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Photography!

TMoose
TMoose Posts: 267 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
I'm no longer looking for a house, but still looking for decorating ideas, and came across this beauty of an advert on Rightmove.

I wonder whether the EA actually wants to sell this place!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29404798.html

I'm sure I could take better photos than that, and the description is completely useless!

Still, it's less than a quarter of a million :)

Moose
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  • Welshdebtor
    Welshdebtor Posts: 628 Forumite
    That is bad :rotfl::rotfl:

    So has that ad given you any ideas? :D
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  • InkZ
    InkZ Posts: 258 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Which is why I took my own photos with my SLR, a 10mm lens and bouncing the flash off the ceiling when selling my flat :)
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,758 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Name Dropper
    Amazes me that people don't put the toilet lid down before taking a photo!
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  • GAH
    GAH Posts: 1,034 Forumite
    Guessing by the beds, its an ex rental property
  • TMoose
    TMoose Posts: 267 Forumite
    and why not actually open the curtains?
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    InkZ wrote: »
    Which is why I took my own photos with my SLR, a 10mm lens and bouncing the flash off the ceiling when selling my flat :)

    I've often considered freelancing myself to Estate Agents to take their photographs because I could do a better job than 90% of them.
    :o
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    silvercar wrote: »
    Amazes me that people don't put the toilet lid down before taking a photo!

    Who, the vendor or the EA?

    Put yourself in the photographer's shoes - if the owner is manky enough to leave the lid up, do you -

    ask the owner to put it down,
    put it down yourself, or
    take the photo anyway, and make a mental not to carry rubber gloves in the car next time?
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    And does nobody spell check any more?
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    pulliptears wrote: »
    I've often considered freelancing myself to Estate Agents to take their photographs because I could do a better job than 90% of them.

    Who would pay you?

    Would you expect to be paid upfront, or when the property sells?
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    googler wrote: »
    Who would pay you?

    Would you expect to be paid upfront, or when the property sells?

    Never really thought too deeply into it, I guess you could offer it as a service to vendors and they would pay for better images. Don't know, as I said it was a brief flash of a thought when I finished Uni :D
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