Every year I and some of my best friends do a lightning 4-day trip up to Colorado to climb one of the 54 peaks that are 14,000′ or taller. It’s doubtful we’ll ever climb all of them since we’re getting “old” now. This year’s climb was Mount Belford (14,197′).

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When my son Joshua and I were exploring downtown Dallas last week, we discovered this 30-foot-tall eyeball sculpture. We immediately realized that it presented endless opportunities for animation, making for great Photoshop and Premiere practice. Enjoy my weird little exercise. This video is best-experienced with its soundtrack.* Crank it up!

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I published an earlier version of this Photosphere, but then I figured out several ways to make it better. It’s kind of nice with the music, so turn up the speakers!

This kind of presentation is ideal for schools, large churches, hotels, and convention centers… or any venue where potential visitors would like to “look around”

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When friends ask me to photograph a house they are selling, I usually give them a copy of the photographs that I gave their Realtor. So many memories are bound up in the home where they were formed. We picture our mothers and fathers, brothers, and sisters, sons and daughters in the spaces we shared with them.

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Take a Look Around and Around and Around. Wait for it….

Photo Spheres have been around (pardon the pun) for several years. But I had ignored them until recently, when a friend reintroduced me to their charm. During his visit from Baltimore, Marco and I went out and shot full spherical shots of several locations,

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Last week, I shot three new houses for a friend down in Austin. The houses were ALMOST ready for listing, but there was finishing work remaining on each of them. The landscaping was not done yet. Driveways and walks were muddy; floors were dusty. There was a temporary utility pole in one yard,

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Video Version of Virtual Tours

This format is excellent for posting on YouTube and embedding in your Facebook page. There are branded and unbranded versions. I recommend the branded version as it places your contact information at the beginning and end of the video. In your account settings, you have the opportunity to setup automated YouTube publishing,

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Dogs Wreck Home Staging

On a recent Real Estate shoot, I and the Realtor tried to hide some soiled cushions in an otherwise lovely living room. We gave up. The owner’s dogs had simply made themselves too comfortable! The photo of that room was too important to discard, so I retouched the couch so that the soiled cloth would not distract.

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She only THOUGHT the floor wasn’t ready!
NOTE: Real Estate Photography does not include structural retouching. This was for demonstration only.

On a recent practice/demo photo shoot, my host apologized that one of her rooms was not really ready for photography. It turns out that the carpet had been pulled up in the master bedroom,

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