predicted yesterday that since the print media is cratering that all these unemployed print media photographers would be moving into real estate photography and this morning I wake up to a post by David Hobby on real estate photography. What can I say. Seriously, David has a wonderful series of real estate shots [...]

I’m back home from an relaxing week of family reunion activities. Turns out the location we choose for this years get together, Mt Shasta, CA, was clouded all week (and still is) in smoke from the hundreds of forest fires raging in California. I managed to catch one shot of Shasta when the smoke cleared [...]

I’d like more feedback about how you feel about the current PFRE photographer of the month process. I’ve created a poll for you to give me feedback on the right side-bar below where the July nominees for photographer of the month are listed. Also feel free to send me e-mail on this subject. I want [...]

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.

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’ve had a number of people ask me about linking to photographyforrealestate.net and linking to the PFRE e-Book order page. So I’ve finally made some little ad graphics and HTML “snipits” that can be used to either link to the e-book order page or just link to the blog. The four different graphics are to [...]

In Seattle, each night during the Christmas season a large Yacht with carolers (the Christmas ship) visit various public beaches around Lake Washington. Seattle boaters decorate their boats with lights and follow the Christmas ship to join in the festivities.