Showing Schedule For Julius Shulman Film Visual Acoustics
I was delighted to see that the Julius Shulman Film, Visual Acoustics, is finally coming to an art theatre near me in Portland, OR next month. If it’s showing in Portland it’s got to be playing everywhere! If you are not familiar with Julius Shulman, check out some of the previous posts that I’ve done [...]

Announcing The Real Estate Photographer Stimulus Package
I’m a little late in posting today because besides caulking my windows for the winter, I’ve been trying to think of some way I can help stimulate the real estate photographer profession. Why? Because this morning Fed Chairman Bernanke came clean and admitted that unemployment will get worse before it gets better. I decided what I’d [...]

WelcomeMat-95% Increase In Video Usage In First Half Of 2009??
Recently WelcomeMat released a report on video usage in real estate. Among other things it reports that real estate video usage was up 95% in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. I think the report should more clearly state that the data from this report is from the WelcomeMat [...]

Some Real Estate Photography Market Insights From Rusty In LA
I got an e-mail yesterday from Rusty Freeman in LA. Rusty said: Larry: Just wanted to tell you about an MLS search we completed this past week on the local board. We searched the county for all homes $2 mil & up. Found over 1,000 listings. … I was looking for [...]

Three Other Real Estate Photography Blogs and A Podcast Worth Checking Out
I want to finally welcome three other real estate photography blogs and a podcast to the real estate photography niche. Here is the run down: Scott Hargis: Scott is a long time contributor in the PFRE flickr group and is probably best known for the lighting workshops that he and Thomas Grubba do. Scott has been [...]

Do You Have All Of Your Eggs In One Basket?
I enjoy  doing this blog because it’s an opportunity to have diverse discussions with a wide variety of people around the world. One of the ways I decide to what to blog about is the subjects that come up while talking to readers. When several people I talk to bring up the same subject, it’s [...]

The Reason Why Real Estate Photography Marketing Must Be Targeted
In my Real Estate Photography Business book I use a distribution curve from a 2004 National Association of Realtors (NAR) income study to demonstrate why it’s so important for real estate photographers to target their marketing.  The NAR income study shows that: In 2004 the median income for Realtors who had been in the business for [...]

Two More Applications For Correcting Verticals, Barrel Distortion and More
In the interest of covering a broad range of software alternatives for correcting verticals, barrel distortion I want to summarize two other applications: ShiftN: A reader pointed out this free Windows only application to me. I’d heard of it but never tried it before. Since I recently purchased Parallels for my Mac, so I can tryout [...]

PTLens: Correct Verticals, Barrel Distortion, Vignetting, Chromatic Aberration
Several recent questions and comments from readers made me realize that the posts I have on PTLens are several years old. Ever since I’ve been doing this blog I’ve been recommending PTLens as an alternative for fixing verticals and barrel distortion but as of the summer of 2008 Tom Niemann released a version of PTLens [...]

PFRE Idol For November: Nick Jones
Congradulations to Nick Jones (flickr handle “bit fishy bob“) who has been voted PFRE Idol for Nov 2009 by the PFRE flickr group. Nick serves San Diego County, CA. Nick is the second winner in a row from the San Diego, CA area. Nick’s winning image to the right is some what reminiscent  of Julius Shulman’s [...]