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 [...]
November 9th, 2008
Ever since I started shooting 360s in 2000, I’ve been on a quest for the ultimate, elegant real estate 360 tour design. For a long time I worked at designing my own. This was my last effort, but I’m not totally happy with it so I’ve never got around to converting it to Flash.
There have [...]
November 3rd, 2008
I’ve done posts in the past on Vicaso. The last one, in March of this year was one of the most popular posts on the blog this year. It’s easy to understand why. Vicaso images are some of the best examples of interior HDR images that I’ve seen. To my eye, they have the right [...]
November 2nd, 2008
I’d like to welcome and introduce a new PFRE advertiser: iPropertyWebsites.com. iPropertyWebsites.com provides single-property websites and will be offering a two for the price of one discount special for PFRE readers all through the month of November. Just mention the PFRE blog to the iPropertyWebsites.com sales staff when you e-mail or call iPropertyWebsites to take [...]
