Taking Real Estate Photos? Try This Trick.

Hat Tip: Shutterbug

A Florida couple trying to sell their home may have accidentally hit gold with their real estate photos.

The couples' 15-year granddaughter was taking the photos when she had the inspiration to include her grandmother.  The results are priceless.

MY GRANDMA IS TRYING TO SELL HER HOUSE IN FLORIDA AND THESE ARE THE PICS I AM LAUGHING SO HARD pic.twitter.com/rONaIUyevS
— makenzie (@asapmakky) March 26, 2015

This does suggest something for those taking real estate photos, including professionals.  Nothing beats staging when it comes to real estate, and the ultimate in staging is apparently an 86-year old grandmother.


Honestly, these photos scream "You too could be enjoying yourself in this home."

That is the goal of real estate photos.

Finally Joined Twitter

I have finally signed up for a Twitter account.

Yes, I've given in.  Surrendered,   Joined the Dark Side.


I even got to try out Fine Art America's Twitter ap after uploading a new photograph to that site.  (It only took a year).

Part of the problem I've always had with Twitter has to do with the name.  I realize it has to do with "bird sounds" (tweet), but I've lways had the notion that it was really meant as a joke by the creators of the site.

After all, wouldn't someone using Twitter be known as a Twit?

Spidey is a Leica Fan

For those of you that never read comic books as a child, Peter Parker (aka the Amazing Spider-man) worked as a freelance photographer.  He specialized in photographs of Spider-man.

Yes, he made money selling selfies.



The camera shows up at the 46 second mark in the old cartoon intro.

It's apparently a Leica M3.


The latest movies have him using a Yashica Electro 35 GSN, another range finder.

Tobey Maguire breaks the mold by using an SLR camera.  (According to IMDB it's a 1981 Canon New F-1 SLR with blocked-out logo.)

EU to Tax Cameras!

Digital Camera World has an article today on a new annual tax to be levied on any camera with a value over 240 Euros.

I suspect this is an April Fool's Day joke.  Every mention I can find of this "camera tax" leads back to this one story.

The thing is, this isn't that far fetched given the things that the EU has done recently, including a ruling a couple of years ago that any camera capable of recording more than 30 minutes of video fell under the heading of camcorder for import/export classification.

That resulted in those cameras being subject to a 4.9% import duty.


And that's no joke.

Hat Tip: PetaPixel

Those fashion editors have gone too far this time!

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