These are the primary important techniques for your real estate video to have consistency not just for your listings, but to be compliant in a real estateimaging world that is becoming dominated by professional photography and video companies.

Vladimir
St. Louis Photographers

Great pic of the Chicago condo. I wonder how many exposures were taken for the fluid foreground/background lighting balance.

I don’t think most St. Louis realtors or St. Louis photographers are at this level. I can’t wait for the amateur to try their hand at real estate video. There will be a lot of material for that wall of shame!

- Vladimir

Video is best suited to show motion. Putting a video camera on a tripod and panning a living room can be accomplished more easily with more controllable results in the computer vs. on the camera for reasons set forth below. Houses don’t move, furniture doesn’t move, and so on. Yes video can capture the trees blowing. Is that what’s going to move and motivate a buyer to call the listing agent?

Since marketing the property is what the purpose is here, let’s take your issues a bit further. Let’s be honest, for most agents, amateur video, whether it’s with a flip cam, iPhone, or digital video camera doesn’t result in representing the property in its best light. Editing full motion video for proper contrast, exposure, white balance, etc., is very difficult to do. I’ve seen tons of videos by agents and they can be very difficult to watch. Often there’s no editing, the commentary is lame, and the exposures are awful. However, cleaning up a photo is usually a one-button affair that most consumer photo tools (iPhoto, Picassa, etc.) have built in. So the non-professional agent can more easily present their listing in a more professional way using photography than full motion video, in a more cost effective way.

Finally, you’re comment about watching a slide show with pictures buyers have just seen is fair. That is unless the buyer is using YouTube or other video-centric sites, in which case there are no photos to view.

If you’ve got the skills to master video capture and technology, go for it. There are plenty of places to promote that video online. If not, we’re here to help agents market their property using photographs in a very efficient way, from both a time and cost perspective.

Yet, realtors and vendors like PropertyPreviews have people hoodwinked into thinking these photo slideshows are video! Buyers don’t think so - they’re ANNOYED at having to look at the SAME PHOTOS they just looked at - being repackaged as something more.

Stunning photos help sell property & now there is no reason not to have HDR !

— Karl Lingenfelder
http://www.viewr.com

Your simple example really shows the best way to take a photo of a home with an attached garage. Without question it’s a better shot.

Thanks for the tip.

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It sounds like you are making significant progress. Congratulations!

All the best,

James