Danpbphoto wrote:
Jim this is some fine work here!
I see the real estate ads around here for houses in Georgetown, DC and other hi end locals. I am not sure they are as equal as yours and they get mega bucks around here for real estate ad photos.
Dan
"Real Estate" photography is generally a notoriously undervalued commodity. I have not taken a single assignment from a realtor/listing agent in all my years as a pro. They typically expect to pay 1/3 of my day rate and sometimes less for coverage of their listing. The drone people who thought they were going to make a killing from the "real estate" market have been, in general, sorely disappointed. I get a call occasionally from a realtor who would like to pay me $150 to drive and hour, shoot their property and drive home. That is not my market, if you get my drift.
Having completed all my assignments for the week, today I have my landscaper hat on and plan on working around the house until my energy runs out. I've already mowed the sod we put down a couple of times and it's looking great. My next task is some hardscaping with stones and some bushes.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
"Real Estate" photography is generally a notoriously undervalued commodity. I have not taken a single assignment from a realtor/listing agent in all my years as a pro. They typically expect to pay 1/3 of my day rate and sometimes less for coverage of their listing. The drone people who thought they were going to make a killing from the "real estate" market have been, in general, sorely disappointed. I get a call occasionally from a realtor who would like to pay me $150 to drive and hour, shoot their property and drive home. That is not my market, if you get my drift....Show more →
When I worked for a living the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) rented a small space in our building. They offered classes to assist people in their real estate career with training classes for the state exams. One of their class offerings was real estate photography. During lunch, they would send the students out to take photos. The students used entry consumer DSLRs, point and shoot and cell phones. I can see why they only offered you $150, they probably thought that was a fortune for a real estate photography assignment.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
"Real Estate" photography is generally a notoriously undervalued commodity. I have not taken a single assignment from a realtor/listing agent in all my years as a pro. They typically expect to pay 1/3 of my day rate and sometimes less for coverage of their listing. The drone people who thought they were going to make a killing from the "real estate" market have been, in general, sorely disappointed. I get a call occasionally from a realtor who would like to pay me $150 to drive and hour, shoot their property and drive home. That is not my market, if you get my drift....Show more →
Oh indeed I get it Jim!
I know you are "on top of this"!
Got to pay to play!
Ray Swindle wrote:
When I worked for a living the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) rented a small space in our building. They offered classes to assist people in their real estate career with training classes for the state exams. One of their class offerings was real estate photography. During lunch, they would send the students out to take photos. The students used entry consumer DSLRs, point and shoot and cell phones. I can see why they only offered you $150, they probably thought that was a fortune for a real estate photography assignment.
Philosophy around here Ray is whatever they(realtors) have to pay you for your time is deducted from their over inflated commissions!
Now the hi end housing in DC and Montgomery County usually requires some "finess". So those photographers get what you and Jim deserve. Here in "the sticks" fee doesn't pay for gas!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Having completed all my assignments for the week, today I have my landscaper hat on and plan on working around the house until my energy runs out. I've already mowed the sod we put down a couple of times and it's looking great. My next task is some hardscaping with stones and some bushes.
Sounds like you're feeling a lot better Jim...Good news, just don't over do it
Devo(glasses) lives Zane! Love the trains. Wish the USA would get back to slow rail travel times 100.
Fall is turning fast here after a brutal summer!
Dan
Great shots, Bill, Zane! Hope you fell better, Jim. Haven't stopped by here for a while. Busy with work and fall foliage. I got sick of the news so I pretty much tune out.
Wow! I just had a rude technology awakening. My iMac at HQ is a "late 2013", and it was loaded at the time. Flew some aerials this morning and the light was a bit muted so I thought that I'd just check them out here in the office before I headed home. The CFExpress card had about 26GB on it, which normally would take 10-15 seconds to upload to my MacBook Pro. Th window popped up on my iMac telling me to expect 2 hours.............. didn't really take that long, probably 5 minutes. Ten seconds vs five minutes, I just made up my mind about updating the workflow here at the hangar.
I shot a game last night. I took this photo and processed it with my 13" MBP using Topaz DeNoise, then Lr and sent it off to the editor. This morning I put it on the 27" Studio monitor. I saw DeNoise did a pretty good job removing the noise and adding sharpness to the subjects, but the background was filled with noise. I pulled up noise reduction in Lr (could not use Denoise because it wasn't a RAW file from Topaz) to manually remove the noise. Looked OK. Then I enlarged the photo to check it out. The first photo is only cropped from landscape to portrait, the second is about 100%. What is going on with the orange peel on the neck/face of the player on the right and the left side of the football?
I like how the larger monitor shows the problems I can't see in my 13" laptop.
Love the trains. Wish the USA would get back to slow rail travel times 100.
