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Originally Posted by Minnie
I just wonder if this house is even habitable now, whether it got nailed in the flood. It might be an infill in the greatest sense of the word - filled in with muck and crap.  |
Not filled with anything and my understanding was it didnt get touched by flood waters.
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Originally Posted by sun
I shoot interiors for a living. This photographer was probably paid <$200 to shoot this place and deliver ~20 photos in an hour or less. In my opinion, she's shooting too wide and has colour cast issues, but real estate photography is a tough game. If you've shot some interiors, you know it can be tricky - no scene is ever the same as the last. For real estate, the margins aren't there to wait for the sun to move, to bring in a bunch of lights, to scrim windows, to stitch together multiple tilt-shift exposures, etc. "Good enough" is the name of the game.
I dunno how it is in Calgary, but big box companies here have driven prices into the dirt while providing pretty nice photos (better than these). So you either have to treat it as a business (like a trade) and cut corners on the "art" side, or use it as a stepping stone to shoot commercial properties.
Maybe I'm just defensive of my fellow interior photogs, but these photos are better than probably 90% of what's out there on the MLS. You can see in this thread that (presumably) non-photogs like the photos. Verts are good, and that's all a layman would notice, and even then they probably wouldn't.
In mind, Travis is doing his job and so is his photographer, even though you and I think the photos could be better. Not sure if we should be critiquing her technique in this thread though lol. Wanna take this discussion over to the never-ending photo thread?
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Im always open to criticism however I would like to point out that 1 I wish I was paying what you had said and 2, it takes much more than a hour.
One of the biggest agents in Canada turned this photographer down because she was too expensive. I have worked with quite a few photographers and hands down have received the best quality from the one I am using now.
As someone mentioned above, my job is to get people into the property and to make their home stand out. The photos stand out and in turn get people into my listings. Are some people upset by what the end up seeing? of course however more people through = higher chance of a offer. 2 of my sales this spring came from listings other realtors couldnt sell.
If any of the photographers on this board are interested I will gladly have you shoot my next listing, post/use the pictures and see what all the "non photographers" think. If your pictures stand out from my normal ones I will begin hiring you for all listings.
Most photographers can make a staged million dollar home look good. Let me take you to a 400k property with a family of 6 and see what you can do!