My First Real Estate Photography Shoot | What I Learned 

That FPV shot was SICK. I feel like that's all you need 🤣

I have waited for your video for centuries 😭😭😭 these are tears of joy

Great walkthrough on real estate photography. Free Master class. Pinterest would have been a great reference point for you. Amazing interior photos on that site.

Those photos look coooollll!

also maybe for drone shots shoot during mid day when the sun is highest so it gets rid of shadows

Hey, I just saw your footprints on the floor@7:15 min.; Have you seen them? But I appreciate the FPV shot. Did you use the same Mavic 2 pro drone to shoot the FPV shot?

The FPV drone footage is pretty nice.

Why this isn’t on the vlog channel? O_O

Okay that FPV montage was SICK. Thats really all that needed to be done, IMO. damn!

Gene: I’m a professional! Also Gene: Oh THAT’S what vertical means...

Don't think I'm ever gonna shoot real estate but this was still thoroughly entertaining

Vertical verticals baby 😅 nice job Gene. - Dang that GO 2 FPV shot looked great quality! An elevated front (drone or pole) cover shot always helps too. Makes home look bigger, roof lines more visible, etc.

Gene said "I think the twilight's gonna be our key shots right there" but then he shoots FPV and the house is sold. 🤌

learned so much from this channel

Had my two young lady assistants from my office come with me to shoot a house a few years back and suffered one of those "other items" moments. The 26 year old owner just inherited the home from his Uncle who passed away and set himself up in the basement. While I was shooting the upper level my assistants went down to the lower level to neaten things up and turn on the lights. When I went down stairs they had these funny looks on their faces and one kept looking away and biting her lip. I went through the rooms shooting everything and then into the bedroom.... The lighting wasn't great and I don't wear glasses when shooting as I see fine close up and use the flippy screen pulling focus and then zoom in after the 1st picture to check focus. So I shoot across the room toward the bed and night stand and when I reviewed the photo and zoomed way in, there in all their glory were several Obelisk-like objects, leather objects and things I wish I could have "unseen"! I went back out looked at the girls who were laughing their heads off when they saw my face...

That last KGB warning to subscribe was shivering. I clicked subscribe right away and hid under the bed.

*Payment denied* Goes in the house, steals furniture😂

Real Estate is my main source of income nowadays! Very chill enviornment and you can work slowly and be a perfectionist! Love it!

The FPV shot through the house would be very appealing while browsing through houses online.

So you probably dont know this since youre a video guy, but lenses have sharpness sweetspots. It varies from lens to lens but most of the times the sweetspot is at f/8, look your lens up at DxOmark to get the best out of it. Aprtures of f/22 are considered a sin in the pgotography world.

@Potato Jet - the links in your description are not working - was going to buy something through your affiliate links - 'cause I love you so much - but I will wait till Sam fixes.

I should be doing my homework right now, but I clicked so fast I ended up being first on Gene's video.

Alright Gene - you now have introduced FPV into Real Estate. Can't wait for all the newcomers to wreck the houses and furniture with the Props from the FPV. Cool shoot - I like it.

I love Gene’s genuine curiosity about everything creative. He’s also gotten great at FPV fast.

"Vertical Verticals" - Gene proceeds to immediately f*ck his keystoning.

I don’t even bracket anymore. With an AD300 Pro and a sensor with 15 stops of dynamic range, it’s not really necessary anymore in 99% of circumstances. Also, f/22 is more stopped down than necessary. F/9 to f/11 is usually more than enough, and retains more sharpness.

The FPV drone shots had my jaw hit the floor. Epic shots mate.

The FPV shot was wonderful. Also, a lesson learned: let the house talk to the buyer and don't get in its way. Nothing too odd, just shoot with discipline (verticals and camera height). And, wow, the Aperture lights - brilliant. Very helpful for an apartment shoot that I'll do today or tomorrow.

