Sending the photos

1. Upload the photos from our order form
   
2. Email us your photos. Attach the photos to an email and send them to us.
3. Send us you memory card or copy the folder with photos to CD and mail it to us. Use a Greeting Card envelope available at office supply stores. A greeting card envelope, a CD and the single page order form can be shipped for a single stamp! For realtors who hate computers, but still want to be high-tech, we can process the photos from your memory cards. Buy a few smaller memory cards (16Mbyte or 32Mbyte) and use a separate card for each property you photograph. You card will be returned when the tour is processed.

Photo Tips

The photos should be in the order that you wish them to appear in the tour. This simply means that you should take the photos with the digital camera in the order you want to be displayed in the tour.  Start with the exterior, front and rear. Then move into the home and photograph each level of the home. Try to take a total of 20 to 30 photographs, more photos make  the internet tours too large to download quickly and the DVD tours too long (Virtual home tours can become very boring very quickly.)

Keep the camera level in the landscape position (normal), do not rotate the camera into the portrait position to take photos. If you rotate the camera between  photos the tall photos will appear stretched on TV screens. A digital camera's normal (landscape) position most closely matches a TV screens layout.

Suggested Picture taking Sequence

1. Exterior, 2 front shots from different angles
2. Entry, Living room, Family room
3. Kitchen, Dining room
4. Main Bath
5. Master Bedroom, Master bath
6. Other bedrooms, other baths
7. Garage
8. Basement
9. One or two exterior rear shots. You may wish add additional exterior shots for last if the yard has special features.

These are only guidelines, just remember to take the photos in the order you want them to appear in the tour and do NOT rotate the camera between photographs.

Exterior photo  tips

1. Highlight positive areas of a property.
2. Make sure that the horizon is straight, not on a slant.
3. When possible, have something in the foreground to add interest to a photo.

Interior Photo Tips

Taking interior photos is the most difficult part of real estate photography. The best time to take the photos is late afternoon, when the light inside a room is brighter than the light outside but  when there is still enough light so scenery shows through the windows. When rooms are dark, open drapes and shades and doors to let outside light brighten the interior.

Even with these suggestions for increasing room lighting, you may run into exposure problems in rooms brightly lit by windows. Light entering the room from outside causes backlighting, which disrupts a digital camera’s built-in light meter. Backlighting will make the room appear dark while the scene outside the window is better exposed. A good solution is to use a flash.  Don't worry about it too much or production team can work wonder on photos with backlighting problems.

Eliminate clutter when taking photos of interiors. Move items off counter tops, tables and floors that make the room look cluttered.

Important things to remember

• Take Photos in order you wish them displayed in the tour