Tips for Creating a Real Estate Photography Portfolio
Lesson 57 from: Real Estate PhotographyPhilip Ebiner
Tips for Creating a Real Estate Photography Portfolio
Lesson 57 from: Real Estate PhotographyPhilip Ebiner
Lesson Info
57. Tips for Creating a Real Estate Photography Portfolio
Lessons
Introduction to Real Estate Photography
1Welcome to Class! What Will You Learn? Who is this Course For?
03:48Real Estate Photography Basics
2What Gear Do You Need as a Real Estate Photographer?
09:36 3Camera Settings & Modes to Use for Real Estate Photography
07:54 4Can You Use a Smartphone for Real Estate Photography? Pros & Cons
03:13 5How to Compose Real Estate Photos - The Basics
04:58 6Lighting Basics for Real Estate Photography
07:43The Window Pull: How to Make the Exteriors Pop
02:01 8RAW vs. JPEG Photos - Which Should You Shoot?
00:51 9Key Lesson: What Photos Do You Need to Capture?
15:04How to Take a Real Estate Photo
10Basic Room Photo Demonstration with Flambient Technique, Natural, and Flash
10:54Real Estate Photography Demonstration I - Full House Demo
11Introduction to this Demo
00:54 12What Equipment is in my Real Estate Photography Kit?
02:58 13Walkthrough of the House - Let's See What We're Working With
07:20 14The Kitchen - Part 1
12:08 15The Kitchen - Part 2
04:20 16The Kitchen - Part 3
03:16 17The Kitchen - Part 4
02:41 18The Kitchen - Part 5
02:34 19The Primary Bathroom
09:48 20The Primary Bedroom
07:15 21The Laundry Room
06:03 22The Living Room
10:28 23A Small Space Bathroom
05:19Real Estate Photography Demonstration II - Full House Demo
24Introduction to this Demo
05:00 25The Living Room
07:48 26The Kitchen
06:35 27Bathroom 1
06:12 28The Primary Bedroom
07:20 29Bathroom 2
05:46 30Front Exterior
03:19 31Back Yard & Exteriors
06:09Editing Real Estate Photos
32Introduction & Basic Editing Process for Real Estate Photography
04:31Adobe Lightroom for Real Estate Photography - The Basics
33Adobe Lightroom Introduction for Real Estate Photographers
06:36 34Organizing Photos for Efficient Editing in Lightroom
07:12 35Basic Editing Process in Lightroom for Real Estate Photographers
21:12 36Combining Bracketed Photos in Lightroom + a Comparison of RAW vs Bracketed Photo
04:43 37Natural Light Kitchen Edit
04:06 38Exporting Photos from Lightroom
06:23Photo Editing Skills You Should Know
39Copy and Paste Settings from One Photo to Another in Lightroom
02:58 40Create & Use Presets in Lightroom
02:26 41Sky Replacements in Photoshop
06:50Flambient Editing Process
42Step-by-Step Flambient Editing Process
20:56Full Editing Demonstrations
43Editing the Kitchen Dining Nook
18:48 44Editing the Primary Bedroom 1
12:04 45Editing the Primary Bedroom 2 + Removing Objects in a Photo
17:04 46Editing an Exterior Photo with Sky Replacement
06:36 47Editing a Kitchen Photo with a Natural Designer Style Look
05:30 48Quick Bathroom Edit
05:13Advanced Editing Tips & Tricks
49Speed Up Your Flambient Workflow with Photoshop Actions
05:18 50Replacing Photos, Wall Art, and TV Images in Photoshop
05:04 51Darken TVs in Lightroom
01:11 52Clean Up Smudges on Stainless Steel Appliances in Lightroom
02:03 53Editing iPhone photos vs. Professional Camera Photos
04:41Virtual Staging
54What is Virtual Staging? What Tools Should I Use?