The outside is not very nice looking, partly because it's not finished, and it'll look better when it's done. Having the shot in the dark with lights on covered a lot of sins there. The FPV.... OMG!!!

That FPV shot was the best thing I have ever seen WOW!!!!!!!!!!

Also, because you may have to adjust verticals in post, shoot a little wider so the adjustments don’t crop in too far

Do you know what I learned on my first real estate shoot? That my lens was broken and I had to go back and do it again

As someone who's been creating a lot of real estate videos, I think you're about to make A LOT on fpv inside the houses hahaha

If I had the money and I was looking to purchase this house, I would solely buy on the sweet FPV footage. No questions asked.

Potato these photos were pretty rough! I was told you can't lie to someone you love. Anyway, considering its a first attempt its not the worst I've seen. HDR Is just so unflattering for real estate.

I learned a lot from this dude. And I have nothing to do with real estate photography. Thanks for walking us through it!

To keep the lines STRAIGHT You have to use TILT-SHIFT Lenses, maybe a bit too late now?

Please don’t wreck my field of work with hundreds of thousands of followers.... ughhhhh

Check out the Inside Real Estate Photography channel, this guy is loaded with awesome tips.

Waooooo, such a wonderful video. Am so happy I met your channel since years ago. I have been enjoying it so well your videos. You also inspired me start a channel and it’s growing very well. Thanks 🙏 a lot brother be blessed always, I also hope your fans can give me a hand of little support one day too. 🤗

Wowwwww.. That house 🏡 though 😍

Architect here. I document my own projects and also work with a bunch of photographers. I shoot with a D800e and a 14-24 Here are some tips that might help you out. Cardinal rule - All verticals must be 90 degrees to the horizon. Unless it's a deliberate artistic choice, and usually a tilted image doesn't hold up visually. White balance is key. Whether in camera or in post. Shoot past golden hour (inky blue sky) and turn on the lights, unless the lights are low quality LED lights with a CRI less than 90 (it throws up a greenish cast which is difficult to correct in post). Watch the edge of your frame. Try and not chop off furniture and architectural details. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but it should be top of mind when/if you do. Carry a steam iron as part of your gear. Bed linen and curtains should be wrinkle free and are a headache to correct in post. Learn the "adaptive wide angle" tool on Photoshop, and you won't need a PC-E lens. I've never felt the need to use one, and the pro photographers I work with have pretty much stopped using them as well. Probably because it slows them down, especially if you're fighting failing light. Just make sure you leave enough breathing room around the subject, because you'll lose some data while correcting the image. I also use a Manfroto 410 junior gear head, which helps a lot in making sure I'm shooting level. Shoot interior images from a height of 5 feet or lower. Movie cameras are usually placed even lower, so we are used to seeing in that perspective. Don't just shoot overall 'documentation' shots. Pick out a few details/features/objects. It breaks the monotony of the final album. When shooting exterior views, try a few with a longer lens and compress the facade. I never use HDR, the D800 has such a huge dynamic range that I just feel don't need to. And getting HDR images to look natural is a skill and takes work. This image (i.imgur.com/xH90KQZ.jpg) for example, shows how much data one can recover from the shadows from the D800's sensor.

Searching for a photographer aaaaand... hmmm “Potato Jet.” Sounds legit. Write this guy a check and let him into the house. Oh, and make sure he flies an unmanned aircraft in the house too. 😊👍 Great content Mr. Jet. Keep up the good work.

if you need advice for car video let me know ))

Fascinating thanks for creating team potato

Another thing...you might want to make sure you check with the agent or potentially the homeowner before filming videos in the house, because that could definitely affect the marketing and cause potential privacy concerns. Be careful with this!

OMG! That FPV shot was MONEY!!!

I edit/correct photos for Real Estate agents and I'm cringing at some of the shots. They are very meticulous when it comes to the little things especially for a house as big as this. I know the house is under construction but there's way too much clutter everywhere. You would not believe how many hours I've spent removing clutter and "adding" grass into those barren yards.

