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Real Estate Photography In a FLASH
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(152 ratings)
558 students
Created bySpencer Davis
Last updated 4/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • The how's and the why's of real estate photography.
  • The basic gear requirements and how to set it all up.
  • Why we use flashes and how they work to improve images.
  • What exposure settings to use while shooting real estate.
  • How to set up Adobe Lightroom.
  • What is color balance and how to achieve correct color balance.
  • How to blend images in Photoshop to craft beautiful images.
  • How to get perfect verticals (very important!)
  • Exporting finished photos for MLS upload.
  • This course is centered around the "flambient" or flash-ambient blending technique and is specifically designed for beginners.

Course content

3 sections25 lectures2h 14m total length
  • Introduction1:45

    Welcome to real estate photography!

  • The Goals of Real Estate Photography1:20

    Real estate photography is quite different from other genres of photography. Let's learn about exactly what we're trying to achieve with real estate photos.

  • Basic Gear2:26

    The bare essentials you'll need to get started shooting real estate right away.

  • Camera Settings3:21

    There are certain camera settings that never change from shoot to shoot. Let's set those up!

  • Flash and Real Estate Photography2:58

    HDR is a common technique for shooting real estate, but flash brings some additional benefits. Let's discuss those!

  • Flash Gear and How It Works1:42

    Flash gear is a lot less complicated than it used to be! Learn just how simple it can be in this chapter!

  • Composition Rules4:44

    Real estate photographs have to follow a certain set of composition rules to achieve their goal. We discuss those rules in this chapter.

  • The Building Blocks of Real Estate Photography1:12

    High quality real estate photos are actually composed of several parts of different photographs, shot with various techniques. In this chapter, we discuss the "blueprint" to follow while we're out shooting.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of the exposure triangle (aperture, ISO, shutter speed).

Description

Real estate photography is a very unique genre of photography. It requires a special set of skills at the shoot as well as during post-processing. We don't often acquire this set of skills from shooting or editing any other genres of photography.

​This course is specifically designed to provide the skills needed to produce high quality real estate photographs with the beginner real estate photographer in mind.

This course is packed with over 2 hours of video covering the HOW and the WHY of real estate photography.

We begin with the absolute basics by talking about essential gear. We then move on to composition rules for real estate photography and how they help to achieve our goal. After that, we move on to a sample photoshoot. We walk through each room in detail, taking several angles of each room.

Post-processing, or editing, is where the real magic happens. It can be a complex process for beginners who are new to Photoshop and Lightroom, but we break each step down into easy-to-understand parts so that even total newcomers can get comfortable in the workflow.

All topics are covered in extreme detail, perfect for beginners!

  • The goals of real estate photography

  • Basic gear and how to prepare it

  • Flash gear and how it works

  • Composition rules

  • The techniques to produce high quality images

  • Proper exposure settings

  • Achieving correct color balance

  • Window views

  • Setting up Lightroom and Photoshop

  • Understanding editing workflow

  • Making your images "pop!"

  • Exposure blending with layer masks

  • Removing "color casts"

  • Aligning verticals

  • Exporting your photos for MLS

You should have a basic understanding of general photography before beginning this course, although it is not required. Knowing the exposure triangle, and how it affects your overall image will be helpful however.

Thank you for letting me be your guide as you begin your real estate photography journey! Are you ready to begin? Let's get started.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner real estate photographers who want to skip HDR and jump into the "flambient" or flash-ambient blending method for high quality results fast.