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Can You Use a Smartphone for Real Estate Photography? Pros & Cons

Lesson 4 from: Real Estate Photography

Philip Ebiner

Can You Use a Smartphone for Real Estate Photography? Pros & Cons

Lesson 4 from: Real Estate Photography

Philip Ebiner

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Lesson Info

4. Can You Use a Smartphone for Real Estate Photography? Pros & Cons

Lessons

Class Trailer

Introduction to Real Estate Photography

1

Welcome to Class! What Will You Learn? Who is this Course For?

03:48

Real Estate Photography Basics

2

What Gear Do You Need as a Real Estate Photographer?

09:36
3

Camera Settings & Modes to Use for Real Estate Photography

07:54
4

Can You Use a Smartphone for Real Estate Photography? Pros & Cons

03:13
5

How to Compose Real Estate Photos - The Basics

04:58
6

Lighting Basics for Real Estate Photography

07:43
7

The Window Pull: How to Make the Exteriors Pop

02:01
8

RAW vs. JPEG Photos - Which Should You Shoot?

00:51
9

Key Lesson: What Photos Do You Need to Capture?

15:04

How to Take a Real Estate Photo

10

Basic Room Photo Demonstration with Flambient Technique, Natural, and Flash

10:54

Real Estate Photography Demonstration I - Full House Demo

11

Introduction to this Demo

00:54
12

What Equipment is in my Real Estate Photography Kit?

02:58
13

Walkthrough of the House - Let's See What We're Working With

07:20
14

The Kitchen - Part 1

12:08
15

The Kitchen - Part 2

04:20
16

The Kitchen - Part 3

03:16
17

The Kitchen - Part 4

02:41
18

The Kitchen - Part 5

02:34
19

The Primary Bathroom

09:48
20

The Primary Bedroom

07:15
21

The Laundry Room

06:03
22

The Living Room

10:28
23

A Small Space Bathroom

05:19

Real Estate Photography Demonstration II - Full House Demo

24

Introduction to this Demo

05:00
25

The Living Room

07:48
26

The Kitchen

06:35
27

Bathroom 1

06:12
28

The Primary Bedroom

07:20
29

Bathroom 2

05:46
30

Front Exterior

03:19
31

Back Yard & Exteriors

06:09

Editing Real Estate Photos

32

Introduction & Basic Editing Process for Real Estate Photography

04:31

Adobe Lightroom for Real Estate Photography - The Basics

33

Adobe Lightroom Introduction for Real Estate Photographers

06:36
34

Organizing Photos for Efficient Editing in Lightroom

07:12
35

Basic Editing Process in Lightroom for Real Estate Photographers

21:12
36

Combining Bracketed Photos in Lightroom + a Comparison of RAW vs Bracketed Photo

04:43
37

Natural Light Kitchen Edit

04:06
38

Exporting Photos from Lightroom

06:23

Photo Editing Skills You Should Know

39

Copy and Paste Settings from One Photo to Another in Lightroom

02:58
40

Create & Use Presets in Lightroom

02:26
41

Sky Replacements in Photoshop

06:50

Flambient Editing Process

42

Step-by-Step Flambient Editing Process

20:56

Full Editing Demonstrations

43

Editing the Kitchen Dining Nook

18:48
44

Editing the Primary Bedroom 1

12:04
45

Editing the Primary Bedroom 2 + Removing Objects in a Photo

17:04
46

Editing an Exterior Photo with Sky Replacement

06:36
47

Editing a Kitchen Photo with a Natural Designer Style Look

05:30
48

Quick Bathroom Edit

05:13

Advanced Editing Tips & Tricks

49

Speed Up Your Flambient Workflow with Photoshop Actions

05:18
50

Replacing Photos, Wall Art, and TV Images in Photoshop

05:04
51

Darken TVs in Lightroom

01:11
52

Clean Up Smudges on Stainless Steel Appliances in Lightroom

02:03
53

Editing iPhone photos vs. Professional Camera Photos

04:41

Virtual Staging

54

What is Virtual Staging? What Tools Should I Use?

02:14
55

Virtual Staging in Photoshop with Generative AI Features

10:56

The Business of Real Estate Photography

56

How to Deliver Photo Files to Clients

03:50
57

Tips for Creating a Real Estate Photography Portfolio

03:50
58

Creating a Quick Portfolio Website with Adobe Portfolio

06:01
59

How to Find Your First Clients

04:06
60

How Much to Charge for Real Estate Photography Services

02:32

Aerial Photography

61

The Basics of Drone / Aerial Photography for Real Estate Photography

06:27

Conclusion

62

Conclusion

01:23

Lesson Info

Can You Use a Smartphone for Real Estate Photography? Pros & Cons

In this lesson, I want to talk about using a smartphone and go a little bit deeper for those interested in using one. You might want to skip this if you're not using a smartphone. This is really for those real estate agents taking this class landlords, short term rental hosts who don't want to invest in a lot of equipment. I'll talk about the benefits and drawbacks of using a smartphone. So first off benefits, the quality is getting better on smartphones and certain smartphones, the quality of an image kind of matches what a basic Ds LR, mirrorless professional camera can do. It's more affordable because you probably have a smartphone in your pocket. It's easy to think. Oh, I'm just gonna whip this out and take great photos and sometimes you can and it's simple to use. There's no complicated settings or things that you'll need to know. It's basically just being able to set up in an area, compose it the right way and take the photo, just click the button to take the photo. The problem i...

s that most smartphones don't capture raw photos as good as basic Ds LR or mirrorless cameras. And so what this means is that you don't have a lot of room editing and you don't necessarily need to edit all your photos too much to look good. But in terms of things like combining images and things like that and the photos will just look better if you edit them and not having nice high quality raw photos from a smartphone limits your ability to edit them the right way. The other issue is when we're getting a little bit more professional, using just flash alone, syncing up a flash to a smartphone is very difficult. There's not really great tools to do that right now. So you can't just use the flash that's on your smartphone to get enough lighting. Potentially, you could use continuous video lights to light a scene, light a room and use a smartphone to make it look good. But when we're talking about more advanced techniques using a a flash or a strobe where we're bouncing it off the ceiling, we're maybe taking multiple images where we're bouncing it off different parts of the room that Flam Bent style, then it's going to be practically impossible with a smartphone also just like setting up on a tripod, not impossible but more difficult using a trigger self timer bracketing. All of these things are going to be more difficult with a smartphone. That being said, you can certainly take great photos with a smartphone. But as a professional photographer, you'll want professional gear, truly even though you as a photographer might be able to take a great photo with a smartphone, you don't want to show up to a professional photo shoot at a house, taking photos with a smartphone, nothing against smartphones, smartphone, photographers. It's just not going to look good. Even if you promise, oh, I'm gonna take photos just as good with this camera. You'll want to actually have professional gear as a professional. So in this class, I will do some tests to show you the, the smartphone versus the professional camera and how they end up looking. Um But I just wanted to share these thoughts before we move forward.

Class Materials

Bonus Downloads

Practice_Photos_for_Editing.zip
Step-by-Step_Flambient_Editing_Process.pdf

Ratings and Reviews

Michael A. Gruich Jr.
 

Purchased last week to help get my skills up, I have taken a handfull of property photos already and the clients loved them. I wanted to understand the process and standards used with most properties in order to improve my work and this course DELIVERED ! Grat value for investing in yourself and future clients . Philip goes into detail telling you setting, how to take the photo and why , also goes into editing with a few trick to help deliver amazing results.

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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