Real Estate Photographers And Stagers Have The Same Customers
Christine Bickley in Brisbane sent me a recent video she and Deb Lindner of Mink Home Staging did explaining the fact that Deb and Christine are “really in the same business – helping people sell properties by creating that emotional connection that attracts buyers, draws them to the property and gets them to pay a premium prices [...]

Beginners Guide To Finding Real Estate Photography Clients
A real estate photographers success is highly dependent on building  business relationships with listing agents in their market area. There are very few businesses where you can make a list of names, phone numbers, email addresses of all your potential customers, but you can in real estate photography since real estate agents are listed on [...]

Another Lens On The List Of Lenses Good For Real Estate Photography
In January Nikon added the Nikon 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED AF-S NIKKOR to it’s wide-angle zoom lineup. This lens is designed as a moderately priced alternative for full frame bodies like the D600. That is, this lens at $750 USD is less expensive than top 3 Nikon full frame wide-angle lens alternatives (14-24mm, 16-35mm and 17-35mm), but [...]

This Week In Real Estate Video #62 – Fitzgerald at Grove Park Inn
This week I want to highlight some more of Heath Cowart’s work that he has done with Michael Phelan and Anne Aldridge of Beverly-Hanks and Associates. Here are the two specific videos which are different versions promoting the Fitzgerald at Grove Park Inn at Asheville, NC : 2012 version 2013 version Here is Heath’s description: [...]

Blending Multiple Exposures With Lightroom and Photoshop
Serge Ramelli has a new video that illustrates how to manually blend multiple images in Photoshop. The photos he’s using aren’t real estate type photos but don’t pay any attention to that. Look at his technique and workflow that he’s using. This technique (multi-image blending) is used by some real estate photographers extensively to deal with [...]

Oregon And Texas Ban Photographing From Drones
It is now pretty clear that what you can do with a real estate photography drone will pretty much depend on what state you doing it in, not so much what the FAA ends up doing. The FAA is taking so long every state in the US will have it’s own state law before the [...]

Adobe Lightroom 5 Has Been Released
Today Adobe Released the final version of Lightroom 5. If you have a previous version of Lightroom you can update for $79. Or for $149 purchase for the first time. Or you can also get it as part of the Creative Cloud. Probably one of the best ways to understand all the cool new features in [...]

Flash For Beginners – Why You Eventually Really Do Need To Use Flash
Various polls that I’ve done indicate that roughly half of real estate photographers use small flashes in their shoots. I feel particularly qualified to talk about how people try to avoid using flash because even though I purchased my first flash (an SB-26) for real estate photography work in about 1995 I managed to avoid [...]

This Week In Real Estate Video #61 – Subtle Island and French Broad Place
Subtle Island, BC – By Jacob and Jamie McNeil, PlatinumHD Propvid Canada: Jacob and Jamie shot this nice little video of Subtle Island, a private Island in the Discovery Islands region just off the Campbell River, for Mark Lester at Sotheby’s in Vancouver. Jacob said that platinumHD was recently announced as the preferred video supplier [...]

Now Accepting Entries For June PFRE Photographers of The Month Through June 15
I want to give another shout out for June contest entries because I probably confused some people that tried to enter the contest when I put of the contest announcement post last Monday. For 10 or 12 hours last Sunday and Monday the contest@photographyforrealestate.net email address didn’t exist because after the blog was moved last [...]