Photography For Real Estate

My friend Charles Mackenzie-Hill in Marbella, Spain recently pointed out that I should point out PhilipBloom.net to everyone.
Yes, Charles, you’re right. I’m remise for not pointing out Philips site to readers before this. As a student of Cinematography Philip’s DVDs from Fstopacademy.com were one of the first things I purchased after purchasing my 5DMkII.
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Every once in a while Brett Clements shoots me links to show off what he and his team at Propvid Queensland are up to.
As a student of video I love analyzing and studying the work the Propvid folks do.  I am continually impressed with their ingenuity.
In this most recent video they take on the challenge of promoting [...]

Brett Clements sent me links to a couple of recent videos that his company, Propvid Queensland shot. Click on the images to view the videos. For some of you that are not familiar with Australian real estate, most real estate in Australia is auctioned and these videos are spots for an Australian real estate auction company.
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Back in early July when I did a couple of posts on real estate video Scott Cooper made a comment on a post I did about a year ago on The Bare Essentials for getting Started in Real Estate Photography. Scott is getting started in real estate video and wanted me to do a post [...]

Wow, the last post on using video was hugely popular. It got the most traffic of anything I’ve talked about in several weeks. There was also a lot of great reader insights in the comments of this post. There are many more people shooting video and getting good results than just a year ago.
I can [...]

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 [...]

Several days ago Brett Clements, founder of platinumhd.tv based on the Austrailian Gold coast left an insightful comment on a post I did earlier this year on the subject of the market for video in real estate photography.
Brett’s comment is worth highlighting. Brett said:
“To date, we’ve produced over 6,000 real estate videos in our little [...]

Making YouTube videos is something you want to have in your real estate photographer bag of tricks. Putting a slide show on YouTube for your client is getting more popular. For example Herb from Tourfactory.com says that when agents purchase a Tourfactory.com tour they also get a Youtube video along with the tour because is [...]

Scott Hargis just put up a post on his blog that has a stunning example of extreme real estate marketing that is worth taking a look at. Scott gives the behind the scenes story of a project he worked on with Quentin Bacon and others. The total marketing involved a video, aerials, and stills.
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I was asked the following question recently: “What is the market for video with Real Estate? Does it have a place in the future or are agents not interested?”
My answer was, “The market for real estate video is, I think, large. The problem is that it’s more difficult to shoot video   than shooting stills. [...]

Thanks to David Lenhert for sending me this link to a beautifully done time-lapse by the David and Dan Newcomb  and the Interlife Project, of Vancover, BC.
Vancouver is a beautiful city and is coming to life right now because the 2010 Winter Olympics that start Feb 12 in Vancouver and Whistler, which is the  my all time [...]

Sometimes when you are doing marketing copy being painfully honest is the best approach. This marketing copy is brilliantly simple and unforgettable.
This little commercial is a kick, but it’s just the “tip of the iceberg”. This commercial was done by Rhett and Link over at ilovelocalcommercials.com. These two guys show the power of a video [...]

Thanks to Clark Dugger for passing along the link to this very beautiful, poetic, Full CG animated piece that “tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.” It’s very abstract but has many sequences that are wonderful. For more [...]

Joel Burselm over at Future of Real Estate Marketing did a post recently that highlights some new wild and crazy technology by a Dutch company, yellowBird.
While I have to admit this technology is different and entertaining, I disagree with Joel’s statement that, ” This most definitely this has implications for real estate marketing.” Sure you [...]

Recently WelcomeMat released a report on video usage in real estate. Among other things it reports that real estate video usage was up 95% in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. I think the report should more clearly state that the data from this report is from the WelcomeMat [...]