But where's the FX3 review? 😬

Sitting height, broom, dust rag, extra hands, these are the not-so-sexy tips we need

Wrong, pro spends even more time lol

that FPV drone shots!! great pilot!! and actually, soon ill have some Real Estate Photography Shoots too, so this video came in the perfect moment for me! and they will be proud for hiring my, cause i´m a real pro, like your client did, hahahahahhaha

I've never done real estate but resort pics (and interiors for Crate & Barrel and CB2.) For location I always bring small portable battery powered strobes and a few c-stands and a few rolls of diffusion...the Profoto B10+ with a Photek Softlighter umbrella...to fill in hallways or rooms that look dark, especially if they are rooms off to the side or in the background. And some warming / cooling gels too. I know. Old school but saves in post. A roll of diffusion hung before a door frame and light with a strobe/umbrella creates a very soft and believable light. And personally, I'd never shoot from a sitting height. Basically for me the best is to calculate the height of the ceiling and then try to place the lens as close to the middle of the height as possible (I use a Canon 24mm tilt/shift too to help). 12' ceiling / camera at 6'. This gives you the easiest way to make sure all the angles are plum. Also, I always shoot tethered and then blow up the image on the screen to look for things I don't at first see. Cords/dirt/open drawers... And now I also try to bring along a Litemat LED panel and an LED tube for hard to light places like showers and bathrooms...Your pics looked great so you might get more work in shooting homes.

yeah...stick to whatever you've been doing...RE isn't really your thing

Circular polarizer filter is needed to remove the reflection from glass showers, windows and maybe fridge(s).

Real talk though, this house is hideous 😂

Although I've walked into properties with mirrors on the bedroom ceiling and toys (ahem), the worst is when there's a single bottle of lotion on a bachelor's nightstand. 🙅 I hate moving it myself, but it's better than having to ask the owner to move it. 😆 Y'all! Hide the lotion, please!

Mr. Potato Jet...Potato Jet...PJ... Take it from someone who shoots about 1k properties per year - Watch your third walls. There are a few images that show furniture along a wall (third wall effect). While you are trying to show a living space, you are not trying to show everything in that space, which makes the third wall very distracting. Best to always shoot into a corner, than go to that corner and shoot back the other way if you want to show the whole space. This is the most common mistake that ALL non full time real estate photogs make.

This is helpful I’m an insurance broker and I am starting to do this just to get extra money in extra clients and make an extra bit of money but thank you for the help because I’ve been taking pictures for nine years and inspection pictures are totally different than real estate pictures

I use a rectilinear 15mm irix lens on a metabones adaptor with my a7rii. I always make sure my camera is leveled using the in body level. I’ll shout 3 stop hdr photos, then I do flash shots bouncing off the ceiling or a wall that’s out of frame. Sometimes multiple flash pops then I paint the flash exposure selectively into a composite with the hdr shot. You can also do luminosity masking to get super controlled with your bracketed shots and flash exposures. To put the icing on the cake I’ll expose for our the windows and shoot a shot with my flash on high power and aimed at the windows so I can do a window pull on my top layer.

I Never thought about the twilight shot! Thanks for the tip! btw, Your bitly links aren't working at all... is it just me?? I was trying to find out that side handle you talked about in one of your videos that you can easily switch the angles with a button.

That canon lens didn't really had vertical lines though, but could be fixed with Lightroom. I guess true real estate lenses would be the Laowa Zero D lenses.

the most important tip that only one person mentioned and he barely followed is: keep straight lines straight (vertical) and a tip that no one mentioned is: don't shoot too wide... you want to sell the felling of being in the space, not the actual space. (look up Mike Kelly he is a true professional architectural photographer)

I've heard tilt-shift lenses help you get those lines straight. Never used one p.s On 6:00 there is some kind of a glitch. I saw it on another video, is this a youtube video processing bug?

