As a professional photographer in Real Estate it makes me cringe when I see some of the listing photos put out there. You've seen them, the photos that do more harm than good.. Over 80% of home shopping begins on the internet where your pictures do ALL the talking, that's a big deal!
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My name is Sandy Jagmin, my husband and I own Brick Road Visuals. We offer professional photography, 360° interactive virtual tours, and marketing solutions to real estate agents and businesses in Benton and Washington counties in Arkansas. If you are ready to let me take on some of your workload so you can concentrate on bigger and better things don't hesitate to give me a call. If you are not ready for a professional, but you want to improve your photos read on...
There are a lot of things I watch for when taking my photos - blown out windows, flash reflections, out of focus shots, under- or overexposed shots, the list goes on.
It's a warm sunny day and the sky is just beautiful. A great day for snapping pictures of homes, huh? You get our your camera - ready, aim, fire - but then you notice it. Your beautiful sky is white! WHY!!?
It's very similar to the blown out windows I went over in a past post. The sky is so bright that in order for the camera to expose the home itself properly it has to over expose the sky. If you were to expose for the sky the shutter would stay open a shorter amount of time than it would when you expose for the home, in that case the face of the home would be very dark. Instead, the camera exposes for the home leaving the shutter open too long (for the sky), and letting in too much light to expose the sky properly.
What to do? You can't really control the sun, all you can really do is work with it. When you shoot, as you are facing the home, if you are also facing the sun your sky will most likely blow out. But when you are facing the home, if the sun is behind you, your sky is more likely to not blow out.
There are 2 reasons you get a better photo when the sun is behind you. The first reason is that since you are not shooting toward the sun, you don't have as much light coming into your lens so it's not as likely to overexpose the sky. The other reason is that when the sun is behind you is it throwing more light on the face of the home, which allows your camera to use a faster shutter speed to get the proper exposure. A faster shutter speed helps the sky not blow out.
Unfortunately, if the sun is behind you when you are shooting the front of the home - it's going to be in front of you when you shoot the rear of the home.
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Sandy Jagmin
Brick Road Visuals
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