Real Estate Photography: Just shot and edited my first three houses this weekend. Looking for some feedback!

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• Just shot and edited my first three houses this weekend. Looking for some feedback!
• Where do you get the music for your videos?
• Newbie here looking for some CC :D

Just shot and edited my first three houses this weekend. Looking for some feedback! Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:40 PM PDT You may recognize me from my post a few weeks ago asking for advice on if I should get a bunch of speedlights or one AD200 and one speedlight. Well, you guys got to me. I caved. I went way over budget and got myself an AD600, thanks guys! So here's all my gear: Nikon d5300 Nikkor 10-20mm Manfroto 290 (Not great, but getting by) Flashpoint TT600 Flashpoint Xplor 600 13' air-cushioned light stand for the Xplor 600 I bought a Flashpoint X1T-N but it didn't come in time, so I had to use a horrible chain of optical S1 and S2 slaves, and it was a mess. Took me way longer than I wanted to shoot because of that, but it came in now, so hopefully that problem is behind me. Anyways, here's the photos themselves: House #1 House #2 House #3 The black boxes on signs outside are not in the delivered images, I just did it for this Reddit post to protect the builder and realtor's identity. Also, House #1 has totally retinted grass. It was very dead and yellow and they asked me to make it green for them since it'll be back to green soon. How'd I do? Sorry they aren't staged! I wish they were, but they're for a builder so they don't stage them. But anyways here's a bit of my own self-feedback is as follows: I need to do a better job at keeping consistent color temp between photos, especially in the same room. There were some places where I should have taken another photo from another angle. I know looking back I should have done that in one of the master bedrooms and bathrooms, but I was also really pressed for time at the end. There are some photos that came out kinda bad. To go through them myself, this one had a horribly out of focus flash shot, so it had to be all ambient. This was my first composite flash and I didn't do a good job with it, so I had to put in too much ambient and it caused hazy lights. The same exact thing happened here but I love the composition in this one. Lastly, I couldn't keep focus throughout this whole photo. Things that I need help with and could use tips on: FOCUS! I was mostly using around f7.1-f9 inside and f11 outside. I had to completely scrap some shots because focus was not there. I see photos where the whole large room and rooms in the background are pin-sharp. How do you guys do it? Speed. I was going really slow. Like I said, this was in part because of the optical slave bullshit I was dealing with, but editing was taking FOREVER too. I probably was taking about 2-3 hours per house while even using fast-flambient most of the time. Will this just get faster with more practice? Keeping the shots level and lines straight. I think I did a really good in these with that for the most part, but now that I have my flash trigger, I noticed that my bubble level is useless because the trigger's hotshoe is not level at all. What's the best way to get level without being able to use an in-camera level (mine doesn't have one) or a bubble level? My tripod doesn't have one built-in, unfortunately. So yeah, that's my wall of text. To anyone who reads this and provides feedback thanks a bunch! I showed the photos to the builder that I shot them for, one of his employees who is kinda into photography himself, and a realtor. They were all blown away and the realtor said they were better than what he pays $200 a house for (here's one of the photos from his photographer at House #2). They all could very well just be making me feel good about myself, so be honest and put me back in my place about how they're horrible and a ton of work. Thanks in advance guys! PS: If any of you guys have overall tips on how to do this part-time, I'd love to hear it. I have a decently paying full-time engineering job, but I want to start doing this on the side more and make some money in the afternoons and weekends. I know some people say that part-time REP can't be done, but I've also seen plenty of people online and IRL that make it work. submitted by /u/AndIHaveMilesToGo [link] [comments]

Where do you get the music for your videos? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 01:14 PM PDT I'm looking for a good royalty free website for better music. submitted by /u/iamkylersmith [link] [comments]

Newbie here looking for some CC :D Posted: 26 Jun 2020 05:46 PM PDT I'm new to this side of photography, but just from horsing around in the house during lock down, I've found it very enjoyable! I think I've watched every Rich Baum and Nathan Cool video they've ever made so far lol so I've been studying and practicing. From reading forums, Facebook comments, and looking at other RE Photographers in my area, they all seem to be using the bracketed method over the flambient method? So I figured I would try and learn that. I took one photo today of our family room using a 2.0 Ev 3 image bracket and 1 single flash shot. The flash shot used a Flashpoint 300 Pro and Godox V860ii Speedlight. I used a Samyang 18mm lens on a Sony A7iii. I consolidated the bracketed photos in Lightroom into one HDR photo, exported both the HDR and Flash shot into Photoshop, and blended them together, using what I learned from the flambient method. Here is the end result (Don't mind the mess!!!!!): [Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/JrC0ge4.jpg) I've seen so many high quality photo's including the Reddit post before mine. Which, makes me feel like mine is below OK at best and not at a level someone looking to go into business should be at. Which is to be expected being new. Our walls are two shades of orange and the flooring is yellow/orange too, so if the photo looks orange, that is probably why. I have tried to desaturate a little, without affecting the integrity of the photo but, yea. From everything I've seen, everyone always has such clear and clean images with pure white ceilings, where mine doesn't look that way at all. Is that lens quality? User error? Both? I assume the shadows on the ceilings is because of the beams blocking light transfer? Do I need to move the flashes around to take multiple shots to compensate and blend them all together? Feel free to pick this apart and let me know what I did wrong, as I'm sure there is a-lot lol. I appreciate the feedback as it's the only way I'm going to learn. Thanks in advanced! submitted by /u/Shamwedge [link] [comments]

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