First realestate shoot

eMOJO

So I have a few clients through my design business that are agents and have asked me to shoot some homes they are listing... I said yes as it will put me in front of people that may be wanting a new home designed = win for my design business.

I've done my first shoot and the client is quite happy with the results but I would like to improve, and inprove as fast as I can, so I'm posting a few shots for some honest C+C... any feedback you can give would be greatly appreciated.











...these are just a sample of what I provided.

Cheers
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JoRe

This is far from my expertise - and there are big cultural differences to. In Sweden all houses and apartments are "fake furnished" for the shots. Still, I've been looking for a new house for close to a year, so I have seen my share of sales photos for homes

In my experience, there are two styles; the first tries to show as much as possible in each shot, basically trying to give you a virtual visit of the place. The second style never really gives you the full picture but homes in on nice details, cool angles and tries to give the feeling of the house. Personally I like the first better but I don't know what sells most houses

I think #1 should have less sky and maybe a bit more narrow angle on the lens.

#2 is nice, it's inviting, shows a lot of light. As a potential house buyer I like the picture, as a photographer I'm a bit uneased by the distortion caused by the wide angle lens. It feels like everything is tilting to the left except the nice stone wall partition. With wide angle it's important to have the camera either exactly at the mid point of floor and ceiling (to get even distortion) or get far from the midpoint, in this case I would sit down close the the floor.

#3 is great, good balance of light without the use of HDR. I like HDR very much but not in these kinds of pictures.

#4 this picture feel like the second category I mentioned. It's a nice gas stove, maybe crop it down and focus even more on it? That would get rid of the not so clean mirror behind.

#5 good, nice, clean. It's difficult with these pictures when there are mirrors and reflections everywhere. Is it you mid right? Maybe just clone that part away. But it's really just a small detail.

mercphoto

The last two have a lot of perspective distortion due to the wide angle and the fact the camera was not level. You can either fix this in post production, or try to keep the camera level, or use a T/S lens. Personally I'd try a bit of perspective fix on those last two shots.

eMOJO

Thankyou for your feedback... I'll have to hone my PP skills to correct perspective.

Jon, well spotted... that ensuite was a nightmare to shoot, reflective surfaces everywhere!

mercphoto

I believe you can perspective correct within Adobe Camera Raw rather easily. Worth checking out.