How Real Estate Photographers Can React To Bubbles
Eros Peterson, a Canadian reader, pointed out this article out to me that was in the Canadian press recently. It’s basically debating the possibility of whether or not Canada is about to have a US style housing bubble. Eros, is convinced there already is a bubble in Canadian real estate, based on the rapid increase in prices [...]

PhilipBloom.net a Resource for Shooting Video
My friend Charles Mackenzie-Hill in Marbella, Spain recently pointed out that I should point out PhilipBloom.net to everyone. Yes, Charles, you’re right. I’m remise for not pointing out Philips site to readers before this. As a student of Cinematography Philip’s DVDs from Fstopacademy.com were one of the first things I purchased after purchasing my 5DMkII. If you [...]

Q & A On the Real Estate Photography Podcast With Mike Miriello
You can listen to the podcast by clicking above or click here to subscribe in iTunes. In this Q & A Podcast Mike and I discuss the following questions: From Ted: What product do you deliver to the customer and how do you deliver it? From Chris: How do I approach a shoot when shooting RAW? From Alice: [...]

Eight Ways To Deliver Photos to Your Client
Mike Miriello and I recorded another Q&A Podcast a few days ago. One of the questions that Mike and I talked about was the old question about how to deliver photos to your client and whether or not to deliver a physical CD. I think there are two distinct phases of a real estate photography business: Building [...]

Bracketing With Flash For Exposure Fusion and HDR
I’m amazed by the number of people I talk to that are mixing flash with the bracketing shots they are shooting for Exposure Fusion (Blending in Photomatix) and HDR. Plus I’ve gotten a number of questions asking how to to shoot brackets with flash. The first question is why? What’s the point of using flash when [...]

Two Ways Real Estate Photographers Can Use Customized Google Maps
A couple of weeks ago I promised not to do screen grabs of Google maps for land listings any more. Turns out you can do almost anything you want by building your own custom Google map. Here’s how it works. In the comments of this previous post Neil from Missouri pointed out that you can use [...]

The Miracle of Optical Triggering For Real Estate Photography
In the last few weeks I’ve had several questions relating to the basics of optically triggering flashes while shooting real estate. Scott Hargis did a post on PFRE  three years ago that is a concise summary of how to approach off camera flash when shooting real estate. However this post doesn’t mention the miracle of optical triggering (frequently [...]

Just When You Thought Property Videos Were Stagnant
Every once in a while Brett Clements shoots me links to show off what he and his team at Propvid Queensland are up to. As a student of video I love analyzing and studying the work the Propvid folks do.  I am continually impressed with their ingenuity. In this most recent video they take on the challenge of promoting [...]

Bad MLS Photos – Warning! Viewer Discretion Advised
This series of Bad MLS Photos is brought to you by John Cummins of HoustonHomeImages.com. This series demonstrates that the real estate photographer must always be aware of what’s going on both inside and outside when images are composed. Thanks John you made my day! Update Aug 24, 2010: This is a good lesson in copyright. Most of [...]

Proof That Great Photography Sells Homes
Yesterday I noticed that Kris Bjarne Haug over at Papilios Real Estate Photography in the New Orleans-Baton Rouge area has some fantastic statistics that he is using in his marketing. With the help of  Latter & Blum, Inc (a broker site in the New Orleans- Baton Rouge area) Kris has compiled a months worth of traffic statistics [...]