This weekend I had the chance to take a few ice pictures during a brief period when the snow was melting. As an interesting exercise, I thought I would critique some of the better shots from that shoot. I didn’t get any award winners, but perhaps a critique of why they are not award winners may help me correct this in the future.
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 seem to like the shots, I more and more feel that I should move towards the strobist approach. Mainly I feel that the lights are blown out, as well as the windows with views. I tried creating HDR pictures from some of my shots but the results looked fake so I didn’t use them. The following is a panorama I took that wound up on the top of the flyer.
In the ultimate comment to my shots though, was the fact that several agents commented about the pictures and the property sold after being on the market for less than a week. While the Seattle market isn’t nearly as depressed as elsewhere in the country, that is still pretty impressive given the current state of things.