Keyword: photography

TriPad frees up hands and laps, helps professionals in the field

TriPad frees up hands and laps, helps professionals in the field

Boosting productivity with one device As a frequent traveler, mobile worker, photographer or videographer (novice or professional), you know how much equipment and how many supplies you carry around with you while you work. Your bag, lap, and hands can easily become cluttered and full. As a result, this can greatly limit your productivity. And that’s not even mentioning the ...

Charlene Jimenez | 2012/01/31  | 5 Comments Gadgets

Instant Polaroid film development, 2012 style

Instant Polaroid film development, 2012 style

Shake it like a Polaroid picture When Polaroid announced they would no longer create the instant film experience of the past, few Americans that were still using Polaroids (artists, party promoters) were saddened, and others became nostalgic for yesteryear. Their PoGo product hit the market in 2008 but has seen little adoption with most users complaining of poor quality which ...

Marti Trewe | 2012/01/04  | 10 Comments Photography

Timelapse+ photographer tool prototype tour

Timelapse+ photographer tool prototype tour

Timelapse+ protytpe The Timelapse+ is an intervalometer (timer device) for automatically triggering SLR cameras, featuring wireless capabilities for connecting with accessories (like a smartphone!). The company says it can interface to most Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Pentax and Minolta SLR cameras and sets itself apart by allowing a delayed start, and extremely precise timing down to tenths of a secondd. ...

Marti Trewe | 2012/01/02  | 11 Comments Gadgets

Top real estate photographer of 2011 awarded

Top real estate photographer of 2011 awarded

Best real estate photographer of the year Each month, the Photography for Real Estate community of photographers votes on the best real estate photo for the month, but to close out the year, they voted on the top photographer of 2011, with Hawaiian photographer Dave Rezendes of Dave Rezendes Photography, Inc. winning by a large margin. The above image won the ...

AGBeat | 2012/01/01  | 28 Comments Marketing

Picfull – photo editor that does not require an account

Picfull – photo editor that does not require an account

Quick photo editing As a professional using the web, you have probably seen pictures on social networks that are edited and have fancy effects, but you just are not certain you want to sign up for an account on a photo sharing social network for fear of abandoning it, fear of not producing quality images and being judged by fellow ...

Tara Steele | 2011/12/18  | 17 Comments Marketing

Retouching photographs for retail, real estate, and marketing campaigns

Retouching photographs for retail, real estate, and marketing campaigns

What to do with an imperfect photo Let’s face it, sometimes photos we do ourselves for our marketing campaigns or even photo sets we’ve hired a professional to do aren’t always perfect and need a little editing. Sometimes we’re reusing images we bought years ago and need to improve them, but retouching photos isn’t exactly easy unless you’re proficient in ...

Tara Steele | 2011/11/27  | 5 Comments Marketing

Minimize efforts – automatically sync photos to Flickr, Facebook and more

Minimize efforts – automatically sync photos to Flickr, Facebook and more

Save time, save effort Sharing photos on the web is part of many companies’ marketing efforts and can create a lot of doubling up on effort. Uploading everything to Flickr, Picasa, Twitpic, Facebook, iPhoto and more can be tedious and time consuming. We get it, you’re called to be in multiple networks simultaneously, so let us show you some ways ...

AGBeat | 2011/03/30  | 7 Comments Social Media

Embed a photo slideshow on your blog in under two minutes

Embed a photo slideshow on your blog in under two minutes

Clean, beautiful slideshow: The above slideshow took under two minutes to create, using free web tool, Photo Snack. The downsides are that (1) it autoplays and (2) there is a watermark that says “photosnack” on my presentation but this can be removed by buying a pro account. What I love about Photo Snack is how easy it is to use ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/01/02  | 28 Comments Real Estate

Tech tip: simple way to bulk download pictures from Facebook

Tech tip: simple way to bulk download pictures from Facebook

If you’ve ever wished you had a simpler way to download images from Facebook, PickNZip is the solution. Quite simply, the service allows you to select your own albums, friends’ albums, pictures you’ve been tagged in and the like and download them into a zip file or a PDF. While this sounds like a useless service to some, consider the ...

Lani Rosales | 2010/12/18  | 20 Comments Social Media

Twitter picture service offers photo grouping like Flickr

Twitter picture service offers photo grouping like Flickr

A social median’s dream According to Mashable, Twitpic.com, the service bought by Twitter to host and tweet pictures now offers a photo grouping feature much like Flickr groups. Although users cannot (as of yet) upload pictures to another users’ group, each independent user can group their own pictures into a single group and give their social sphere a place to ...

Lani Rosales | 2010/06/01  | 3 Comments Social Media

HDR Real Estate Photography – Easy How To Tips

HDR Real Estate Photography – Easy How To Tips

Tips for creating high quality images This week we talked about HDR Photography as the future of real estate and got quite a response, so we sought out additional resources for you to learn more about editing photos for better presentability in your marketing of homes. While we advise hiring a photographer for all listings, some agents are more of ...

Lani Rosales | 2010/03/29  | 21 Comments How to

Preview of Photoshop’s Wicked New Feature – Real or a Hoax?

Preview of Photoshop’s Wicked New Feature – Real or a Hoax?

Real or fake? In celebration of its 20th anniversary (yes, that part is real), Adobe Photoshop is releasing their newest version of Photoshop, CS5 and a video preview of a ground breaking feature called “content-aware fill” has the internet buzzing. Adobe uploaded a video to YouTube about the new feature and despite using registered trademarks and formal bio information on ...

Lani Rosales | 2010/03/27  | 15 Comments Tech