When I photograph a home, I merge several shots into one final image. This is known as HDR. For each view I always shoot 5 images, 1-stop apart with OCF (Off Camera Flash) when a window is present, 3, 1-stop apart when a window is not. I shoot 5 when a window is present to get the right exposure for the outdoors. I don’t want an over saturated dark outdoors, nor do I want an overexposed, too bright outdoors….
Real estate buyers put huge importance on the kitchen, living room, curb appeal, master bedrooms, backyard, and master bathrooms, pretty much in that order. This was determined in an eye-tracking study conducted Michael J. Seiler, Professor and Robert M. Stanton Chair of Real Estate, Old Dominion University, Poornima Madhavan, Old Dominion University, Department of Psychology and Molly Liechty, Old Dominion University,Department of Psychology. The study was published June 2011 and goes into quite a bit of detail about what…