Photographer with only a years experience, any tips or instructions on house to do real estate photography?
Going to take pictures at sunrise of the front, and sunset of the back for better lighting. But is there anything g else I should do? Wide angle for inside to make rooms look bigger?
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>>2849988
>Wide angle for inside to make rooms look bigger?
Ultra wide angle yes, but not to make it look bigger.
Just to show the whole layout.
Keep the camera perfectly level to avoid making the room look bigger.
>>2849988
if the OP is one you took, my advice won't get you very far. that's a great shot, glad you're not in my market haha
>>2849988
Go to fstoppers.com and look around.
They have paid tutorials that will be exactly what you want, but you should be able to glean some basics from free articles.
>>2849988
Sunrise sunset etc depends on house orientation.
21mm or 24mm lens.
Tripod, lowest ISO you can manage, decently high aperture (find one which will make entire room in focus, foreground and background). You want to maximize sharpness so don't just jump to f/22 because of diffraction. Long exposures for low noise.
lolpro here
Disregard all posts but this one.
Get an ultra wide and shoot wide, unlike the morons in here telling you to shoot at 24mm for REAL ESTATE (completely fucking diffetent to architecture) shoot wide, this does NOT mean you always need to shoot at your widest focal length and in fact you still may shoot at 24mm depending on the room but in general for real estate and selling propertiea the agent will want to make the space look large.
Learn lighting, the image you posted is either a mike kelley shot or someone utilizing the same lighting method (>inb4 hurrdurr its the mike kelley technique, its not he was just the one to shill it the best through fstoppers)
I know there are people on who saying they do it with HDR, this is by far the easiest way of weeding out amateurs and professionals, they think if they bracket and can get a decent exposure through HDR then they are doing the space justice >protip: they arent and its fucking amateur shooting HDR
THAT SAID most will start this type of photography utilizing the HDR technique until they figure out lighting.
If it is for real estate then you most probably will not have the luxury to spend all day at the property, this game is about getting what you need to show the space in the best possible way as EFFICIENTLY as possible and then getting the fuck out.
Again, real estate is different to an architecture shoot when you could take a whole day in some cases.
The only useful tip someone else has already said is keep your camera level, you want your verticals to be vertical, this is crucial for both real estate and architecture photography.
Get a good stable tripod.
>>2852921
>lol pro
>no website
OK moopco
>Bumping for more tips
Not OP but I'm also interested in real estate photography. Pic related = today at Disney Fort Wilderness
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>>2853029
you have a good eye, I got the lens used off ebay
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this is my main source of income. but i also work contract for like 2-3 companies.
most of time i just send my photos over to their editors and they end up bleaching the photos.
in my experience the realtors just want their photos ASAP. quality be damned. (but if you're good then usually your photo won't be online for more than a couple of weeks anyways)
you're trying to make their house sell, bottom line. so if you try to get too artsy in your editing, youre doing a disservice to those online searching for properties with intent to buy. clear, sharp photos.
anyways i went into some shit hole place that was super sketchy with the door broken open..one of the few times i wished i had a gun ...so be careful about that too.
oh and jut a tip, make sure the toilet seats are down. realtors hate that shit
pic related. sketchy ass house i was talking about.
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>>2853033
It's crazy how big of a gap there is in the quality of photos when it comes to real estate.
Recently I was looking at high dollar condos in Chicago for the hell of it and you could find two multi million dollar condos being sold where one would have good composition and lighting and the other one would just be sloppy phone pics where the flash is on in every photo; even though they're from the same brokerage firm.
I guess it also depends on if they hired a photographer or not.
>>2853045
Here's a actually a good example from that same exact listing.
>>2853047
"We'll do it live, fuck it"
