Get Back to Basics With Real Estate Photography Using Your DSLR Camera
Use a full-frame (full sensor) DSLR and take maximum advantage of your expensive lenses. Shoot and save RAW files (On my Canon 5D Mark II, these are 21MB images). Raw + JPEG is okay, as it gives you both. Back-up every image you shoot and archive them on an external desktop hard drive. Use a tripod. Turn off the flash on your camera. Learn to shoot with ambient light (daylight supplemented by indoor lighting). Picture Style should be set to "Natural". Shoot in Manual Mode - Shooting in Auto mode is a bit like (3 comments)
Fisheye lenses have their place in real estate photography. Ten years ago, people were using fisheye photos to create 360-degree panoramic tours. But times have changed. Uncompressed fisheye shots make great interior panoramas, without the use of 360 degree software. For these examples, I used a Canon 5D Mark II camera body with the f2.8 Canon 15mm Fisheye lens. All of the shots below were uncompressed using DxO software.
This ultrawide kitchen shot was purely an experiment, but it gives you an idea of the visual impact of a one-click interior (26 comments)
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Eric Kodner
Wayzata Lakes Realty: Twin Cities, Madeline Island