Posts by Larry Lohrman

On Friday I managed to update my “old” iPhone to 2.0 software. I think iPhone apps and the iTunes app store are the most significant feature of the recent Apple iPhone upgrade circus. Since I’m a hopelessly addicted 360 image geek the first iPhone app I downloaded from the store was the PangeaVR 360 image [...]

As a still photographer I’ve have difficulty getting into many of the property vids being done for real estate because of all the quality compromises currently necessary with vid. However, when I recently came across this property vid done by Brad Clements of propvid.tv a property vid company in Australia, I was stunned. This by [...]

Last Friday (April 25) we put on what I think is the first ever Real Estate Photography workshop. The sign-up process was a good indication of the current popularity of this subject. We sold out a week in advance. We sold several canceled seats almost instantly and I was still getting requests to attend the [...]

On my last shoot of a home in Issaquah, I tried a technique that is becoming popular with real estate photographers. It’s called High Dynamic Range (HDR for short) or Exposure Fusion. This technique allows you to produce interior photos that are light and bright without using any complicated lighting equipment. The way this works [...]

I’ve been using the new Photoshop Express beta that Michael Price did a post on earlier and wanted to do a follow up post to Michael’s. First of all I want to say that I think Photoshop Express is a really slick app that has a ton of cool features. However, I want to consider [...]

Recently the readers of my blog and the associated flickr group decided that they wanted to organize some workshops on real estate photography so they’ve put together an initial workshop in Seattle on April 25 to tryout the concept. For all the details and online registration click here. We’ve decided to bring Scott Hargis, a [...]

I’ve talked about About Adobe Lightroom in a previous posts. Lightroom has become the center of my work-flow for photography. It’s everything a camera owner needs. One of of Lightroom’s fantastic features is it’s ability to take a collection of finish photos and FTP them to your website in slide show form. Other photo-editors can [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how much a little added elevation can help out a exterior real estate shot. Because the front exterior shot is what buyers doing web searches initially see of homes a little extra effort and expense can be well worth the added cost. There are a number of ways to [...]

Susanne Hayek who is a real estate photographer in the Pasadena, CA area and reader of my blog told me yesterday that her good friend Scott Kleiman who is a Realtor at Sotheby’s in Pasadena is very sick with CLL (Leukemia) and needs to find a matching bone marrow donor to survive. Scott was Susanne’s [...]

More and more Realtors and home sellers are taking advantage of the expertise of professional real estate photographers. In the slower market these days great photography is an obvious way to complete with all the other listings in this high inventory market. I’ve been building a real estate photographer directory as a service to my [...]

Showing off a listing with large (800×600) photos presented with a smooth, elegant Flash interface is an extremely effective. One of the easiest an most inexpensive ways of doing that is with a buildatour.com slide show. Out of hundreds of alternatives for presenting this kind of Flash slide show for a property I think buildatour [...]

What would a good real estate photography setup be if you were purchasing today? CNET currently rates the Nikon D80 and Canon EOS Rebel XT as the top DSLRs under $1,000. Both of these cameras are in the top 5 best selling DSLRs in the US. Top selling is a good data point because popularity [...]