At the same time I had the opportunity to try out an Alienbees light for real estate, I also had the opportunity to try out two lenses I have been thinking of.
Canon 14mm 2.8L
Canon TS-E 24
I currently use the 16-35mm 2.8 II for all of my real estate photography, mounted on a full frame sensor. [...]
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To be honest, I was a bit upset at my last real estate shoot. I didn’t think the pictures came out very well and a number of my coworkers agreed. There were numerous problems with them such as
Not correcting for verticals
Blown out areas from the flash
Shadows
Some parts of the photos were too dark
I had a [...]
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This weekend, I had the opportunity to shoot my first property over one million dollars (1.243 million to be exact). The property is in a hot neighborhood and is priced hundreds of thousands below its competition, so I was excited to finally shoot a house like this. The house was also the largest I have [...]
On Thursday I receive a call from Nelya at work. She had finally received permission from the bank to list the house! “Great”, I replied. “We can photograph it this weekend”.
Of course, we didn’t have until the weekend. The property had to be listed that day. The real estate world does not wait for photographers, [...]
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Recently I have started playing around with multiple off camera lights with my real estate photography. I use a Canon 580EX and 580EX II triggered with three Pocketwizard MultiMAX units.
By the way, my wife wanted me to mention that this home has already sold, but if you would like to discuss selling or buying a [...]
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OK, I wouldn’t exactly call this technique “new” because I suspect a large number of real estate photographers already use it, but for me it is new. Before I get into explanations about the workflow, here is one of the shots.
First the basics. This is not an HDR shot and was taken in a [...]
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Recently I had the chance to take some shots of one of my wife’s properties. I am still working on my real estate photography, and I am not yet at the stage where I really want to be. I currently take all of the shots with my 16-35 2.8 II on a tripod. Although people [...]