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CalevPhoto

Photographing the Earth, one millimeter at a time…

New lessons in real estate

While I haven’t discussed real estate photography here much during the last several weeks, I have been extremely busy photographing houses.  The market has definitely picked up and I now photograph at least one or two houses a week – even though I currently only work with two agents!

While I am happy that I made the switch to HDR, I have still been working on getting the colors right and improving my photos.  In this post, I will discuss some things I have learned during the last few weeks.

Lesson 1 Windows do not always need to be the correct temperature

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Posted 2 years, 8 months ago at 12:53 pm.

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Upgrading to a new camera – lessons learned

Finally, my Canon 5D Mark II is on its way.  However, from this process I have learned quite a bit about my old camera and how I will handle camera upgrades in the future.

The day after the 5D Mark II was announced, I decided to preorder it.  At first I was very skeptical of the camera, but in the end I decided that a camera with basically the same sensor as the 1Ds Mark III, without the AF and the weather sealing but with video was a good deal at $2700.

After reading on a rumor site that the camera would be released early, I called Buydig to see when my camera would ship.  They confirmed that it was coming soon so I sold my old 5D in October.  Unfortunately, this turned out not to be true so I have had to get by without a camera for the last two months.

Being without a camera for so long and watching as people started unboxing their Mark II’s has left me with the following conclusions.

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Posted 3 years, 2 months ago at 2:35 am.

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