May 27th, 2009
According to Dpreview.com, “Canon has announced a firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR enabling manual exposure when shooting videos. With the updated version, users will be able to manually adjust the shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings in the video mode. The new firmware will be available for download on 2 [...]
March 30th, 2009
Long time PFRE reader and Seattle Eastside Realtor, Tony Meier is breaking new ground by doing his own video tours. Tony showed me this video tour that he’d shot with his Canon 5D MkII, 17-40mm lens, one meter slide and 501HDV panning head.
Tony is understandably proud of this tour. I think he did a great [...]
March 15th, 2009
Today while following a thread in the PFRE flickr discussion group about virtual tours I noticed a link that Fred Light has on his site to an article titled “Sell Your Home With Video Tours” and a video clip from a recent episode of ABC’s Good Morning America.
The message of the article is:
360 tours used [...]
March 4th, 2009
I’ve done a couple of posts on the subject of shooting time-lapse for real estate views and I am infatuated by the time-lapse feature on my G9 recently. However, what I’ve been looking for is a technique to pass along that anyone can use with out regard to what computer or DSLR they use. So [...]
February 1st, 2009
Allan and Lisa MacKenzie are Open2view.com Area Franchisers for South Brisbane, AU. Allan has completed video training at the Queensland School of Film & Television. Allan and Lisa are introducing video to their agents. After seeing Allan’s videos that he posted to the PFRE flickr group I asked Allan to do a guest post on [...]
January 30th, 2009
I just got my copy of the Apple iLife 09 suite two days ago. iLife 09 contains, among other software (like iPhoto, iDVD and iWeb), iMovie 09 which is a significant update to the previous versions of iMovie, video editing software. The Gizmoto review of iMovie goes through the new features of iMovie.
January 26th, 2009
Now here is a fine piece of real estate! Dan Achatz just showed me this video he shot yesterday with his new Canon 5D MKII. For those gentle readers not familiar with the Northwest US, this is Haystack Rock at Cannon beach on the Oregon coast. Without a doubt the most photographed rock in Oregon.
Since [...]
November 3rd, 2008
A warning to those doing real estate video. Many video posting sites have started banning commercial or advertising videos. Specifically, people have told me that sites like spike.com, vimeo.com and blip.tv have such policies. There may be others as well. Reports are that vimeo.com will delete real estate videos, close your account and notify you [...]
October 22nd, 2008
Kim Perina of Scottsdale, AZ pointed out a recent article in the The Arizona Republic about real estate photographer Andrew Beneze who according to the article, “… turned his back on his cushy corporate job when he and his wife opened Next Edge Video out of their home in Goodyear’s Estrella community.
Their company isn’t even [...]
October 7th, 2008
The post I did last week on David Gibbons’s example of a time lapse video of a view inspired me research the subject of time lapse and do some time lapse video clips of my own.
Here is what I found out:
David described how to shoot time lapse with Nikon Capture, the same thing works just [...]
September 29th, 2008
Check out David Gibbons’s example, over at geekestateblog.com, of a time lapse video of Elliott bay in Seattle, that he shot with his D70, PowerBook G4, Nikon Capture.
What a great idea! I’m thinking that Canon shooters should be able to do this same thing with Canon’s RemoteCapture software. I’m going to try this out with [...]
September 28th, 2008
Animoto is a site that will automatically create an animated video with music, created from a series of still photos. Last year at this time when the company started I created a couple of videos. One from as series of my real estate front shots and one of my grandson Avery. The one of Avery [...]
September 24th, 2008
It’s getting harder and harder to avoid the subject of video in real estate photography these days. Unless you’ve been under a rock you’ll notice that the subject of web based video keeps popping up all over:
New DSLRs with HD video capability.
The central role of video editing in Adobe’s CS4 release event. Adobe says, “end [...]
September 13th, 2008
Back in June a friend from Australia showed me a video tour done by Brett Clements of Propvid. This last week while searching for a way to improve the quality of my screen capture videos I stumbled across Brett’s HD videos on Vimeo.com. Brett’s video work is stunning and vimeo.com provides a stunning platform for [...]
June 2nd, 2008
I’ve been accused of being negative about using video for real estate. That’s a bad rap, I just have high standards!
Recently someone asked me to show an example of good use of video for real estate. Well, here it is. This video is done by Propvid, an Australian company based in Sydney, Melborne, The Gold [...]
