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Using Stitched Images in Real Estate Photography
Posted on November 16, 2007
I’d like to comment and elaborate on a discussion thread that is going on in the Photography For Real Estate flickr group. I’ve noticed quite a number of folks using stitched images for real estate photos.First I need to admit that when I first discovered stitching I used an image of a large master bedroom [...]
Posted in Panoramas | 8 Comments »
More on Straightening Walls
Posted on September 24, 2007
Lots of good comments on the last post about straightening walls. There are several of the comments that are worth expanding on.
The best way is to get the wall right while shooting. Absolutely, do everything you can to get the walls straight while shooting like using a tripod and using the right and left [...]
Posted in Photo Editing, Photo Technique | 3 Comments »
How Do Lightroom Users Fix Barrel Distortion & Converging Verticals?
Posted on July 29, 2007
A discussion going on in the Flickr PhotographyForRealEstate discussion brought to my attention that other Lightroom users are going through the same evaluation of Barrel distortion and vertical fixing that I’m going through after my recent addition of a MacBook Pro to my tools.
Here’s the problem:
If you are a Lightroom user you need an application [...]
Posted in Photo Editing | 8 Comments »
Lightroom 1.1 Moves Closer to Being The Only Photo Editor You Need
Posted on June 28, 2007
If you already own Lightroom and have used it in the last few days it will have automatically asked to be updated to version 1.1. Version 1.1 is free and has some pretty nice features. The two I like the best are sharpening, noise removal and clarity. Uwe Steinmueller over at outbackphoto.com has one of [...]
Posted in Lightroom, Workflow | 9 Comments »
Proposed Real Estate Photography Code of Ethics
Posted on June 25, 2007
I don’t know how many of you noticed it but it but HighPix Commercial Photography BRISBAN commented on the post I did titled “When Does Wide Become Too Wide?” They quoted article 35 of the Standards of Business Practice of the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ). Article 35 says:
“Article 35 – Photographic Representation
Members [...]
Posted in BusinessProcess | 27 Comments »
A Stunning Entry Shot By Matt Stec
Posted on June 22, 2007
For those of you that don’t frequent the Photography For Real Estate reader photos I wanted to highlight what I think is a particularly stunning photo by Matt Stec a real estate photographer who works out of Auckland, NZ.
I think that Matt has done an outstanding job of composing and lighting this image. He uses [...]
Posted in Real Estate Photo of the Week | 9 Comments »
When Does Wide Angle Become Too Wide?
Posted on June 18, 2007
I got a e-mail from Dom, a German photographer that wanted to raise the issue of “over doing it” with ultra-wide angle lenses. He says:
“But there´s one point I´m straightly opposite to yours and that´s the lens.
I would recommend just a 28-35mm lens on 35mm/fullframe (d)SLRs or for digital DX nothing less then 20mm. Here´s [...]
Posted in Wide-angle lens | 19 Comments »
LightSource Podcast Interview with Nathanael Bennett
Posted on May 24, 2007
You may have noticed that back on the Scott Hargis tutorial on how to light a room in the comments Geoff Wilson recommended the LightSource Podcast (E041) that features an interview with Interior and Architectural Photographer Nathanael Bennett. I listened to the Podcast and also recommend it. The interview features:
Getting started in architectural photography
[...]
Posted in Photo Technique | 3 Comments »
An Elegant Image by M. James Northen
Posted on March 26, 2007
I was recently looking through the images on M. James Northen’s web site after he’s made a comment on photographing upper-end properties. M. James works out of Vero Beach, Florida an shoots for premiere real estate companies, multi-million dollar builders, custom cabinet and kitchen designers and interior decorators in the southeast Florida area.
I chose this [...]
Posted in Photo Technique, ReaderProfile | 8 Comments »
Stunning Interior Image By Thomas Bliss
Posted on November 26, 2006
Thomas Bliss is an Architectural Photographer that works out of studios in Gig harbor, WA and Tucson, AZ. I’ve had a link to his site in the list of interior photographers along the right hand side of the blog. Thomas asked me to update the link I have to his site so I was looking [...]
Posted in ReaderProfile, Real Estate Photo of the Week | Leave a Comment »
Photographing Architecture And Interiors by Julius Shulman
Posted on September 28, 2006
Today while going through some of my old books I ran across one of my favorites: Photographing Architecture And Interiors by Julius Shulman. Shulman, who is now in his 90’s, has photographed for many of the great American architects of the last 70 years. In particular Shulman’s clients were architects like Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano and Frank Lloyd [...]
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Using Wide Angle Lenses Effectively
Posted on June 7, 2006
Today I ran across two articles on wide angle lenses. Wide angle lenses are essential equipment for real estate photographers and it’s important to understand all the strange behaviors of wide angle lenses. These articles go into some depth on some of these strange behaviors that you’ll need to control when using a wide angle [...]
Posted in Wide-angle lens | 2 Comments »
Render that which is vertical vertical
Posted on April 16, 2006
Recently I was having a discussion about verticals with a reader that illustrated to me that on the previous posts about perspective correction and verticals I’ve not made the point explicitly or strong enough about the importance of always making sure verticals are rendered vertical in architectural and interior photographs. I’ll go so far as [...]
Posted in Photo Editing | 2 Comments »
In-camera panorama stitching
Posted on April 15, 2006
Today a reader posed an interesting question. “…isn’t a panorama a replacement for a wide-angle lens without the problem of perspective exaggeration you get with ultra-wide angle lenses?”
I’ve never thought of it in those terms but yes it is. A couple of fames stitched together will in fact increase your horizontal field of view (HFOV). [...]
Posted in Panoramas, Photo Equipment | 1 Comment »
Perspective Correction Lenses
Posted on April 4, 2006
As interior photographers you should know there is more to the subject of perspective correction than the image editing I’ve been talking about. Many professional photographers would shudder at our previous discussions about fixing perspective problems in photo editors. There are lenses designed for shooting interiors and architecture. They are called tilt and shift or [...]
Posted in Photo Equipment | 1 Comment »
Image Composition
Posted on March 22, 2006
What’s wrong with this image? This is an image I shot this last week in a small living room with my wide-angle zoom cranked all the way out to 16mm.
While shooting, I completely missed the distracting angles that the lines in the ceiling make. This is a perfect example of how you have to be [...]
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What is a Wide-angle Lens?
Posted on March 15, 2006
What is a wide-angle lens? This is a concept that is critical for real estate photographers to understand. The angle of view or how wide an angle a camera can “see” is related to the focal length of the lens. That’s the number that you always see quoted in millimeters (mm). The angle of view [...]
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