From gear to editing, composition, lighting, settings, techniques and more, real estate photographer Nathan Cool provides a comprehensive guide for shooting high-quality interior real estate photography from start to finish. Learn how to not just take, but also "make" great real estate interior photos with an efficient workflow and cost-effective tools to speed up your shooting and editing processes. With over 70 color images showing real-world examples, screen shots and diagrams, you'll learn the principles that Nathan Cool and many other professional real estate photographers apply to their work. Far from being a dry academic tome, this book shows practical techniques that prove profitable for a real estate photography business. See how you can stand out from today's crowd of camera clickers and show clients you charge like a pro because you shoot like one.

Photographing interiors is not as easy as you might think, and it takes a lot of practice to produce consistently strong, high-impact compositions for your clients. Still, there is money to be made in this field, and whether you’re looking to work as a full-time real estate photographer or develop a side-line business, you’ll need to arm yourself to produce client-pleasing photographs. In this book, Ron Castle introduces you to the skills you need to succeed in real estate photography. You’ll gain insight into some basics of the business, and you’ll learn what kind of equipment you’ll need to do the job. You’ll also learn what and what NOT to photograph, work to produce strong compositions, and find suggestions for an efficient and effective post-processing workflow. The later chapters will consist of several sample home shoots. These images and their captions will provide helpful suggestions and perspectives on what a typical “real-world” real estate shoot entails.

An overview of indoor photography suitable for both professional photographers and serious amateurs includes tips and lessons on lighting, location, and other techniques essential to achieving stunning results with both traditional and digital equipment. Original.

The core goal of photography is representing subjects that have depth and texture in a medium that inherently lacks both those qualities, and this book shows the best way to rise to that challenge: through the careful application and capture of lighting. It demonstrates how to accentuate or minimize textures, add or subtract highlights, and create or combat shadows to showcase the subjects in the best way and create the illusion of a third dimension in the images. Exploring techniques for lighting portraits, still-life subjects, nature images, and architectural shots, both studio and location lighting are covered in detail. The book teaches photographers how to study their subjectsÑwith all of the textures, colors, shapes, and surfaces they haveÑthen visualize the image as a finished photograph before the photography actually begins. With chapters that thoroughly cover the science of lighting and visualization, photographers can apply that knowledge and successfully create artful images.

In this second book in his real estate photography series, Nathan shows advanced editing techniques to create high-end real estate images. In-depth, detailed instructions, coupled with over 150 screenshots and example images guide you step-by-step through the tools used to repair images, validate exposures, correct problematic colors and artifacts, and easily remove unwanted items. Learn how to quickly add sunny skies to cloudy days, impactful TV scenery, and natural fireplace swaps. See how simple it is to evenly light a room by putting together photo composites in post-processing, along with tricks to make showers pop and hardwood floors look rich. Nathan places an emphasis on efficiency, sharing various Lightroom presets and showing how to turn repetitive Photoshop processes into one-button actions. While staying on-topic, Nathan also expands the "whys" to the "hows", providing a wide range of knowledge that can be applied to other techniques as well. Set yourself apart from the competition by learning the keys to editing speed with impressive, professional results.

The Business of Real Estate Photography provides the blueprints to start your own real estate photography business by providing a detailed guide on developing a business strategy and marketing plan, in addition to valuable information on the financial and legal aspects of the business. It assists you in gaining a thorough understanding of the market and includes many useful tips and lessons learned from the author’s own experiences that can save you time and money when establishing and growing your own business. It also includes free templates to help with market research, financial planning and marketing activities. The real estate photography business can be an enjoyable way to earn a living if you have a passion for photography or real estate and wish to enjoy a flexible lifestyle. The barriers to entry are minimal as all you need to get started is a digital SLR, wide-angle lens and a tripod. It is a niche photography discipline that requires knowledge of the real estate business and passion for developing the skills for photographing this type of subject. The book includes many useful tips and lessons from the author based on his own experiences that can save you time and money when growing your business. The book is recommended for people who are planning to start or currently operate a real estate photography business. It is also a good read for those who have a passion for photography and want to start their first business or those who are interested in the business of photography and real estate from a marketing perspective.

With virtual tours on the rise in 2020, Nathan Cool's latest book is a timely resource showing how you can photograph, create, and host 360 virtual tours, in more ways than one. Using either inexpensive portable cameras or high-end DSLRs, Nathan shows the steps involved with 360 photography and how to optimize various techniques to fit your real estate photography business. Nathan covers gear, compositions, photography techniques, hosting services and options, editing practices, workflows, software, and pricing calculations to guide you through photographing and publishing 360 virtual tours. This book builds on techniques in Nathan's interior real estate photography book so that you can optionally incorporate flash and high-end editing for impressively impactful tours. By using the professional techniques in this seventh book in Nathan's real estate photography series, you can show your clients that when it comes to providing virtual tours, you're not a consumer with a camera; but instead, you're a pro.