Edmonton Realestate

I did some images for a downtown condo last week that a friend I met via twitter (zoomjer) was listing. So if you are long on the dough, and want a great view with ammenities in downtown, then look no further than this $900,000 beauty.

Edmonton Professional Realtor Headshot Photography

Edmonton Realtor Nancy Sanborn

I had the pleasure of shooting with Nancy Sanborn today, who you may know since she does a good job of marketing her name, and she turned out to be such a nice woman. You know when sometimes you would just rather chit chat with someone rather than do your work, well this was one of those times. I really enjoyed our time together this morning, and look forward to working with you again.
Now some of you who have read the blog before may say to yourself ‘Hey! I thought you usually shoot realtors on a white cyclic?’ Well, I did. The difference here is that I kept the spill off the white background in order to keep it dark because she was in such dark colors. But it’s nice to know you are paying attention. You are paying attention aren’t you?

Photographing Realtor Headshots

I have had the pleasure to work with a bunch of realtors over the years while doing my photography.  One thing I find that seems to hold true for most is that they like their photos on plain white backgrounds.  I always suggest this for them as well, since it allows them to easily remove the background should they need to drop their image as an overlay onto a listing or other material.   The key thing when shooting on white, is to ensure that your wrap is not too harsh.  Many people think that it is easy to shoot on white, but in actuality, it can pose a few challenges.  If you blast too much light on your background to make it white, and the subject is too close to it, then the wrap (that is the light comming off the cyclic and wrapping around the person) is so strong that it can blow out the details in the hair and near the edges of the subject.  The other thing is making sure that the background is not left underlit, and therby going to an off white, or grey tone which can make the subject harder to separate from the background in the future.  So here is a portrait I made for Nadeem last week just befor I headed out to Ontario for the Easter weekend.