EndlessH2O wrote:
Too bad I'm not going to be visiting my MIL over in San Lorenzo, otherwise I would come out to Ruidoso to shoot it for you.
In regards to what fartleker said about utilizing a real estate photographer, hire a pro like me. That 95% online first look is no joke - there is a term "sticky finger" which refers to a persons finger sticks on their mobile device before they swipe because it either looks good or it looks bad. In the your housing market because of the days on market, you want the former. The only way you can get that are through good staging (de-clutter, swapping blinds or drapes if need be, new pillows, sometimes a fresh
white or
grey coat of paint
) and good angles. By good angles, I mean not super wide (17mm on full frame works fine), eye level probably about 5'5' (ditch those angled top-down shots), and leading eye shots that would bring you into a room but not be blocked by a sofa or other furniture. Don't worry so much about lighting (all lights must be on for real estate photos!), because I would end up blending images (not that HDR crap) to match the interior lighting plus what I add from strobes to ambient lighting from the outdoors. It is possible to evenly light interiors like cabins with dark wood - I had a log cabin a week ago with the same situation, where I had to blend my images so as not to lose the detail in the wood or have the windows with no detail.
On the subject of angles, get rid of the first shot of the house and try to find a more appealing angle. This might be difficult as you are on a hillside (try not to do the "looking up at it" shot). If you can't find one, try using a front door shot. I'm not so sure an aerial will work in your case either, because you may have too many trees. Until you find a pro, clean up those images in Lightroom or Photoshop by using the lens correction in order to straighten out all of your angles (nothing should be looking like it falling towards or away from you).
If you have any other questions, pm me.
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We are selling our primary residence in CA. I'm already working 20+ days in new location (MI....where the sun simply does not shine 4 months of the year). Wife & kids are moving into another house for the next 4-6 months as "houses won't sell if it looks like somebody else's home".
Then again the listed house screams '70s, those that would actually but an octagonal house on a slope are about .00001% of the population, and it looks like the type of place Ted Kacynski had in Montana.
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