Create Your Real Estate Photography Invoice Template for Product Quality

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what's up guys today we're going to be taking photos of a three-story home here in the houston area and i figured i'd bring you guys along and show you uh basically some basics and real estate photography and how to get started so let's check out the place and then get set up and get going [Music] so fun fact about this shoot this is my first official shoot as a freelancer for real estate related stuff so pretty cool so we're basically just going to be using one camera one lens and one accessory to get most of these photos so now let's set it up camera we're going to be using a canon 5d mark iv and for the lens we're going to be using a 16 to 35 specifically canon 1635 f4 is and then the last two accessories actually is going to be a polarizing filter because we have wood floors here and i'll explain what that does in a tripod [Music] [Applause] so a polarizer filter is kind of an essential for real estate photography because whenever you have wood floors you get a whole bunch of reflections coming in from the windows and this basically cuts them out which is you know really really helpful making the floor look sleek and clean versus like really blown out highlights that are like bouncing off the floor so that's what the polarizer does fun fact this is my first ever tripod that i ever bought when i started photography this thing has been with me for like five years now has some missing parts and kinks and starting to wear and tear but still works just that was a fun fact and for real estate video i use the dji ronin s but i already made a video on that and we're focusing on photography today but i'll link that video up here okay so basically now we're set up ready to go so let's start at the bottom and work our way up and take some photos [Music] so here we have the living room it's really nice also this home if you haven't noticed is vacant there's no furniture in it so basically we're just showing the space and how big the rooms are what the features are and so let me show you how i set up a shop for something like this [Music] okay so i just got my camera set up right here in the corner basically you can see this whole scene really nicely basically from there to that corner and to give you an idea this is kind of where my camera is leveled at basically i think chest level is always like a really good you know really good spot to have your camera height wise you don't want it too high where all you see is ceiling and you don't want it too low because then you're just gonna get a bunch of floor especially on a wide angle lens right here we're at 16 millimeters so distortion can become pretty crazy so make sure to find that sweet spot for the height so this is basically the image that we see on here okay so i basically just set up this scene now we're back to the kitchen area so here we have the camera set up this is the scene that we're looking at basically i want to get a shot covering from there all the way over there showing this big open area how it shows the kitchen and breakfast dining or whatever so now let me break down the settings we are using iso 100 to get the cleanest image followed by the f-stop at 6.3 and my shutter depending on lighting which is at a fifth of a second right now another tip is to use your timer your two second timer so you don't get any motion blur when you press the shutter button like this that way whenever you press the button you're not going to accidentally get some shake which is possible because it's really slow shutters even if you're on a tripod [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay so now we're back to the kitchen and here i'm gonna give you tip number three and that is using this little feature right here the in-camera leveler let me explain basically you wanna avoid having any skewed photos basically your camera looking up or looking down especially because we're dealing with a lot of vertical lines they look really distorted if your camera is not 100 level which is known as keystoning so basically if you simply enable your grids and your in-camera leveler in your camera you can avoid that completely to make sure that your shot is 100 level and accurate it's just really pleasing and it looks really professional so you can see here mine is just perfectly leveled and it says it's a little off on the up and down but if i even do this i just barely move it down it's pretty much level as good as it can get on this tripod and the little bit that i need to correct if any can be done in editing [Music] so basically there's two types of shots that i do for real estate photography and that's basically corners and head-on shots so the one that i just did explaining you know the leveler is a corner shot basically the camera is looking from corner to corner of the room capturing the whole scene my second favorite shot is just a head-on shot which is the one that i'm doing right here basically we're looking into the room head-on and just kind of shows the room uh kind of different and you know i really like that view because it looks really long and especially if it's like a vertical oriented room like this kitchen is it works out really well [Music] okay so here we are in our last scene which is basically the primary bathroom and the shot looks really really awesome i love when the lines just line up perfectly and so my favorite things about this but you've probably noticed throughout me explaining this shoot that you hear three photos going off whenever i click the shutter and basically what i'm doing is auto exposure bracketing i almost forgot what it was which is basically hdr and let me explain why basically the whole point of auto exposure bracketing or taking multiple exposures is to make sure you get the maximum dynamic range so here looking at the histogram it's pretty balanced and luckily it's a cloudy day so you know there's not so much harsh sunlight coming in but basically the whole point of that is to retain as much detail as possible because this would probably blown out versus this would probably be underexposed so you take three different exposures basically one exposing for your shadows one exposing for your midtones and then one for your highlights to get the maximum dynamic range out of your shot so now let's do it so on canon you're gonna go to menu number two exposure compensation auto exposure bracketing setting and i just do two stops so there we go looks good two second timer [Music] and here's our three images one that's really overexposed for the shadows one that's underexposed for the highlights and then one for the midtones which is like your balanced image so once you take your three images for all your scenes and you get back into editing all you have to do is merge them into an hdr file i use lightroom you can do this in photoshop but once you do that it's really simple and then you have a lot more dynamic range to maximize basically the best quality image [Music] well that pretty much wraps up this video leave a like if you enjoyed comment down your thoughts i'd love to hear some other real estate photography tips you might have and subscribe if you haven't already i would love for you guys to be part of my channel and i'll see you guys in the next video time to sweep this house with some video