Digital Photography and You!

It has been said that a picture says a thousand words but does that also apply to digital photography?

Helping agents manipulate their digital pictures on a regular basis, I’ve seen a pattern. One of the beauties of a digital picture is that it doesn’t cost anything; one photo has the same production cost as 1000. Because digital photography is a relatively new phenomenon many people use their digital cameras like they would have used a film camera. With a film camera you find your best vantage point and take one, maybe two shots and move on. You wouldn’t want to waste your film and have to pay to have it printed. Same agent now has a digital camera; problem is that their habits don’t change with the new medium. Stop being an amateur and “shoot like a pro.” When was the last time you sat next to a professional photographer and watched their technique? They constantly take pictures. Of those hundreds of pictures some turn out bad, some okay, and occasionally they get a great shot. We should all use that same technique when taking pictures of houses. If you take 20 shots of the front of a house from 20 different angles and exposure settings, you’re bound to get a great one.

So to bring this full circle, if a picture says a thousand words, say a couple hundred thousand!

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