Considering moving to RE Photography but not sure what are actual earnings that can be achieved.
Assuming a single photographer in a large city after growing their business in a large metropolitan area. How much I could possibly make ?
I've been spending a LOT of hours over the past month watching YouTube videos and reading up on Real Estate photography techniques. I really wanted to get the flambient technique down but it's not been easy so I decided to just give HDR a go and edit out the color casting (painful) that comes from HDR. I did, however, flash the windows for the window pull but the rest of the lighting comes from 3 bracket shots 2-stops apart.
Please critique this photo and the edits -- and be as harsh as you need to be as I do want to succeed as a real estate photographer.
Second image was taken from my iphone as a reference so you can see what the actual lighting looks like.
NB: Sorry for the mess, I didn't bother cleaning up before taking this test photo.
I'm using Stripe for one specific reason...I can split payments.
I gave it simple prompts in the beginning. First prompt was to correct the white balance and edit the picture that is popular in my area. After I asked it to edit it give it more warmer tone and a curve contrast. I also asked it to do sky replacement and fix verticals, but it was a bit hesitant with doing that with the reasoning that it would not yield good results. It adviced me to do those tings manually in photoshop. I will give some example pictures. The results not crazy, but I like the slight edit. Lighting was pretty good during the shoot so the pictures wouldn't need a lot of editing for the style that is popular in my area.
I want to make a grand slam offer for my business like what Alex Hormozi talks about. What are some good ideas for this?
I shoot real estate, usually 5 brackets at 1 stop apart, natural light.
Full 20 image shoot takes me the whole day not joking. Worst ones are houses with blinds cause I gotta mask every single little rectangle on every window. Cluttered rooms are bad too but blinds are on another level.
Been using Lightroom for merging but idk if theres something better out there. Looking for anything that handles window masking and bracket merging faster.
Anyone tried any AI tools for this? Not tryna replace my whole workflow just wanna speed it up.
Hi everyone’s just curious what everyone does for their window pull shots. I’m still fairly new to RE and had a client suggest that I do window pulls for shots that have windows in them. Till today I’ve been shooting window shots with HDR only. Rest of my interiors are a mix of HDR or flambient depending on the room.
From my understanding there are two main ways. The first is doing a dedicated window pull, high expo shot + low expo shot and blend. Then second is doing an HDR shot and then a low expo window pull and then mask/blend onto the HDR shot.
Are these what y’all do or does anyone have a better technique suggestion. I currently do all my own editing but do have a guy or two lined up to do my edits.
Any insights are appreciated!
Equipment: Canon EOS Rebel T7 (plan to upgrade in a few months). Tripod, Godox TT685II.
I often do not shoot homes in the order that I would like the photos to be when sending to the agent and would rather not have to rename all of my files manually
I am looking for a website or app that works like AutoHDR where you can easily organize the photos and then batch rename and download the files. I edit my own stuff usually and rarely use AutoHDR, but when I do, I have found that feature really useful
Anyone have any suggestions?
*Edit - Did not know what Adobe Bridge was for until now 😅
These are all from a recent shoot I did for one of my high end clients. All of the interiors, except the first photo, were shot with a 35mm tilt shift. All of the tilt shift photos are made up of two photos. One shifted down and one shifted up to get everything in frame. Some I used my own lighting and a couple are all natural light.
With the advent of tools like fotello it’s allowed me to offer some “high end” packages. I basically do “listing” photos, which are the wide angle typical photos we’re used to that show the space. In addition I do a handful of “architectural” photos. Tighter compositions and I try to light them artistically depending on the light.
I let fotello edit the listing photos and I do my own editing on the architectural photos. I’m also hopefully going to be licensing a few of these with the architecture firm that designed and restored these. I’ve had some success with this type of package. Anyone doing anything similar?
So far mine is 6
Is there any good AI real estate editing softwares? Please let me know. I am looking for fair pricing and good customer support
I was shooting a house for a portfolio and the house is small from the front not much dimension and the space between it and the two houses next to it are pretty tight. How would you shoot it?
