Great video. Shows that there are diminishing returns from using multiple strobes or other additional lighting. I'm not only a real estate photographer, but I'm an agent. I shoot all my own properties. I can tell you for a fact that an agent has 10-15 seconds to grab a prospective buyer's attention online when that buyer is looking for a home. The front exterior is vitally important. I always shoot the front and rear exterior with a drone. EVEN if I'm not shooting a complete video for the home. The extra height from the drone (10-25 ft) give a great look to the exterior with no perspective issues to fix in post. I appreciate your content
I have a question about your path you have chosen . I am trying to break into the real estate business and I am more motivated to shoot my own work. 1st is the market a factor when deciding to be a realtor? how long does it take and did you go to a real estate school or do the internship and work your way up? would it be faster to pay for a school?
@@JenniferCapwell-xm1ei Hi Jennifer! You ask some great, and important, questions. I am now 70 years old and real estate was a second career for me that I began after leaving the corporate world 20 years ago. I went from being a broker sitting in a cubicle at a franchise brokerage to owning my own company with 20 agents. Forget what the market is like. I opened my business at the beginning of the terrible recession and, during those years, never had a gross commission income under $175K. In 2023 I made $345K. In a small ski town of 100K people in Central Oregon. I still sell ranches and farms as I begin my road to retirement. My advice: 1. Become a buyer’s agent for a well-established agent. They will take 50% of your income so ONLY do this long enough to learn the rules, paperwork, etc. 2. Then, find a brokerage that lets you keep the majority of your earned income. The name of that brokerage is meaningless. My company name is Alleda Real Estate. Name means nothing. 3. Work real estate like any other job. Many agents love the “freedom” of working for themselves and they dink around and only work 3-4 days a week and then wonder why they only made $30K in a year. No surprise. Buy Gary Kelley’s book, Millionaire Real Estate Agent. Forget about making a million bucks and read it for the info about how many times you need to “touch” someone to be #1 or #2 in their minds when it comes time to buy or sell a home. 4. Write a blog. Your job is to collect email addresses of people to send the blog to. It’s free and you can “touch” people 12 times a year if you only write once a month. Last - keep asking successful agents what they do. Most will share. Forget the ones who won’t. Even during a recession or down market homes are bought and sold. You only need to sell 1 home per month to make a great living. You can find my contact info through my company website should you choose to keep in touch. I’m always happy to help if I can. Best of luck!! Jim
YES!!!!!! I was hoping you would do a video like this for some time! You're videos are so helpful but I always wondered how you worked during the shoot itself. This is awesome! Thank you!
Thank you Eli for sharing all this, very valuable info! BTW, I see you bracket the sunny exterior pics, rarely those need HDR, a single well exposed take makes it.
New sub. Just arrived during my search for tips as I begin my journey. This one video covered the familiar issues and scenarios. Now I know better so can provide better service. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and talent!!! I’m currently getting ready to build a portfolio and get started with real estate photography, and you and your content are so inspiring to me ❤
Eli and his crew have answered all of my questions when I joined the program. I wasted so much time and money trying to set my business up myself...especially trying to figure out gear and settings. The program also covered the business of real estate photography. Even though I haven't completed to the end of the program, I'm up and shooting.
This was great, im looking at the Nikon 16-35 f/4 to shoot real estate. I originally was looking at the 14-24 2.8 thinking i needed to be that wide, especially for the bathrooms. Ill be saving $200 going with the 16-35 f/4.
At 10:32 would it be acceptable to shoot vertical since you’re shooting through a narrow doorway or is it preferable to keep everything in landscape so it all ties together better?
Oh wow. We are always shooting on 12mm or 14mm. 16mm was just not wide enough and people complained. 12-24mm is what our team uses Great video! Ive put all this into play and killing it! It works guys!
Editor recovers them from the low-exposed RAW shot. Highlights look blown-out because the showned bracketed series hasn't been processed. That's why is important to get a cam with a good dynamical range, which happens mostly on full frame ones.
How are you getting the clear window views. None of the three exposures have images close to the final results. Are you doing separate window pulls? Thanks
Basically if you want to work fast like that you need a huge team of editors in india/vietnam spending hours collectively on these photos to make them look acceptable.
This was the video we needed! Why do you not shoot with aperture priority mode since it doesn’t require to always change the shutter speed when moving from one place to another?
@@danielolaniyi9887 Aperture priority is a shooting mode available on most mirrorless cameras that allows the user to set the desired aperture value while the camera automatically adjusts the necessary shutter speed to achieve a correct exposure. When shooting in aperture priority mode, the camera will prioritize maintaining the set aperture value, and will adjust the shutter speed accordingly in order to compensate for any changes in lighting conditions. Essentially, by fixing the aperture and letting the camera adjust the shutter speed, the photographer can exercise greater control over the depth of field in their images.
Eli, on your bracketed exposures, it looks like even your dark exposure, the outside is still blown out. How did you retain the detail in post of blown out exposures.
This is the problem with this video. I'm sure he's doing a window pull shot that he is not showing. I was wondering the same thing. There's a lot more to it than what he is showing and telling in this video.
Thanks for listening. Here are a few valuable resources you may find helpful! Real Estate Photo Workshop: repplaunch.com/workshopsignup?el=youtubect My Gear Kit: kit.co/itselijones The Platform we use for Editors: pixlmob.com/repp?el=youtubect Real Estate Photo Cheat Sheets repplaunch.com/cheatsheets?el=youtubect Here’s my real estate photography scaling roadmap: repplaunch.com/advancedtrainingsignup?el=ytdes
This is a very helpful video! Did you visit this property prior to shooting? It seems like you know the space layout really well. I wonder if it is bec you have visited it prior or, it's because you have done this so many times.
