July 3rd, 2009
Alberto and Mia Dominguez have turned their passion for art, design and photography into a successful business in real estate and commercial photography on Vancouver Island in Nanaimo, BC. They are the official photographers of Homes & Living Magazine.
Mia and Alberto both bring a diverse creative background in art and design to their company. Mia [...]
June 21st, 2009
I want to point out that Herb Dierks of Tourfactory.com gave us some very valuable insights and advice in his comment on the last post; too valuable to pass up!
Herb said, “can your slide show be uploaded to YouTube? How many cell phones are capable of viewing it? From my perspective, photographing real estate [...]
June 18th, 2009
I just got a Slideshow Pro newsletter announcing Slideshow Pro for Lightroom version 1.4.6. This version introduces a significant new feature: Ken Burns Panning. Slideshow Pro calls it Pan and Zoom. I updated my version of Slideshow Pro and changed my slide show for our rental property to use Ken Burns panning. It took just [...]
May 18th, 2009
In the past few months I’ve gotten several questions about how to “Embed” Slideshow Pro slide shows that are created with Lightroom. The questions were:
Is it possible to embed a Slideshow Pro slide show in e-mail?
What is the HTML required to embed Slideshow Pro slide shows into a website at Apple’s me.com?
May 8th, 2009
Tourbuzz Full Browser Mode: I pointed out earlier that Tourbuzz was doing some updates to their tour product. In the final release they have a new feature I really like. They call it “full browser” mode. Very cool! They essentially remove all the branding stuff and make the photos fill up the whole browser window [...]
April 23rd, 2009
David Hobby, over at strobist.com, gives a great example of how to put together a nice little no cost property site using the free blogs anyone can get at blogger.com. You can get similar blogs at wordpress.com for free. Wow, I hope David’s listing agent appreciates what a fantastic client she has. I’ve never seen [...]
April 21st, 2009
Last week the Tourbuzz.com guys (Alan Pristein and Paul Rodman) announced that their new Flash player is in beta. I think the new, low profile, hide-able thumbnail controller bar is a great addition. Here is what the new player looks like. They’ve been polling users to see what people think about removing the older style [...]
April 16th, 2009
Yesterday while working with Dale, who purchased my Business of Real Estate Photography e-book, and was trying to use the branding box HTML that is in the book, I discovered that the newest 1.4 version of Slideshow Pro for Lightroom broke my branding box HTML code. This is the trouble with writing HTML for [...]
April 8th, 2009
Chad Jones recently pointed out to me that he uses agencylogic.com property sites and his clients love them. Chad says the features his clients particularly like are the full screen slide shows, SMS text with sign rider system and online template designer for unlimited designs.
I pass on reader recommendations like Chad’s because I think there’s [...]
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 19th, 2009
What do floor plans have to do with real estate photography? I know many of you will be saying nothing! This last week I talked to two readers who are real estate photographers and offer floor plans as an add-on product to a home shoot.
Bjarne Haug (’Kris’) showed me his 2D and 3D floor plans [...]
February 3rd, 2009
Recently I discovered phanfare.com, a photosharing site that has pretty nice Flash slide shows. I ran across the site because Michael Burke of naturalight.us uses a phanfare slide show for his Architectural photo gallery.
I like this slide show format because the photos are LARGE. The are as big as your browser screen and have a [...]
January 15th, 2009
Tourbuzz.com just started a public beta of their new Flash player and time-line based tour controller. I tried it out on some of my demo panoramas and I like it a lot. Tourbuzz is making the player available to customers as a beta version so they can get input from users.
As Alan Pinstein of Tourbuzz [...]
December 9th, 2008
I noticed that TourFactory has a new tour design. There are several things about this design that I really like:
The huge photo size gives an opportunity to show off great photographs. The area for photos in this design is 1235 x 680 and the tour itself is about 1343 x 967. I’ve always felt large [...]
December 2nd, 2008
PFRE reader Terry Roden of Calgary, Canada is launching a new tour product called Quicksilver Tours a Flash tour that combines a still photo slide show, Cylindrical and Spherical Panorama Display, Integrated Google™ Maps, Royalty-free Audio Library, Realtor® Logo and Contact Information, and Realtor® Accounts (For Photographers to manage multiple Realtors®). Click on the photo [...]
