How To Photograph Real Estate and Vacation Rentals Information

Perhaps you have heard “the photos in a listing are the most important piece of marketing any property can have!” Not only is this true, but incredible photos will grab the attention of potential buyers and/or renters, while bad photos will make them completely overlook the property. In short, you do not want poor photos anywhere near your own listings.

If you’re just getting into architecture photography, you know just how complicated and expensive this industry can be, but it doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg.

In this six-hour tutorial, world-renowned architectural photographer Mike Kelley simplifies everything and teaches the average person, with no background in photography, how to photograph real estate with less than $1,000 in gear and with one easy-to-use and affordable photo editing program.

If you’ve wanted to shoot real estate for your clients or your own properties to sell or to rent but you didn’t know where to begin, this tutorial is for you.

What You’ll Learn In How To Photograph Real Estate and Vacation Rentals?

• Conceptual overview of what a standard real estate shoot requires
• Equipment overview: what is essential and the best bang for your buck
• How many pictures are needed to capture a space
• Where to place your camera for the best angle
• Choosing the strongest composition
• What focal lengths to use
• Camera settings for every situation
• Using your histogram
• Bracketing multiple exposures
• Shooting with mixed lighting (artificial and natural)
• Using an off-camera flash to improve dark rooms
• How to stage and declutter a scene
• Managing distracting reflections
• How to photograph small spaces
• Capturing a view without it going pure white
• Shooting twilight exterior hero shots
• How to use Adobe Lightroom
• Color correction and capturing accurate color
• Removing blemishes in post-production
• Correcting vertical lines
• Using neutral gradients
• Cropping to make your photos the most impactful
• Exporting final images for web and print
• Blending HDR images
• Sky replacements

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