Photographing Real Estate Properties for sales by Canberra Photographer
Chris Canham part 1 of 2
Real Estate Photography in the ACT is a lot like many other styles of shooting where the best times to photo a property (depending on which way the sun is rising or falling) at Dusk or at Dawn,
The obvious preference is Dusk (as there are not too many photographers committed enough to get up early to do the dawn shoots) or let me slightly rephrase that—there is not really enough money in Real Estate Photography in the ACT that would substantiate getting out of bed so early to photograph a property, So the tail end of the day is in most cases the go.
When photographing Real Estate as In when shooting Architecture, what you are trying to do is match the “ambient” or “available” Light that is emitted by the building with the Natural Light in the Sky.
There is usually a 3-5 minute window of opportunity when this takes place that you will have time leading up to the dusk shoot where you can set a few options and then get the money shots when the light is just right.
Tip— Get the vendor of the property to turn on all the interior and external lights for your shot and open all the curtains/blinds so that you will get the absolute limit of light that is being emitted by the building.
Camera to Camera I shoot predominately with a Nikon D3S which can pull off fabulous handheld work at higher ISO ratings but more often I set to a tripod and stop down the ISO and shutter speed while keeping the F stop at around 8-11 for Maximum Depth of field ( this idea that Digital technology generally maxes out with DSLRs at the aforementioned F stop setting) is a fairly popular one amongst Photographers worldwide I have come to understand through my own photography and research but note this was not always the case, where shooting with Transparency film for instance pre the Digital age the idea was that the higher the F stop ie F 22 or thereabouts was always the way to achieve max depth of field. This is the end of Part 1 of 2 please look for part 2 once I have written it.
Chris Canham is a Canberra Photographer who takes amazing children’s portraits. Check out his new section on Portrait Photography Canberra and Event Photography Canberra. Find him on Google places at: Chris Canham Canberra Photographer.
