Bad Real Estate Photography: Boy Do People Notice!
This past weekend, I took a two-day class on digital photography at Birmingham School of Photography. I figured it was about time I learned how to operate the Nikon D3100 that I bought myself as a Christmas present last year.
Anywho one by one, the students in the class told what kind of pictures they would be taking most. And as each described their intent, the rest of the class ooohhhhed and ahhhhed with the utmost affection and then moved on to the next student.
But noooooooooo, when I stated that I would be using my to take better photos of my real estate listings, the "entire" class began to talk at once about the awful real estate photos that they see online. I couldn't help but laugh and as a matter of fact, I chimed in with the rest of them.
Bottom line is this, for those that take terrible real estate photos and actually upload them to the MLS, you may not hear about how badly people talk about those terrible photos, but trust me they notice. So here's the deal, even with a point and shoot camera, real estate agents can render decent pictures of their listings. There really is no excuse for bad photos and when you take a ton of photos of the subject property, you can weed out the bad ones when you upload to the MLS. You don't have to upload the bad pictures just because you've taken them.
Now for the fun part, I'm showing off my work below from the class this weekend. (Remember I'm a DSLR beginner;-).
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