How are you getting those window views? I find that i have to take a separate photo with super low shutter speed and mask it in photoshop to get views that clear
try to use low iso.. and of course shoot raw ..i'm editing real estate photos about 4 years.. i made video about how to edit them you can check that in my channel ..
tbh, the window pulls look a bit overly enhanced... I think the point you're making is that HIS low exposure shot doesn't reflect how green those trees are--sky too but he's used a sky replacement. I also take a shot just for the outside exposure.
I, 4 minutes in, everything you are talking about is exactly why my business has become so successful!!! I am makin 15-20k per month and i started a year ago.... I take the time to do all the things you are saying, and agents are amazed that I do it.... ( I shoot all lights off though) I hate the color cast from the lights, I love the more natural look of lights off!!! Great video so far ...AS ALWAYS!!!
What is the editing company? They do a great job. I do think that flambiant method provides more accurate colors but have the clients ever insisted on using flash in your work?
@@continentmediaLLC His editors seem to be his secret weapon since there is no mention anywhere or does not answer that all-too important question. I hope he does or someone else does for the sake of the beginners.
Did you ever get a reply on the editor question? That is key to excellent photos. Please let me know if you found out, it would be greatly appreciated.
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I love it but a single added flash exposure for the lights and windows reuduces so much haze and makes images sharper Adds some time and harder to train but makes such a difference in my opionion with the photos
@@BuddyQuaid Could you please refer who does your editing? This is such an important component in the workflow that was not mentioned. Any help is greatly appreciated.
@itselijones No problem. I only purchase from BH Photo Video, but you took the time to put this whole kit together, and then share it, it was a no brainer. Thanks again.
Excellent video. You covered it all! Do you use artificial light like lightboxes, etc. I know you don't like flash. I didn't see you use anything but room lights and natural window light.
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As a building critic sharing my thoughts, im doing RE foto+video here in Austria, Burgenland - Vienna region, and all of the final images are simply unreal to me, and clients are not stupid (most of them), from the images i can tell, as a potentian buyer, that the reality will be far from what we saw. Whats the point of starting with a dissapointment, as a real estate agent - who you working for, instead presenting reality best way you can, than expectations are overdeliverd, and more buying offer results higher price for the house, than the agent will call you next time, or he/she trying that you work only for them, with a 5x higher rate/project. sorry for my english
Only 30 minutes for a 4000 sq ft house? I must be doing something wrong. Usually takes me an hour to do a 2000ish sq ft house (inside and outside). Also not sure how those windows are getting that since even the under exposed picture had blown out windows. Can you make a video on that?
Just an observation: There are sneakers on the kitchen floor and a dog/cat bowl to the left of the fireplace. I have lost sales because a buyer says "I'm allergic to dog/cat" and because they see a pet bowl they won't view the home
@Eli Jones okay gotcha. I figure that was the standard since it would be kind of dishonest to try to isolate the house you're taking pictures of without showing at least the houses on either side.
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@@itselijones Thank you very much Eli, I really appreciate your channel. You can count on me being an avid consumer of your content, thanks for the links.
Im new to photography but I feel like you took alot of photos of the same area from different angles. Don't you think the only reason we would take all those photos of the same area is if the realtor paid for a bigger package of photos and we need to add enough photos to deliver? Other than that I dont see why you would need so many photos of the same area from different angles
So I do window pulls and my editor asks me to do so. He’s a terrific editor and my images are awesome. But I’d love to speed up my process even more so how can I tell him that it’s not necessary?
Interesting video. Appreciate it. Just as a warning: Not everyone can run around houses like this. You will be totally wiped out if you shoot the entire 4000 square feet and yard. Especially if it is hot outside.
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You should be careful with this wide angle, otherwise the corners will appear very distorted. Some customers could get into problems themselves if they show photos that show a very large room, but in reality it isn't!!! For example, I would use 24mm on a full-length camera (16mm on a crop factor camera). An be careful with mirrors so that no one can see you in it;-)
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The difference between what's your 3 exposures are and the final product is unreal. There is no way you can pull that outside from the bracketing you are showing in the video with your 3 bracketing shots. Cheers
@@Mr0erick0 half of his under exposed shot's windows are blown out, yet in the final product they were not. You can't do that with editing only this three photos.
I use 3 bracketed shots and of course that one can get a decent looking pictures with the right postprocessing (what I do myself). Raw add-on helps a lot. The trouble is a photographer’s own interpretation of how the final shot should look like. Some add too much colours. I strive for example for natural looking photos but the true is that most clients want bright and vivid colours.
Only 3 brackets, no flash and you get result like this? Really? How do you avoid color cast and white balance issues. All your photo looks color accurate. How is this possible?
Do your setting stay the same for every room. I have a hard time with that and seem to change settings with every room if too bright from the sun. Holy Moly your home is beautiful thank you for sharing. I am still learning. Photo_graphyrealestate
the only setting you have to change is the shutter speed .. so all other setting will stay same.. i'm editing real estate photos about 4 years.. i made video about how to edit them you can check that in my channel . i also do offer editing service ...
Don't be fooled by this. You can not be long term successful doing low, quick, quality like this. Somebody who does more advanced shoots/pro quality will steal all your business. This guy is trying to sell you something by making this seem easy.
If you give the expectation you will clean you will never make it and will be completely exploited by agents. Continuously. Do a little decluttering. Very little. If you want to be making less than minimum wage set the expectation you will clean.
AND you're rocking an Aquanaut??? From real estate photography?? God damn bro, I am an agent and take listing pics for my team. I've gotten a lot of experience this year and have taken pics of rental units all the way up to multi-million dollar properties here in LA. I am pursuing success as an agent first and foremost, but damn... Maybe photography can be a lucrative income source as I grow.
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