02:14 55Virtual Staging in Photoshop with Generative AI Features
10:56The Business of Real Estate Photography
56How to Deliver Photo Files to Clients
03:50 57Tips for Creating a Real Estate Photography Portfolio
03:50 58Creating a Quick Portfolio Website with Adobe Portfolio
06:01 59How to Find Your First Clients
04:06 60How Much to Charge for Real Estate Photography Services
02:32Aerial Photography
61The Basics of Drone / Aerial Photography for Real Estate Photography
06:27Conclusion
62Conclusion
01:23Lesson Info
Tips for Creating a Real Estate Photography Portfolio
In this lesson, we'll cover building an online portfolio, some tips for choosing the right photos as well as platforms that I recommend. I already mentioned a few platform options. The other one I wanted to include in this list is Wix Wix dot com is super easy drag and drop and it's free to get started. You can't get your own domain name URL for free and there will be small Wix ads on your website. But it's a great way to just start building out a website. And if you want to eventually pay for the upgrade to remove those ads, get your own URL, you can do that. And so it's free to get started. Squarespace is also to use drag and drop templates, but it does cost more than these other options I found. And then wordpress. Wordpress is for more advanced users. I have a full wordpress course. There's lots of tutorials out there online on wordpress, but it does take a little bit of tech knowledge to figure out how to up, get, get it up and running. I want to talk about Adobe portfolio because...
it's a free way to get started and I'm gonna do a quick demo of how it works. But before I do that, I just want to talk briefly about how to build out a portfolio. And in general, my philosophy is less, is more, you don't need to show every single photo that you've taken of a house on your main portfolio. Think about what is a client coming to your portfolio to see they're seeing. Can you take beautiful photos? Can you take a variety of beautiful photos and then they want to contact you? So that's pretty much all you want to have on a website or portfolio. And if you are really serious about real estate photography, you don't want to mix this up with other styles of photography. If you do wedding photography, wildlife photography, don't mix and match those photos with your real estate photography in your portfolio. There are times where having a website with dedicated spaces for each type of professional work you do can work. But if you're really trying to launch a real estate photography business, make your website dedicated to that. Then the next question you might have for me is what about using something like Instagram or another social media platform to put out your photos and to create your portfolio. Instagram is a great place to put out photos. But as we've seen over the past 10 plus years, the priority of it as a photo sharing platform and a space for photographers has decreased and while you can use it to find clients, I understand that people are still on Instagram and all the other social media platforms. I don't think it's the best place to build out your portfolio. You just don't have control over it. And there's so much limitation in the sizing of images, the visibility of images and even like adding links and information, it's just less than you can do on your own website. So I highly recommend having a website separate than your social media accounts do both. But focus and prioritize on building out your own website first because if you have you want to get clients, yeah, you could send people or show people your Instagram account. Maybe people will find you through someone referring you and sharing your page. But at the end of the day, having a website with a clean portfolio that's not competing with the thousands of other things. The algorithm is trying to press out to people. It's gonna work a lot better. So let's jump into Adobe portfolio and I'll show you how easy it is to use.
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Ratings and Reviews
Chris
The course is a comprehensive learning experience and Philip's passion and expertise in photography and teaching are evident throughout the course. Key highlights for me included mastering lighting techniques, photo blending for high-quality interiors, and advanced strategies like the 'Flambient' process. This was straight forward, and easy to understand. I live in Australia an grateful that you kept the information relevant to any country.
TONY BARNES JR
Hey Philip, Just want to thank you for putting in the time and effort putting this course together. I’ve been shooting for 20 years but never really spent enough time on PS. This course really focuses on what you really need to know. Everything is really straight to the point. Philip provides images so you can follow along and really get a good work flow going. I personally enjoyed the
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Overall, the completeness and depth of this course are excellent. The only thing that needs improvement is during the editing portion. Philip's voice was fading in and out even when the volume on my computer was set at 100%. His voice was excellent during the photo shoot portion of the course.