This week we have a variety of videos to show you. The overall theme is an idea that Mike Miriello mentioned when he sent us his video he did recently. That is as photographers and real estate agents video is creeping into our lives whether we like it or not. Even if you think of [...]

For those getting started in real estate photography in many ways the software tools you use are every bit as important as the gear tools you use. we get many questions about what software to use for real estate photography. While there is diversity of opinion of what you need we think it is valuable [...]

The May Photographer of the month is now closed for more entrants and the jury will soon start their deliberations. We have a bunch of great entries! To check them out click here or on the photo to the right. We will have a winner picked in 7 days. I’ll then then post the [...]

About a month ago we went on a rant about so many readers using Flash, Java etc that can’t be seen on mobile devices and Terry Iverson rightly accused us of not eating our own dog food, since our site still used Flash based 360s and slideshows. Who me? Okay, okay, so I’ve got [...]

Posts that I’ve done in the past discussing gear to get started in real estate photography have been some of the most popular posts on the blog. Every year or so we like to revisit the subject. The underlying assumption here is that you want to get started with the lowest possible cost. First some [...]

Up until this week I’ve been featuring only real estate video from YouTube. While there are some huge potential exposure benefits from using YouTube there are also some obvious aesthetic downsides to YouTube like the clutter of related video and advertising. You can control some of the clutter but not all of it. Agents and videographers that [...]

Joanna Michl, who does real estate photography in the Greater Philadelphia Area ask for some feedback on this twilight shot because she says she doesn’t do many twilight shots. First of all, from a marketing point of view, a great twilight exterior shot is the single most valuable photo that you can have on a listing. Steve [...]

I just ordered a hard copy  and a Kindle copy of Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 4 book for digital photographers. The hard copy is in stock and shipping at Amazon. I’m in the habit of getting an updated edition of this book every time a new version of Lightroom comes out. It makes a great reference [...]

Thanks to Kerry Bern of Gladbrook, IA for pointing out this listing in Ames, IA. we have a theory that a good way to find real estate agents that need a professional photographer is to just look through active listings in any given area starting at the high end and see who is doing what for marketing. [...]

John Sembrot pointed out recently a post on agbeat.com about the continuing debate on syndication. Jim Abbott has a follow up statement on the issue of listing syndication that he raised in late January of this year. John raised the questions: As photographers we would think that as a group we would support non-syndication? we [...]