mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

Check out this blog: http://photographyforrealestate.net/ and read the many past posts regarding perspective and lens distortion correction, proper use of off-camera flash, bracketing and blending, and much more....

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Thanks! Looks like a great site!

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

I don't do a lot of RE work, but I've never had a customer complain that I made an image look better than real.

Lemon Drop Kid Loc: Greeley, CO

Thanks for offering a great reply that backs up my contention that real estate photography should not falsify the size of rooms. Frankly, I am surprised that most responders here see nothing wrong with doing so. The realtor I worked with back in the 1970s had learned that it was not to his advantage to show a house to prospective buyers that pictures of in his advertisements would indicate rooms larger than they were. Buyers of houses do not appreciate being fooled.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I don't know what we would have said to our agent, nor what she would have said to the listing agent. What I do know is that any misrepresentation we noticed made us wonder what else was being misrepresented.

pendennis

Advertising photography walks a fine line between putting products' best feet forward, and going into fantasy land. Real estate sales has long been known for hype in trying to market and sell homes, especially in adverse market conditions. In the past, my wife and I have looked at homes and wondered just how the home "deteriorated" from the initial photos, to the actual walk through. That "spacious" family room turns out to be a converted 3rd bedroom; the "master" bedroom turns out to be barely big enough for necessary furniture.

The photos can't be artwork. Anyone who's seen more than two homes, and doesn't have stars in their eyes, will see through the phoniness. It's one thing to move the shortcomings down the list of features, but you can't Photoshop the house to non-reality.

twr25 Loc: New Jersey

All the pro real-estate videos online feature tilt-shift lenses ... I believe they fix the perspective aberration in close quarters but not sure. Might want to look into these lenses for your purpose.

mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

No. TS lenses need to be carefully adjusted for each shot. That doesn't work with video where the camera is moving and the perspective is changing by the second.