Last week I blogged about whether to expand into bird photography or expand my reach in macro photography. I have been giving this a bit more thought and right now I have ruled out buying a large telephoto, mainly because I realized that with two small children I will not be able to find the time to go out and wait for them. Definitely in the future I plan to do this, but not right now.
Currently our budget is locked down, but with the real estate market getting better here (my wife had two sales this week) it looks like somewhere at the beginning of May the funds will be released from my stock photography sales and I can go ahead and make some purchases. However, again it comes down to what things I want to focus on. With bird and wildlife photography removed, the following are the avenues I can take.
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Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 5:15 am. 5 comments
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.
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Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 5:15 am. 4 comments