Can I vent? I'm going to vent.
Shot a listing today for an agent who's dropped the price three times and can't figure out why it won't move.
In the same breath she told me:
- lighting doesn't matter
- straight lines don't matter
- bracketing is unnecessary
- her 10MP camera from 2005 is "still great"
- she's been doing this 20 years
Cool. And the listing is sitting.
Buyers are scrolling Zillow on a phone in bed at 11pm. The first three photos decide whether they tap or keep scrolling. That's the whole game now. You can have 20 years of experience and still be playing by 2008 rules while the buyer pool has completely moved on.
Some houses sell on cell phone pics. Most don't. The price drops aren't the problem — buyers never got far enough to care about the price.
Venting done.
I do about 20-30 transactions a year, mix of occupied and vacant listings. Vacant ones were killing my photo budget, so I spent most of this year actually running four tools through real listings rather than just signing up for a trial and calling it done. Here's what I found.
BoxBrownie is the one I started with because a lot of agents in my office use it. The output quality is genuinely the best. The problem is $30/photo and 24-48 hours turnaround. On a 12-photo vacant listing that's $360 and I might not get photos back before a showing request comes in. For special cases it's worth it. As a default workflow, it's not.
Virtual Staging AI is cheap and I understand why people use it to test the category. The quality showed that. Furniture looked pasted, the lighting rarely matched the room, and I had one listing where the living room looked fine but the dining room render was obviously a different tool run. Not usable for anything I'd put my name on.
GPT image 2 is great for aesthetics, but accurately describe what i want in prompt makes the process harder. No batch processing is another friction.
Edensign is what I ended up defaulting to for vacant listings. Batch processing works great, and the thing that actually mattered to me was multi-view consistency.
Curious whether anyone's found a tool that handles both style flexibility and multi-view consistency well, because right now I'm splitting between two to get both.
Surely there is a better way right? Im finally getting orders for 360 so ive only done a couple. Any tips appreciated
Both lens maximum shift, no vignette correction, aperture value shown with the Canon 17mm TS
Image 1 : Laowa 17mm shift lens with the default lens hood
Image 2 : Tried the Polarpro Magnetic CP filter on the Laowa 17mm shift lens
Image 3 : Laowa 17mm shift lens with the filter setup in image 2
Image 4 : Canon 17mm Tilt Shift Lens
Image 5 : Laowa 17mm shift lens (no default lens hood)
Image 5 : Laowa 17mm shift lens (no default lens hood)
Image 6 : Laowa 17mm shift lens (no default lens hood)
Image 7 : Laowa 17mm shift lens (no default lens hood)
I want to offer both vertical/reels and horizontal videos but do not want to have to do it twice.
I'd like to dabble in real estate photography as a side hustle, but I don't have a wide angle lens. (for that matter, I also have no idea how to get practice shots at it or how to break into it).
I'm tempted to get a wide angle lens to try and get started, but I'm also afraid it might go to waste if I can't break into the field somehow. So IDK how much money I should spend.
Anyhoo, these all looked like good choices to me, but I didn't know if there were adequate less expensive options or if one seems better than another. The Sigma 14-24 Art Lens seems most useful, but is also the most expensive.
Sony 16-25 f/2.8 G Lens ($1298)
Sigma 14-24 f/2.8 DG DN Art Lens ($1539)
Sigma 16-28 f/2.8 DG DN Contemporary Lens ($939)
Tamron 16-30 f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 Lens ($929)
Thoughts or suggestions for getting started?
Hey REP friends! Out of curiosity - how would you feel if a realtor put your photos through an AI editor to alter your finished photos? No contract stating it can’t be done, but it’s someone you’ve worked with for a long time, and you didn’t know until you saw the listing. It has recently happened to me twice, both galleries I was quite happy with. They are now whitewashed, blurry, and distorted on floors, ceilings and some furniture. It’s not disclosed in the listing that photos have been altered with AI. Thanks in advance!
