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Tilt Shift Lens: Avoiding Perspective Distortion

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Minimize architectural perspective distortion with a Tilt+Shift lens. Watch the video and see examples, diagrams and images to help you improve your real estate photography.

Real Estate Photography Tips: Equipment for Shooting the Town – Part 1

Comparison of 20mm Sigma lens on Canon 5D Mark II and Canon Rebel T2i

Real Estate Photography is easy peasy point-n-shoot, right? We get that question a LOT. Probably because we spend so much time taking and processing house photographs for our lines of business. Cameras and Equipment for Real Estate Photography The most basic categories of real estate photography are these: 1. Photographs for Real Estate Appraisals (interior [...]

Become a Better Photographer: The Tale of a Realtor – Part 1

The Turning Point: The Need to Become a Better Photographer A while ago, I had an epiphany. Well, more like a fit. A big one. We dragged our kids out for an entire afternoon to photograph a subdivision in Round Rock, Texas. We were in and out of the car, stopped for lunch, stopped for [...]

Your Home as Art: Good Idea or Not?

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Your Home is your Castle, Should it also be Your Art? We all love our home, some of us so much we want to turn them into our own canvas for artistic expression. Is that a good idea? I’ve been getting a wee bit tired of taking photos of subdivisions lately, even though we see [...]