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Photographing Small Rooms

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Real Estate Agent with Realty Executives South Louisiana

When photographing a new listing, I sometimes come across a situation where my camera just doesn't have a broad enough field of view to take a good photograph of a room.  In those cases, I've simply taken several photographs of a portion of the room and then stiched them together.  For example, the following three photographs were taken in a small room by turning just a bit for each successive shot.

Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

Through software, these images are stiched together for the following result.

Stiched Photo

If you look close you can find the seams and there is some pin-cushioning like you'd get with an ultra-wide angle lens but you can see that the assembled photo shows off the features of the room better than any of the individual photos.

Gary Bolen
McCall Realty - South Lake Tahoe, CA
CRS - Lake Tahoe Real Estate Information

Don,

composite is nicely done. and the lighting is nicely tweaked too. good job. and thanks for the thought.

cheers 

Sep 26, 2007 02:41 PM
West Hartford CT Real Estate Agent | West Hartford Realtor | www.CTMike.com
ERA Broder Group - West Hartford, CT
Did you need a tripod for this?
Sep 26, 2007 02:41 PM
Vicky Poe
Good Ole Rocky Top - Crossville, TN
Realtor/ Auctioneer
It looks very nice.  What is the soft wear?
Sep 26, 2007 02:46 PM
Don Stern
Realty Executives South Louisiana - Baton Rouge, LA
Greater Baton Rouge Real Estate

Gary - Thanks

Michael - No tripod was used.  I do my best to hold the camera level and at the same height.

Vicky - Thanks.  I've used both the Photostich software which came from Canon with my camera as well as the create panorama tool supplied in the Visual Tour kit.  You can also just use Photoshop or the like but that's quite a bit more tedious than the previous two mentioned.

Sep 26, 2007 02:52 PM
Tania King
CIR REALTY - Calgary, AB
What a great solution.  Thanks! I just recently took some pictures and have not used them at all because of what it didn't show (the space), but had i known this... Thanks
Sep 26, 2007 03:25 PM
Richard Kimball
Keller Williams Realty New Orleans - New Orleans, LA
Why didn't I think of that? Don - thanks for sharing your photo tips I'll have to try that real soon.
Sep 26, 2007 04:58 PM
Lisa Heindel
Crescent City Living LLC - New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Real Estate Broker
Don, I've owned my camera for 3 years and just figured out I could stich photos with PhotoStitch about 2 months ago.  Voila!  Much better photos for my listings...if only I had read the instruction book at the beginning :)
Sep 27, 2007 12:13 AM