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO! I have to do some real estate photography this weekend and I don’t know anything 🤣

The tips people left are good. My company I work for does Matterport 3D Scanning of interiors of the home. It mostly so the Matterport camera can get as much data as possible, but we keep the camera about Stomach High. I'm 6'7" so more like sternum for most. It's a more pleasing perspective. Low enough to make the rooms look bigger, but high enough to still see over top of counters and furniture.

Great job! I loved that you got advice from so many people, then showed us how that worked for you. The twilight, the vertical lines -- those are things I never would have thought of. And I loved, loved, loved the FPV shots. Again, great job!

it still bothers me that gene calls the BIDET, BUDEY.

I do Real Estate photography and all I can think of here is: they’re spending so much time here, their hourly rate is probably down to a buck an hour 🤣

Papita aeroplano, when will you let us know who 3 won the Insta360 Go 2, from the giveaway? 😃

@Nathan Cool on RU-vid is your Real State Photography Guru you should check it out.

Omg I also did my first real estate photography last week! I even shot a video of it too! lol I never edit my videos though, someone please give me motivation 😭

Wow. That fpv footage may become the new trend. It's so unique for real estate. I almost wanted to buy the house!

informative and entertaining as awlays man! thank you! For the FPV shots, are you able to set points in which you want to hit or is that all just free flying? That was amazing

ok....i'll take it back...these photos are, in all seriousness, quite bad... your verticals are NOT vertical at 7:01... close, but not vertical. And that HDR processing looks horrendous. I say this with love Potato, but I hope no one comes here for proper advice on real estate photography...

Bring a tilt shift lens next time. It makes a big difference. The 17mm and 24 are great. Canon is releasing a few AF tilt shift RF lens this year as well, mind blown.

Owning a painting business, I'm appalled at how they have rolled all the walls with fresh paint but didn't cut in the tops at the ceilings. I hope you can PS that. LOL

Have this nice house inside but the outside has had zero attention, you said it was still under construction but that yard has been in that state for at least a year or two

that shower is larger than my first apt too, lol

One important trait of a pro is asking other pros questions and learning from them to up your game. You guys are PROS! Love the intro!!

I shot one property last year, I used tripod with a 35mm, 17-40mm lenses

I will start real estate photography now because of this. Thanks for sharing.

While talking about the importance of verticals, you literally missed ALL of your verticals. LOL 😂

I think those FPV shots could land you a good amount of jobs in the future, it's a perfect way to show the exterior / aerial view of the house and then directly transition to the interior but not everyone has the skill, knowledge and equipment to do those and also have them look good and useful.

I don't know if he will see this but: Rami you are a LEGEND! Really great advices man!

Please start a real estate channel! Please and thank you! 😂📷

Love this man! Did you also shoot a real estate video? You're a video guy, so I'm assuming you did. I've been shooting real estate for 14 yrs.

The ugly question everyone is thinking about: how much did you charge?

I just posted my very 1st vloggish video like yours! I'm tired with that drone only shots so We are at the same page hahaha You're just at another level :)

Gene and you should ask Sam if he is subscribed on both channels

Can see the drone flying through @8:32 👍🏾👍🏾

Nice video. I just watched all 11 minutes :D

Table dust just reminded of something I do. I use Vinyl and Rubber Care by AutoGlym with a micro fibre cloth to shine things up a bit. 🤙🏻

I was just learning to shoot real estate. Great video Gene

you already got me sold! what's the price of the house 😂

I'm envious of your skill, and knowledge.... but not of the amount of work you've had to do to get it!

Everyone talking about real estate photography, I want to learn Russian strong English accent

Why in the hell would you want to do real estate. Its one above weddings which is one above porn.

Love this video!! Great drone clip going through the house!

Absolutely love your videos! You also bring what others tend to miss, personality and humanity. I’ve done plenty of property photography, so it was so interesting to see you take on this challenge.