rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

The idiot we retained to sell our house in Massachusetts didn't notice that the temperature had dropped to single digits. Instead of making sure the heat was set, he did nothing until a passerby noticed water pouring out the windows later. We had to drop the price on the house from $180K to $120K to unload it. Never assume that a Realtor has any understanding or intelligence.

ButchS Loc: Spokane, WA

Shoot from a ladder to get better perspective. Or use the perspective tool in your favorite photo editor.

Ched49 Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa.

I think a lot of it has to do with the houses being sold, high end or medium priced houses. The two times I experienced a house being put on the selling list, two Real Estate Agent's walked in and one of them pulled a point & shoot out of her purse and started taking pictures.

Paul Buckhiester Loc: Columbus, GA USA

Some really good lessons on Lynda.com

mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

For RE photographers, every market area is different. Here in the Chicago area, most agents use pros and even the "mid-range" homes are expensive, justifying the fee agents pay for photos. My minimum fee is $250 -- more for large high-end homes. I typically spend an hour to shoot the average home. That, plus up to an hour round trip travel time and maybe 3 hours post processing time means about $50 per hour minus other expenses. I deliver as many shots as it takes to fully cover all the features of the home -- sometimes up to 40 or 50 photos. Our MLS has no limit, and agents are now taking advantage of that. I try to deliver within 24 hours via DropBox and have an account with our MLS that lets me upload photos and a link to my slideshow site, directly to the agent's draft listing, so that all are in place when they activate the listing.

Here's a forum that will be very useful -- taught me a lot.

http://photographyforrealestate.net/

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

When you're talking about photos that are going to be presented online or in a printed brochure, image quality comes second. The primary consideration will be the composition.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

{the photos are often fairly small}

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Sorry, I got interrupted and had to run out before saying that, but that's why image quality is not important.

mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

Well.... our Chicago area MLS displays photos at 1980 x 1080 pixels in size. My agents print brochures sometimes with photos at full page size So. image quality is important to them.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

OK, IQ is not completely unimportant, but 1980x1080 is about 2 MPx so you don't need a 20 MPx camera. Full page (8.5x11?) at 150dpi is equivalent to around 2 MPx. It's possible to print finer than that but probably unlikely.