In this informal, on‑site tutorial the host (Speaker A) and cameraman Mike walk through a full real‑estate shoot, showing how photographers can earn extra income by offering property photography services. The video covers pre‑shoot staging (removing small clutter, opening windows for natural light), equipment choices (16 mm f/4 Sony lens, CPL/ND polarizer, tripod), camera settings (continuous bracket mode for HDR, f‑stop wide open, ISO management, shutter speed, exposure meter), composition techniques (making rooms appear larger, keeping lines level, avoiding door frames), specific approaches for kitchens, bathrooms (vertical orientation, ball‑joint tripod), and exteriors (wide‑angle to capture whole house despite obstacles). The host demonstrates exposure bracketing to capture three properly exposed frames for HDR merging, emphasizes levelness and straight lines, and mentions post‑processing in Lightroom. The video ends with a local shout‑out to West Texas, a promotional offer for a free photo shoot, and a thank‑you to Mike.
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What is up, you guys? Got Mike on the camera today. We're taking some real estate shots, photography. We wanted to bring you along because listen here, there's always homes that are being sold, and if you're a photographer, this is a good, good way to make some extra money. So the first thing you need to do is turn on the dang lights, okay? Boom! Man, it is hot outside today, boys and girls. Alright, so we have this lovely kitchen that was just remodeled. So you're gonna want to look for these kinds of things. Little screws, little pieces of plastic. Make sure they're not in the picture unless you want to edit it out in post. Put her down there. Make sure all of your windows are open. Just let some natural light in. What's happening? Oh my god. Dead bodies. Alright, this refrigerator is a little crooked. I was distracted by the realtor and moved stuff around. So always get permission. All right, come over here, Mike. All right, so today we're shooting on— my tripod's falling apart, hold on. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Wow, really get that good shot. It's kind of actually difficult. All right, boys and girls, come over here, Mike, show them the camera. So what you're going to do, we're shooting with a 16mm f/4.0. Sony lens. On the front here you have a CPL ND filter. In other words, it's a polarizer filter to get rid of reflections on the ground, reflections on the cabinets, etc., coming in from outside. So come over here, come over here on this side. Now we're lining up for the shot. You want to make the room look as big as possible. So how do you do that? First, you can't see anything, so we got to expose correctly. Okay, so how do we do that? First of all, you're going to go into your drive mode. You're going to find this drive mode continuous bracket, and it's going to go to 3 different exposure levels, 3 different pictures. So we're going to click that. That's how you get the HDR photos. Okay, next thing, you're going to make sure your f-stop is all the way open. In this case, it's only f/4, so we're there. You can bring down shutter speed for pictures. You have to make sure and have a tripod that way if you need a low shutter speed, it won't look crazy. Make sure it's even, make sure it's level. So we're gonna kind of scoot in just to make it look a little bit bigger right here. Okay, so this little meter— come over here again, come over here again— this little meter here, that's your exposure level. So when it's at +0.0, it means You're exposed properly. So you can bump up your ISO if you need some more, you can leave it down. So that's it. Make sure it's level, make sure it's straight, look at your corners, look at your lines, make sure everything matches up how you want it to, and then all you're gonna do, click the button. It snaps 3 pictures that you can put together in post and form an HDR photo. So we're gonna go around to each room. We're gonna get a few different shots from each corner of that room. So this one, we'll get another one right here. And this one we're gonna kind of lower just to get a few of the cabinets. Pump it up with this a little bit. Alright, come on this side over here. We'll get a detail shot. Everybody loves some detail shots. Boom! Take a picture of the sink. And we're gonna turn right around. So come sit over here and get you a cameraman that knows what he's doing. Unlike Mike. I'm just kidding. Don't hate me. All right. So, and it can be kind of tricky sometimes because you're in small spaces, but you want to show— let's actually— you want to show the whole room. See, this is why people pay us the big bucks right here. Right here. This is exactly why. Okay, so once you're looking pretty even and it's not— this is kind of a harder example. Boom, you're just gonna hit go again. All the magic is done in post. As long as you set it up correctly, you'll be fine. So I'm gonna get one more picture of this microwave setup. Okay, now we move on to the bathroom. In A, I didn't know if you did it in G or A. I do it in G, I believe. In G. Okay. All right, so now we are moving on to the bathroom shot, ladies and gentlemen. This is where the crap hits the fan, if you know what I'm saying. All right, so for these shots, sometimes they're smaller, so you gotta rotate the camera to the vertical stance on the tripod. We have got a ball joint right here, and there's a slot on the side. You can just rotate it over. So if I want horizontal, let's just vertical, just like that. All right, so you want to make, again, the space look as big as you can. So look on the screen over here, Mike. So you don't want to get the door frame in the pictures. You want to make sure it's all even still. So we can go out of the door frame just a little bit. Right here you can see about 95% of the bathroom. So this 1.7, we're a little overexposed. Let's bring it down just a hair. So 1.6, right here. Boom. And that is That's how you do a bathroom shot, my friends. All right, now that we have bathrooms, let's get one shot outside. The bedrooms are the same thing. Hold on. Give me time. Now that we have the inside, let's go to the outside. Before we leave, I'm going to show you how to take a picture of the outside of the house. It ain't gonna be any house, 'cause that's being— So right here we have this massive tree in the way. So you can't go too far back, which is why we have wide-angle lenses. So I can set it here and I can see the whole house without seeing a tree. So let's go for it. Come over here. So these are the settings. As you can see from when we were inside, you can't see anything. So what are we going to do? Bring your ISO all the way down. A little bit better, but how do you get more exposed correctly? You can bring your shutter speed up. Since we're outside it's not going to matter as much, and we're also on a tripod. So make sure it's centered to the house. So in this one, we're gonna have to clip the edge of the tree, which is okay. You can still see the main, main parts of the house. So here we're exposed correctly. You'll hit that, boom, taking 3 pictures, perfectly exposed every single flipping time, ladies and gentlemen. So that's it. That's all real estate is. And I have a video showing you how to edit these on Lightroom if you want to go watch it. Shout out to Flights and Sights Media Silver Surfer Mobile. Listen, we are in the heart of West Texas, AKA Abilene, Texas, or the Big Country. And if you see us sporting around this Prius, give us a call, say, hey, we saw the Silver Surfer, and we will give you a free photo shoot of any kind. That's right, free photo shoot. Anyways, it's been good, it's been good. Thanks, Mike, for recording. Show yourself to the people, Mike. Oh, he's shy. Okay, it's okay. Well, we're gonna head back to the studio and we're gonna go edit these pictures. Hope you learned something today. Y'all have a good one. Peace. Alright.
