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By Kenneth Thompson


You are going to have to post some great pictures of the house you have for sale if you want to get top dollar for it. The better those photographs are, the better the chances you'll be contacted by prospective buyers wanting to tour the home. To get those pictures, if you decide to do the job yourself, you'll need good equipment, a home that is spotless inside and out, pictures that interest potential purchasers, and strategies for creating real estate photography FL pros use all the time.

If you want your photos to stand out from your competition, you should use HDR photography and a wide angle lens. You would assume that wide angle lens give a wider shot, but you may not know they also give pictures more details and depth. HDR photographs are those taken of subjects multiple times using several different exposures. The photos are then combined into one with colors and detail you won't get without using this technique.

Natural lighting will show your house better than anything else. Professional flash equipment is not necessary to get great pictures in natural light, but a tripod is. You're going to get dark, blurred pictures if you try to do this without it. Using a tripod allows you to slow your shutter speed, giving you the natural light you envisioned and a crisp image.

Pictures of interiors are much better when the rooms are furnished. Taking pictures of empty rooms don't give buyers a real sense of the scale of the room or what is might be used for. All they see are floors, walls, and ceilings.

With furnishings in the rooms buyers can get a feel for how big the rooms are and what they are being used for. Furniture also adds shadow and light to your image. Over furnishing is a mistake though. All you need are the basics. Anything else is a distraction.

Virtual tours are something buyers want to see. 3-D virtual tours are especially popular. This is the most effective way for potential purchasers to get an idea of what your home looks like without actually scheduling a personal walk through. You should definitely make use of social media. Posting your virtual tour on different social media is a great way to get free advertising and expose your home to a wide variety of potential buyers.

Not everyone realizes how important the difference between vertical and horizontal pictures are. The human eye does notice the difference though. Humans are more comfortable viewing things at a four to three, or sixteen to nine, ratio. That means that horizontal pictures are easier for the human eye to process. Remember this the next time you use your cell phone to take a photo.

The focus of your pictures should be on the selling points. If your house is full of windows, coffered ceilings, and has an open floor plan for instance, that's what you want to emphasize in the photos. Features like a state of the art kitchen and inground pool will get your phone ringing.




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