I sent out a bit of marketing recently to the top 40 agents in WA state, the resposne has been overwhelming and I'm now swimming in bookings (that's the good news). The bad news is this has revealed a weakness in my business model which is time spent on backend process (post work). It's taking too long...strictly speaking I'm rapidly approaching more business than I can handle.
As a result, I'm shifting certain interior shots from primarily HDR to primarily strobe lit. This costs more time at the shoot but saves a ton more time on the backend.
I called up one of my long time friends and clients and they were all too happy to provide me with a home to shoot. ;)
Then I had a thought, since I'll be knocking around this big empty house enjoying some practice and experimentation, maybe a few folks would like to come along and work on their skills with me.
I'm more than happy to share my knowledge and opinions (lord knows I'm seldom shy about my opinions, lol).
The house I will be working in is a Johnson-Chen in the Newcastle Reserve. He's one of the premier builders here in the northwest and his houses are consistently among the finest I've seen.
(here's a couple pics I snapped last year of one of his buildings):
Anyway, there's a lot opportunity in a listing like this as you have many different lighting / composition arrangments, nooks and crannies etc.
I probably can't take more than 3-4 people at a time and still give the right amount of attention. It might be fun to post some of the work back to this group as well and sort of talk about different things tried etc. :)
If you are interested, please let me know. You will need to have an SLR and this is open to any realtors or stagers (no competitors please ;).
If there's more folks interested we'll need to figure out some way to pick. Maybe we do this once a quarter? Could be fun.
Anyway, drop me a line.
Cheers, -B
Professional-Photographer
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