How Not to Take Real Estate Photos

sometimes it can be so hard to take pictures of rooms! This room for example it just looks like your trying to sell a couch ;)

With all of the marketing done on-line with virtual tours etc. photos are the drawing and staying power of a potential buyer.  It seems best to take the photos when the sun is at it's highest in a day.  At least that takes care of one of photo issues.  Sometimes shutting the blinds or turning lights and allowing the flash to work does a nice job also.  Thanks for the post.

Jonathan, I was looking at the photo and thought what is wrong with it? It's a little cluttered, then I looked at the window and saw the dog, oh wait two dogs! yikes! too funny.

I thought you were referring to all of the stuff in the space...I didn't even catch the dogs until I saw your comment.  Now that's hilarious!  I wonder how many people caught that one!

~Chanda (no 'r') :)

LOL!!  I saw that photo several years ago and I thought it was a hoot!!  I wonder how quickly that house sold?

LOL, I was thinking that I had seen many worse room shots than that untill you all mentioned the dogs! Now that is funny!!

Thanks for the laugh!

That's hilarious!!! Sadly enough, the dogs were the first thing I noticed. My eyes always pick up the brightest area of a pic first. Thanks for the chuckle.

Jonathan. I thought that was 2 dogs doing the nasty.  Very funny and yes, something to avoid.

Too Funny. Most of the time the light outside the window is so bright it washes out most to all detail outside. Thanks for the laugh. I will surely keep this in mind when I'm doing photo shoots.  

It's not just taking the photo, it's what happens to it in post-processing.

Here's a comparison of an out-of-a-high-resolution-camera (what the camera sees) image and a High Dynamic Range (what the eyes see) image of a room.

http://sandiegorealestatephotography.com/portfolio.aspx