Concepts: Real Estate Photography, Home Photos, Selling and Renting Property

Live Samples of MLS photos
Photos Courtesy of Brokerages Noted

Welcome to the Home Photography Tutorial. On these pages, professional photographer Margaret Hokkanen will help jump your photography to the next level. Whether you are a home owner with a property for sale by owner, a landlord trying to get a property rented on Craigslist, or a real estate agent looking to better represent a client, these pages will help you improve the photographs that you take of your property.

So, let's get started. Let's begin by looking at two photographs - an original picture taken with a point-and-shoot style camera and then a photograph that I took with some better equipment and retouched.

Point and shoot image with small field of view.

Encinitas Real Estate Photo
The same photo at the next level.

The first of the two pictures isn't so bad; it is properly exposed for the interior light, and it is probably as good as or better than many of the MLS photo samples to the right. However, the bottom photograph is really shows the size of the room, the open floor plan, and the wonderful light without having blown-out windows. These are the kinds of quality photos that really help sell properties, and, with a little effort, you can take pictures like this. (Note: This photograph had to be reduced in size significantly to make it fit on this web page; the actual photograph can be printed on a two-foot piece of paper with no image loss.)

We hope you enjoy these pages, and that you learn a lot. If at any point you want to post a remark or question, feel free to do so.

Margaret
(760) 942-4242

Margaret Hokkanen
(760) 942-4242 Team.At.SurfTheTurf.com
Residential Real Estate Services
Representing Both Home Buyers and Home Sellers

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