Still, the importance of a main photo cannot be overstated. I’ve looked into radio controlled helicopter photography. There is a guy outside of Denver at http://www.hotshot.net who does a great job with it. I haven’t made it past getting the flight simulator to see if i can even fly one of the contraptions, let alone strap my $1000 nikon to the bottom of it. Hot shot takes photos are 50 feet…they are amazing.

PAP seems like a good a alternative in the short term…now i just need to figure out how to get a 9 foot pole in my smallish car.

What many people don’t understand in the biz is that a superior “main photo” can sell a house faster than an average one. I would say it is worth the extra investment. I would prefer 10 professionally produced shots of a house than 50 amateur ones, because those photos are the honey you want to use to bait the consumer into calling you for more info. Make the honey sweeter and I think good things follow.

Unfortunately in my experience, most real estate photographers are either not truly trained professional photographers and/or are in such a hurry that they just don’t care (or they are realtors/assistants).