http://photographyforrealestate.net Tips and Techniques for Real Estate Photography Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:28:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sabrina Huang, a San Jose, CA Realtor that I met at the PFRE Seattle Workshop last April pointed out that I shouldn't excluding point-and-shoot from my review of real estate cameras. She's right, today's point-and-shoot cameras are pretty amazing. I haven't mentioned them because the majority of readers of this ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/18/what-about-using-compact-cameras-for-real-estate-photography/ Last week after I did a post on THE Best Lens/Body combination for real estate photography I got questions and comments like, "What if you don't have a $4,500 budget... whats the best low-end combination?" Well, here's my thinking on the low end choices: http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/16/the-best-entry-level-real-estate-photography-combo/ Chicago, June 12, 2008 — VHT, Inc., a leading provider of visual marketing services, has released the results of its exclusive survey of agents' and brokers' marketing activities. With more than 1,300 respondents, the survey provides a national, look at how real estate professionals, in the US, allocate marketing dollars ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/14/survey-shows-how-much-agents-spend-per-listing/ On Friday I managed to update my "old" iPhone to 2.0 software.  I think iPhone apps and the iTunes app store are the most significant feature of the recent Apple iPhone upgrade circus. Since I'm a hopelessly addicted 360 image geek the first iPhone app I downloaded from the store was ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/13/pangeavr-viewer-brings-360-tours-to-iphone/ I ran across a wonderful little video about Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor who is doing research on how to algorithms for detecting altered photos. Hany is working with Adobe to make his algorithms for fake photo detection widely available. It's amazing to me how much photo modification is goes on ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/11/photo-modification-ethics-for-real-estate-photography/ Several days ago a reader asked me what THE best setup for shooting real estate would be. Until then I'd always been asked what the cheapest one was. At the Seattle Workshop in April I had a chance to shoot with a Nikon D3 and 14-24mm f2.8 for about 20 ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/10/the-best-real-estate-photography-camera-lense-combo/ Apparently Getty Images and flickr.com have struck a deal and developed some tools for Getty Images editors to scan through flickr groups looking for photographic talent. If a photographer is chosen by Getty Image editors. According to the article on techcrunch.com, "Each selected member will have their images licensed through ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/09/getty-image-editors-are-now-looking-at-your-images-on-flickr/ When Aperture 2.0 was released I was skeptical about the product. Mainly because I'd been on the Lightroom bandwagon for a while. However, for some reason I can't explain I purchased a copy and have been using it more and more. It has some pretty amazing features and the more ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/08/use-aperture-to-layout-postcards-flyers-and-brochures/ Think you have enough talent to be the next PFRE Idol? Now's your chance to prove it! Check out details here. With the help and advice of many readers and PFRE flickr group members I've changed the photographer of the month award selection process to remove some of the objections ... http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/07/introducing-the-pfre-idol-award/ Matthew Mallett of Melbourne, Australia has been voted the Real Estate Photographer of the month for July. Runners up were: Tyra Pacheco Linda Sabiston Mike Ortega Tim McEachern http://photographyforrealestate.net/2008/07/07/matthew-mallett-voted-real-estate-photographer-for-july/