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August 19th, 2010
As if you needed another excuse to buy one. (needs to be an iPhone 4 or 3GS camera version)
Whether you are a Real Estate Salesperson or not, its not always convenient to get the best photo of a home potentially for sale.
I mean….. oftentimes when you are called to pop around for a visit, its at a time when the light isn’t the best to take a photo, at least a good one.
http://www.pictional.com/TrueHDR/Overview.html
Regular readers will know I have an interest in real estate photography with more than a passing interest in HDR and “blending.”
So I was quite surprised to learn that there is actually an iPhone app that will process an HDR type image – and do it all in-camera, ready for you to just upload that shot directly to the office, or immediately onto the web.
iPhone app TrueHDR
Even more reasons to go mobile if you ask me.
To find out more head on over to their site, where they also have a gallery of before and afters photos – I particularly like the one with the sun streaming through the clouds. (about half-way down the page)
iPhone owning Real Estate Salespersons will soon have no excuse, not even for a hastily taken listing photo!
August 19 2010 | Nelson and Technology and photography | 1 Comment »
August 5th, 2010
Curb appeal will never have been more important than it will become soon.
Why?
Property Info Screen
Well, because Augmented Reality apps like the one officially just released by CBA will allow potential home buyers to find out all the For Sale info simply by driving down a street, and aiming/pointing their mobile phone (obviously for it to be situationally aware of its location the mobile phone would need to be a GPS enabled one) at the home.
Click pic to see video.....
Currently this Augmented Reality Real Estate application for Home Buyers is in Australia only, and would appear to be an iPhone only app, but surely soon they will be here in NZ too, and really open up some possibilities.
SOME PROS
Buyers can drive straight to a suburb of their choice, and then down streets of there choosing and immediately get comprehensive data on their phone, not only of FOR SALE properties, but like the above video demonstrates, comparable pricing of recently sold neighbouring properties.
Like the Internet, the property has the ability to be virtually viewed 24hrs a day.
For Real Estate buyers looking in areas like Nelson, Tauranga, Queenstown….holiday / lifestyle / convention type towns….anyone in town on a short trip (read not the time to ph and make a viewing appt with a Real Estate person) can in less than 30 seconds find out as much as they probably want to know at that stage. Plus they don’t need to find a pen & paper to write it down, just send the info / link via email to themselves and it will there when they get back home.
SOME CONS
Homes that present non-positively from the street make notice a reduction in viewings.
Agents less in control of viewing (“prepping the property”) times.
If iPhones apps are already being used in Emergency Rooms, then apps like this one are sure to be “basic kit” for tomorrows Real Estate property purchaser I’d say.
August 05 2010 | Buyers and Sellers and Technology and photography | No Comments »
This is what happens when a Real Estate Agent tries to
wear two hats, that of a Real Estate Agent and that of a professional “Home Stager.”
Very interesting take on window dressing is all I can say.
And another……
See I went to this course on “Home Staging” and…
they taught you how to “stage” a house for sale.
Glad I went……
And this agent……
It really does look like he didn’t attend the training course on Home Staging that day….
Really how hard would it have been to move the chairs.
Then again if the agent didn’t have the time to do that then its no wonder……
1. the desk/file trays left of the computer are a mess
2. items haven’t been removed off the bed
3.the rubbish bin removed to take the picture.
July 19 2010 | Refs Choice and photography | No Comments »
This time I was in even more of a hurry…..
1. Still getting used to the wide angle thing here. (HINT – place your camera mid way between the ceiling and the floor and that way you will minimise as much as possible the vertical lines going stray like has happened in the above photo. Importantly keep the camera horizontal, don’t point it up or down))
2. Truly how long would it have taken the agent to remove the large plastic rubbish bag centre left of shot.
3. It would have taken all of 10 seconds to remove the dish drying tray, what looks like a cutting board, and a bowl from the kitchen benchtop to “open up” the scene more.
4. And while you were at it, remove the following before taking the photo, the green upside down bowl on the benchtop, the shoes out the door, need I go on……….
AND….
Drat knew I forgot something…..
…forgot to take the photos as I was in too much of a rush to get the listing form signed.
No worries just take a snap while I’m conducting the Open Home! (Open Home Book / flyers “staged” on the table for “effect?)
AND….
Can anyone tell me?
Outside bedroom.
Is this a “sleepout’?
Why the heck are the mattress’s still there?
July 16 2010 | Refs Choice and photography | No Comments »
1. When it absolutely has to be there overnight, who do you call?
It was dark when I got there……..Hmmm?
2. Watching you
Quite eery really......
lets hope prospective buyers aren’t superstitious?
3. Quick – what was that…..
Hope photographer got a Model Release signed.....
oh just a Real Estate Agent with a camera…..
4. Beds made….
5. This time we are selling the size of the…..
…unsure about this one……..?
In light of some uninvited guest paying visits to homes on the market unannounced and at times when the owners aren’t always home, then this type of photo could be deemed inappropriate.
6. A bedroom scene
Will go so far as to say it doesn’t show it, in its best light I think.
7. Feature of this room is…
…patented new style Window Opener, roof mounted too.
8. And our friend is at it again…the manager said you have to take a certain number of photographs for the internet listing
Photo 1 – from this angle
now I’ll move a bit for the next Photo 2
and a slightly different angle on this one, Photo 3
Whew – that’ll do it.
July 08 2010 | Refs Choice and photography | No Comments »
…and the manager wants at least six photos for the Internet listing.
Lets get the camera out...
Lets go then…..
2nd photo - just 4 to go now.....
Two…
just 3 to go now.......
….three down….
nearly done now...
now for a different angle…….
just one to go now.....
just one more to go………..whew!
finished!
…..that oughta cover it.
July 06 2010 | Nelson and Refs Choice and photography | No Comments »
Yes one does look better than…
well, marginally better than the other, but then why include both in the listing photos….huh?
..and whats with holding your finger over part of the flash?
July 05 2010 | Refs Choice and photography | No Comments »
Photos that invite?
……actually not too sure about this one qualifying though.
Copy did say “Swimming Pool….”
You would have thought that at least the agent would have asked around, perhaps even the owners may have had a photo with it looking better than this?
The alternative – just don’t show it.
As we all know swimming pools are viewed by buyers like corner sections – they really do polarize folk.
Reminds me of a saying I was told once about owning a boat. In the lifecycle of boat ownership there are two happiest times – and I’m sure you can guess what they are?
July 03 2010 | Refs Choice and photography | No Comments »
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