Real estate photography has become a pillar of creating the best real estate listings in order to garner attention.
Real estate agents selling properties online require people to be interested in their listings. These require the listings to have legitimate information laid out for potential buyers to be interested, but they also require pictures and videos that capture the best bits about the properties.
Find out about the best tips in order to create the best real estate photography for your real estate listings to garner attention and facilitate sales for your real estate business.
Tips for Capturing Great Property Photos
There are important things to remember when capturing real estate photos for your listing, and ensuring these can help capture the attention of people who are interested. Oftentimes your property might be the perfect find for someone, but without a proper display of the property itself through curated real estate photography, you may lose their interest.
Here are some ways to ensure you capture your property properly, and ensure higher chances of sales!
Ensuring Picture Stability
The good thing about properties is that unlike people taking pictures, they do not move. So, you can avoid any issues with taking pictures if you can ensure that you have something to control the stability of your camera, such as a tripod.
Find the right spot to get the best picture, place a tripod there, and you can ensure that you get a picture without any movement, capturing everything you need in it.
If you do not have a camera, then you can also use boxes or anything that can stand firmly upright without jostling much. However, since proper pictures can be so pivotal for your real estate listing, it is wise to get the best tool for the job.
Getting The Best Lighting
Finding the perfect spot itself is a task that requires some thought as well. For example, you can not get a good picture of yourself taken if you are standing in front of the Sun, rather away from it.
Lighting plays a pivotal role in getting the best pictures for your property, inside and outside. Let’s say you take a picture of the living area when there is light pouring inside the room, and the ambience is perfect for a warm Summer’s day to invite people in to think about their tranquil afternoons in the home; you need to capture that.
The perfect lighting can change someone’s state of mind, and that is the same essence you need to capture in your images.
Make sure to experiment before you decide on the perfect choice for your image, and you will be able to come to the conclusion of which you think best suits your needs.
Images from Multiple Angles
You never know what the best angle for your desired picture might be. It is often a good practice to ensure you capture multiple angles in order to ensure whatever you want has been captured in the images.
This becomes especially handy for when you want to update your real estate listings on your social media profiles; having the different angles can help create dynamic posts on your platforms.
Wide-Angle Lens Photos
The point of a property’s image is to be able to show as much of the property as you can in one go. A wide-angle lens is the optimal choice when it comes to this notion, as it allows you to capture most of the property.
You can then consciously choose to keep as much of the image as you like, but as the saying goes, ‘it is better to not need and have, than to need and not have’.
However, it is important that when you are using a wide-angle lens that you keep the camera level so that nothing in the image is distorted, otherwise any change in perspective can create an unnatural image, which will confuse and disinterest viewers.
Picture Editing
Whether it be for people’s social media or for your professional real estate social media profiles, editing is very helpful and sometimes necessary to polish your pictures.
There are various softwares and techniques available nowadays that are easily obtainable. You can sharpen the colors of the picture, crop them, color correct them, fix exposure and much more, to get the picture to the best it can be and showcase your property in the best light, pun intended.
One thing to remember when editing your pictures, is that you can not go overboard with any of the changes, otherwise, you will end up making the pictures look unnatural and people will assume that the property is not as good, because you had to change the picture so much.
Conclusion
Overall, there are a lot of ways in which you can take pictures for your real estate listings, but you have to take care to do them properly. Making sure you manage to get your images up to scratch and perfect in how you want them, will allow for your audience to truly connect with the property.
