Real Estate Photography 101: The Basics You NEED To Know! || Sony a7 IV

If you're looking to get started with real estate photography, and learn the ins and outs of everything involved, then this is the video for you! In this comprehensive tutorial, I'm going to cover all of the basics you need to know for shooting real estate using HDR auto exposure bracketing, including: the gear you will need - including my full kit using my Sony a7 IV, the different camera settings to use, many different shooting techniques, and how to go about editing your real estate photos.
By the end of this video, you should have all of the tools that are needed to go out and begin shooting real estate photos today, and make clients as well as realtors (and yourself) happy by taking photos that are well at-home being on your country's multiple listing service (MLS) website for real estate! Furthermore, this tutorial includes all real-world example photos shot on different real estate jobs, and a significant amount of B-roll and screen captures from my camera while on-the-job during different shoots.
Without a doubt, this video is one of the more comprehensive real estate photography for beginners tutorials I've ever put together, so if this was of any help to you, feel free to leave a like, subscribe and comment to let me know what you liked! Also, if you like tutorials of this nature, and have ideas for additional content you'd like to see around real estate, or anything else covered on this channel, let me know in the comments what you'd like to see.
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0:00 - Intro, what this tutorial covers
0:29 - Chapter 1: GEAR
1:13 - Cameras
1:56 - Important camera features for real estate
2:25 - Sensor size: full frame vs. APS-C
3:36 - Lenses
3:47 - Zoom lenses
6:08 - Prime lenses
7:40 - Tripods
9:56 - Additional accessories (memory cards, lens filters)
11:06 - Chapter 2: SETTINGS
12:12 - Picture profile
12:41 - Auto-exposure bracketing for HDR images
15:28 - Auto-focus vs. manual focus
16:59 - ISO
18:02 - Aperture (aperture priority)
19:13 - Shutter speed
19:58 - White balance
21:13 - Stabilization
21:39 - Metering modes
22:16 - Image quality settings (e.g. RAW vs. JPEG)
24:44 - Chapter 3: SHOOTING
25:24 - Tripod height
27:42 - Keep your verticals vertical
29:08 - Use symmetrical compositions
30:32 - Exterior shots
31:39 - Twilight shots
32:27 - Interior shots
35:17 - Staging
37:03 - Chapter 4: EDITING
37:27 - Applications for editing photos
38:23 - Creating a new collection in Lightroom
39:03 - Importing photos in Lightroom
40:24 - Stacking photos by capture time
42:39 - HDR merging photos
45:11 - Exterior #1 - exposure
46:04 - White balance
46:32 - Fixing grass patches using clone/heal tool
47:34 - Enable profile corrections
47:52 - Transform level adjustments
48:18 - Cropping photos
48:52 - Sky replacement using Photoshop
50:30 - Exterior #2
53:25 - Copying settings between photos
54:06 - Exterior #3
54:40 - Fixing reflections with the clone tool
55:26 - Exterior #4 (twilight)
58:08 - Exterior #5 (multi-family, twilight)
1:00:11 - Summary of exterior edits
1:00:58 - Interior #1 - exposure
1:01:34 - White balance
1:01:47 - Profile corrections, leveling
1:01:59 - Window Pull #1 - quick hacks
1:03:33 - Interior #2
1:04:21 - Window Pull #2 - adjustment brush mask
1:08:32 - Interior #3
1:09:36 - Window Pull #3 - Photoshop layers
1:13:03 - Interior #4
1:13:49 - Removing color casts (saturation)
1:14:38 - Summary of interior edits
1:15:31 - Exporting final photos
1:17:13 - Conclusion
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