Provide your own pictures to the estate agent

chickmug

Jazzie99 wrote: »

Never thought about that.... maybe I'll leave the garden ones out!! Although I have to admit its never crossed my mind to look at a photo and then decide how long a house has been on the market !!

You need the best shots you can get and your agent can put a caption near to the outside shots saying "Our vendor clients took these last Summer".

boots_babe

To be honest, it's not even the quality of the camera. I mean, that contributes to the overall results, but looking on Rightmove I get the general impression that most agents just stand in the doorway of each room and snap a picture, then move onto the next room.

No thought goes into maximising the area of the room that you seen in the picture, or best angle, etc etc. My husband and I are certainly not pro photographers, just your average digital camera user, but with very little thought we were able to come up with much more reasonable photos.

Of course if you have an SLR and/or wide angle camera then all the better!

chickmug

boots_babe wrote: »

Of course if you have an SLR and/or wide angle camera then all the better!

You DO need a wide angle I always used 27/28 mm but you don't essentially need a DSLR. I used a Bridge Camera like one I just bought (Canon SX10).

Many EA's just can't take a decent shot even with a expensive camera

googler

Jazzie99 wrote: »

Never thought about that.... maybe I'll leave the garden ones out!! Although I have to admit its never crossed my mind to look at a photo and then decide how long a house has been on the market !!

The opposite to your situation is the owner who puts their house on the market when it's snowing, or frosty. When, 6 months later, the house is still unsold, they really should change the winter shot for a summer one....

Agree with chickmug though, if there's scope to mention on website, printed materials etc that the shot was taken 6 months ago, then go for that......

boots_babe

chickmug wrote: »

You DO need a wide angle I always used 27/28 mm but you don't essentially need a DSLR. I used a Bridge Camera like one I just bought (Canon SX10).

Many EA's just can't take a decent shot even with a expensive camera

Well I'm sure wide angle is far better - actually I do notice the pictures on Rightmove that are done this way as they do stand out much more and give a better perspective - but you don't actually *need* one.

All I'm trying to say is, if your EA photos are terrible, there is nothing to lose by grabbing your own camera, whatever type, and with some thought taking the best photos you can. It wouldn't be worth going out to buy a wide angle one just for that, that's all I meant :rolleyes: Anything would be better than some of the blurry things I've seen lol.

chickmug

boots_babe wrote: »

Well I'm sure wide angle is far better - actually I do notice the pictures on Rightmove that are done this way as they do stand out much more and give a better perspective - but you don't actually *need* one.

All I'm trying to say is, if your EA photos are terrible, there is nothing to lose by grabbing your own camera, whatever type, and with some thought taking the best photos you can. It wouldn't be worth going out to buy a wide angle one just for that, that's all I meant :rolleyes: Anything would be better than some of the blurry things I've seen lol.

Fully agree with you and all your comments.

Most EA's just don't get it -- the importance of good pics. I always went back until I took all outside in the sun. Because photography has been a hobby of mine all my life I thoroughly enyoyed it. I also made sure in the software back in the office every pic being used was enhanced to it's optimum. There are many shockers on RightMove:eek:

boots_babe

Well I certainly wish there were more EAs like yourself around here

purplebuzz

Well we took our new pictures ourselves last night and emailed them all to the estate agent with instructions to use them.

Hopefully, there won't be any problem and that I get a reply today!!

franklee

I used my own too. Every time the sun came out I nipped out to take more pictures and picked the best ones. The sky was so blue I could spot my house in the EA's window from across the road and the garden looked great.