Comments for Photography For Real Estate

Comment on Aperture and Lightroom- An Open Letter to Apple and Adobe by larry

larry — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:50:07 +0000

@Alan, Yes, I run 10.6.2 on my MacBook Pro and it’s the newest unibody version that has the NVIDIA graphics card.

Comment on Aperture and Lightroom- An Open Letter to Apple and Adobe by Alan Pinstein

Alan Pinstein — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:08:22 +0000

I am curious — do you run Snow Leopard (10.6) on your laptop? It’s 64-bit and might be a lot faster for something like Aperture. A 2-year old MBP with 4GB of RAM is solid hardware for image editing.

It could also have to do with the video card on your laptop, maybe it’s the lower-end one? Although I thought the MBP’s all had the nicer GPU.

Anyway, those are some things to think about that might help performance.

Comment on PFREtour.com Moving Out of Beta Monday March 22 by christoph

christoph — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:50:42 +0000

This is not “virtual tour” . It is slideshow proud called “virtual tour”.

Comment on Choosing a Entry Level Camera For Real Estate Photography by Steve Kelley

Steve Kelley — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:42:12 +0000

The best entry point, based on price vs. features, is probably Olympus. Some system drawbacks, but plenty of innovative features and world-class glass. Full disclosure: not a fan-boy, but smart enough to get maximum ROI.

Comment on Choosing a Entry Level Camera For Real Estate Photography by David

David — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:47 +0000

Larry
Without doubt the best investment I ever made was spending the bucks, downunder that Sigma 10-20mm was near on NZD$1000, but it was worth it. I started out with a D70, and currently operate D200, considering the next move currently to D300S or alternative, but just love that lens. I see Jerry mentions print size, in all reality in New Zealand the only time resolution comes into play is when we place a photo on one of those large Real Estate signboards, about 1000mm x 600mm, usually no larger. Even then the res from the Nikons is fine, and completely overkill for any website type of photo listing. For the money I don’t think there is any better glass out there.

Comment on A Must See Example of Extreme Real Estate Marketing by Quentin Bacon

Quentin Bacon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:33:37 +0000

Larry,
Thanks for posting the video and the generous comments. I’ve been an admirer/lurker of your site for some time now, your points of view and the stories on your blog where very influential to the development of this approach.

Ron,
Thanks! Much appreciated. On the property site there is a “credits” page featuring Scott and I. There too are creative credits for the musicians. In this context, it’s really about the property, so no credit directly on the video.
Lucas,
I’m a big fan of the “Ken Burns effect.” There defiantly can be a place for this. Remember the video is just one part of the “Living Property Brochure.” Scott’s photography and my additional VR shots offer a good amount of details for the interested buyer to see. Big pan shots also take a lot of screen time and that’s something I’d like to cut down on. We learned a lot on this experience, the next one will defiantly incorporate some refinements.

Thanks,

Quentin

Comment on Choosing a Entry Level Camera For Real Estate Photography by Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:32:34 +0000

Yes there are sharper lenses than the Sigma. I’ve made prints at sizes up to 24 x 36 that were sharp at normal viewing distances with my Sony 10MP camera and the Sigma lens at F/10. As for the distortion, Ptlens works great at removing it.

Comment on Choosing a Entry Level Camera For Real Estate Photography by Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:18:41 +0000

I would also recommend renting before buying, if you don’t have anyone who will let you borrow their compatible lens(es) and/or camera body.

BorrowLenses.com and LensRentals.com are both reputable companies that have great customer service and their prices for renting equipment are pretty good (no, I don’t work for them and I don’t make any money off of referring them, but I feel that I have ultimately saved myself a LOT of money and headaches by renting rather than having buyer’s remorse).

Comment on Choosing a Entry Level Camera For Real Estate Photography by larry

larry — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:47:23 +0000

@Darren- You are exactly right, but it’s around $300 more. There area all kinds of sharper ultra wide lenses with less distortion but they all cost more. For the purposes of this article I wanted to focus on least cost alternatives for getting started in real estate photography.

Comment on Choosing a Entry Level Camera For Real Estate Photography by Darren

Darren — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:21:52 +0000

The Canon 10-22mm is much better than the Sigma, sharper and less distortion.