Having good looking pictures in your listings is a plus, but expecting agents to learn this craft is unreasonable. It takes years to get an eye and feel for the subject you shoot (in this case a house) to get the right angle. Hiring photographers can also be quite pricey.  I think the best solution is to allow advertisers to do their job (which is to place listings in magazines and such) which includes manipulating photos. If the realtor can't get it right, surely someone in the print department can. Coming back to having good pictures ini listings, one thing i've noticed, is the direct correlation of a picture between it's size and the amount of time it takes to sell that listing.  Apparently both selling and buying consumers like large pictures in listings.  It's both a stroke of ego and apparently cognitive recognition that leads people to choose the listings with large pictures as opposed to those with numerous smaller ones.  K, back to subject, although i think we can all agree 1 large high quality picture is more meaningful than 3 smaller lesser quality pictures.