
Welcome to real estate photography!
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.
The bare essentials you'll need to get started shooting real estate right away.
There are certain camera settings that never change from shoot to shoot. Let's set those up!
HDR is a common technique for shooting real estate, but flash brings some additional benefits. Let's discuss those!
Flash gear is a lot less complicated than it used to be! Learn just how simple it can be in this chapter!
Real estate photographs have to follow a certain set of composition rules to achieve their goal. We discuss those rules in this chapter.
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.
Let's get started with our shoot! We'll take a quick tour of the property before we begin taking our very first photos in the bedroom. We'll gain an understanding of how to create the "building blocks" of our finished photos.
Let's move on to the second bedroom angle.
Living rooms can be a little more complex than bedrooms. We'll apply all the rules we know to create our building blocks.
Let's take another angle of the living room and create more building blocks.
It's important to show the "flow" of a home, and that's what this shot does. We'll take a photo that allows a viewer to get a sense of how they can move around the space from room to room.
Kitchens are the often the most important interior photos. We'll walk through how to create the right building blocks for most kitchens.
This is a second angle of the kitchen. More angles are important because they show the position of appliances.
The more kitchen shots you can deliver, the better!
Bathrooms are often the most difficult shots for beginner real estate photographers to compose. We'll discuss the basic guidelines to great bathroom photos.
Exterior photography is a lot more simple than interior, but some guidelines should be followed. We'll discuss those here.
Lightroom can be intimating for newcomers. In this lecture, we set up our Lightroom library, learn how to apply presets in large batches, and get our photos ready for the next step.
We'll discuss and walk through how to build quality real estate photos in this lecture. This is the meat and potatoes of the whole technique!
Moving on to the rest of the bedroom and living room! We're improving and getting more comfortable with the editing process.
Let's finish up the kitchen, and move on to the bathroom.
This is where we learn to make our vertical lines PERFECTLY vertical. It's an important step and should not be missed.
Exterior editing in just a few clicks!
You've got a set of beautiful photos. The next step is to make sure we export them so they can be properly uploaded to MLS. These upload systems are quite picky, and it's important to make sure we get the parameters right!
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.