Kathy White Offline Upload & Sell: On
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dmacmillan wrote:
Tell us more about the circumstances under which you'll be doing real estate photography. Are you an agent? Do you want to get in the business? Are you doing this for fun?
If you want to do real estate photography seriously, you can sink a lot of money in gear. I 17mm TSE is a good place to start, but to do a top notch job you'll need to add lighting gear and another lens or two (24mm TSE).
I think a 16-35 would be a good starting point. It's a good lens to have in your arsenal anyway and would do a good job with real estate. If you want to get serious, then add the 17mm TSE.
BTW, I did my architectural and real estate mostly with 4x5 view cameras. Boy, what a pain!...Show more →
Circumstances are that i live about 10 miles from a lake. A friend who owns a real estate company just happened to have a client who was a photographer who resided in a lake home and when they got ready to sell, he took his own pics. These particular pics generated a lot of calls for my friends business that even resulted in sales of other properties. As a result he asked me if I would be willing to shoot just 2 or 3 houses for him a month. So, no I am not an agent, and no I won't be doing alot of this but I shot one for him the other day and even though what I had got the job done and he was very happy with it, I wasn't totally. I thought in many instances the 14 was too wide and the 24 mm of my 24 70 just not wide enough. Yes, I thought it would be fun, and I don't really want to do alot more than what he asked. It will mostly be higher end properties or lake properties.
Prior to this, I had already been looking and thinking I should add a wider lens. The lens I had already been considering prior to this was the 16 35 f4. The house the other day was very dark and the shots that I did at 2.8 using the 14mm Bower with off camera flash were fine DOF wise for the resolution they require.
To finish off the profile, I am a retired IT person, who lives in a very small town, and I mean very small. I do just very limited work that I am paid for and I never seek it out, it just happens to find me. What I earn from what little I do agree to do, I spend on gear, plus some of my own. I actually get more requests than I want but this one sounded like fun and I thought I would enjoy it. One of the upcoming projects he wants me to do is a big lodge on the lake with 3 homes and cabins on it.
I don't feel as if I have to totally justify what I spend With traveling and other things I do, I will use the equipment for other things as well as just fun too. I don't intend to go totally crazy. I just want to add one in the next month or so and perhaps one more later if I end up continuing with it. This will depend on how much it impacts his business as well as how much I enjoy it.
I do know what Canon offers but am not really that familiar with the other offerings. Particularly the crop vs FF models. That I find confusing. I find myself wishing they would all just use a standard code like EFS so that it was obvious. I don't want to accidentally buy something that will only work properly on my 7D2, I know some of them are intended for crops but will work on FF just with issues and I don't want that either. Right now, especially after reading the comments above, I am thinking add a 16 35 either 2.8 or f4, or similar very soon, and a 17 tse maybe later. Both of these I could also use for landscapes.
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