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Introduction for Real Estate Photography

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Hi my name is Alex and I will be taking you through a photographer training tutorial where you learn the principles and techniques of real estate photography. Make sure you have your camera and tripod on hand so you can change settings accordingly and experiment with some of the techniques intermittently as we go through different processes and ideas.<br/><br/><h2>Before we get started on the photography side of the job, we need to do a basic overview of best practices once you arrive at a property.</h2><br/>Firstly, it's important to remember that though there are formulas and rules of real estate photography that you'll be thinking about every shoot, every agent and broker has different preferences and goals, depending on their taste and the distinctive characteristics of the listing. Therefore after you've met the agent and gone through baseline introductions, ask them to give you a tour of the property so they can voice any specific shot ideas,angles are elements of the property they especially want to capture.<br/><br/>This will give you a good sense of their marketing goal and the layout of the house so you can mentally prepare for the forthcoming shoot. Don't hesitate to respectfully raise concerns if agent has a poor shot idea that you know won't work. In these situations you may want to take the shot and show them it's a bad idea rather than trying to describe why. Nonetheless, the ultimate goal is to give the agent what they want, so be compliant and experiment with bizarre ideas if necessary.<br/><br/>Sometimes you may even be surprised. After you've gotten a tour from the agent, start prepping the house for photos. This means turning on all light fixtures and lamps, pulling up blinds and hiding remote controls, Kleenex boxes, sponges and any other items inside that will show poorly in photos and make it difficult on your <a href="https://www.phixer.net/">real estate image retouching company</a>. For staged houses, you probably won't have to move anything out of the way but in properties where the homeowners are still living there, you may have to hide some personal items and declutter a bit. Remember you have a limited amount of time to finish the shoot, so if the house is overly cluttered or unprepared for shooting, ask the agent whether you should reschedule or if they're comfortable shooting the property in its present condition. There's only so much you can do and you're a photographer not a home cleaner/stager.<br/><br/><h2>Do not spend more than 15 minutes prepping the property.</h2><br/>Do what you can within that limit, however moving heavy furniture, decluttering every room, sweeping etc are not your responsibilities. If you have time, avoid including the following items in your shots; bath mats, small carpets or mats on the kitchen floor, modems and bundles of cords, the homeowner's personal photos, toothbrushes, shampoo bottles and personal toiletries in general, trash cans, bedside alarm clocks, home phones, dog beds, litter boxes and anything else that will negatively affect the marketability of the listing. Usually these items can be gently move to the outside of the frame of the photo, then returned once you finish capturing the space. A note on blinds, in general all window blinds should be pulled up there are few exceptions to this rule, so leave the blinds up if;<br/><br/>A. The view outside is really unpleasant, for example there's a dumpster and industrial refinery, a chaotic construction site or anything else that would devalue the listing.<br/><br/>B. If the agent and insists for whatever reason, on leaving them down, you are after all working for them.<br/><br/>And lastly:<br/><br/>C. If the blinds are broken and won't stay level or pull up entirely. Sometimes excessively heavy blinds can be problematic and it's best not to risk pulling them off the wall. Leave the blinds down and twist them open so light can come through the windows. Other notes on prepping the house; make sure you remove security signs from the front yard before taking exterior shots, also hoses should be either coiled or removed from view.<br/><br/>Garage doors should be closed and garbage cans either moved into the garage or out of view. In kitchen's especially, make sure you double check for cabinet under lighting and turn the stove lights on. Dining room and breakfast table chairs should be tucked in even and orderly. Fans, fireplaces, TVs in any other kinetic features of the listing should be turned off. These objects will appear blurry and disorienting once the disparate exposures are fused by your real estate photo retoucher into an HDR composite.

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Object Removal using Photoshop: A Tutorial for Beginners

March 17, 2019

Object Removal using Photoshop: A Tutorial for Beginners
Photo Editing, Real Estate Photo Editing

March 17, 2019

In real estate photography, how to get started is always the consideration. Every business starts from scratch and only the interest in the business will be the main idea if a photographer yearns to learn more. The only thing that results in making someone retreat to continue the photography business is the lack of the essential skills needed for lots of things.

Aside from the basics of image shooting, one skill that stands the most is photo editing. Professional photographers make use of photo editing software to do this. One of the most sought after editing applications is Photoshop. Because anybody can use Photoshop’s various features even without the Internet, editing of different images can be done easily. This goes to show that you can take any editing works for as long as you possess the skills for the job.

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Being a real estate photographer uses lots of photo shooting days as part of marketing purpose. Other than this, it is also used to perfecting some of the minute details. In this way, some common mistakes are avoided. A photographer does not only consider the right time of day to create good shots. Other factors like right lighting and good angle are also important in developing good quality real estate photos. It makes the user reconnected to the computer anytime without connecting the hard drive.

There are many factors to consider why photo editing is important. The creation of stunning real estate photos is what buyers really wanted to see in the listing. There are many elements in the photos that are important, while there things that are needed to be removed. There are many experts that can be outsourced who are well-versed in the different features of Photoshop.

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Remove Objects through Photoshop


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Removing unwanted items from a photo is an easy task to do using Photoshop. The most common Photoshop tools that are used for the removal of unnecessary elements in a photo are Content Aware Fill, Spot Healing Brush Tool, and Clone-Stamp Tool. These are very important tools to create an image just as you want it to be displayed in your real estate listing.

• Content Aware Fill

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This tool works best for the removal of big objects. It is also useful in the removal of difficult sections from a photo. This feature of the Photoshop identifies details of the area of your choice. The detached objects can be immediately replaced with the details that best blends with the picture.

But before using the Content Aware Fill, you need to make a selection first. You need to pick the Lasso tool and use it around the area or object you wanted to delete. This is the time that you have to go to Edit menu and click Fill. Select the Content-Aware by using the drop-down menu and click OK afterwards.

• Spot Healing Brush Tool

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Combining with the Content Aware Fill, Spot Healing Brush Tool can clean up extra elements not needed in the picture. One of the main functions of this tool is to smoothen the jagged spots. You can do this by selecting the Healing Brush, click and hold over on the area of concern. Use Spot Healing Brush to also erase undesired sections of the photo.

For real estate photos, this tool can remove thousands of unwanted objects like lamp posts, closed circuit television cameras, architectural flaws like broken walls, unfixed electrical convenience outlets, or any objects and imperfections that are uncomfortable to the eyes. You can also use Spot Healing Brush Tool to remove acne and other skin blemishes for personal pictures.

• Clone Stamp Tool

Clone Stamp Tool

Photo retouching can be done easily with the availability of software like Photoshop. Using the Clone Stamp Tool, retouching of photos will allow you to imitate or copy a section of the photo to another area of another photo. This feature is a basic Photoshop tool since the beginning to remove unwanted details of a photo.

Since a photo is made up of tiny pixels, Clone Stamp Tool exchanges pixels with pixels. This makes editing looks indistinguishable. To use this tool, you need to set a sampling point on the section you wanted to clone. This is done with the use of paint. To paint the existing sampling point, choose the Aligned selection. You can anytime deselect the Aligned option whenever you wanted to stop.

To completely alter the image, you have to select the Clone Stamp Tool, select the brush tip, and set the brush options for blending mode. Only then that you can distinguish the area you want to align with the sampled pixels. To set the sampling point, position the pointer to any part of the image and click Alt.

Although optional, you can scale or rotate the source that you are imitating. You can even reverse the source’s direction, or even show an overlay of the source. These are all done with the use of Clone Stamp Tool.

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