Top 5 Issues With Real Estate Photos Part 2 - Photos Taken Out of Order

Real Estate Photography Tips For Realtors.jpg

Usually the flow for photographing a property for example a home should be external front view, first level foyer, main room/living room, dining room, kitchen, family room if any, finishing with the bathrooms. Then proceed to the second floor bedrooms starting with the Master unless it is on a higher level. Ensuites should be photographed next to the bedrooms, if it is not an ensuite bath it should be placed at the end of the bedrooms. Then 3rd or more floors, and any terraces or balconies on the upper levels adjacent to the rooms they are attached to, then basement/lower level starting with the primary rooms and ending with the furnace room if necessary. Once the internal images are all captured then move to the final exterior images including the patio, garden, pool area, and culminating in the exterior boundaries area shots and garages.

That is the natural flow of the property in the eyes of a potential buyer and makes visual sense. It is surprising to me how many photo sets we get that have no logical shooting plan where everything is mixed up. What makes this situation more difficult to manage (as we have to reorder them for MLS and any marketing materials) is we will get this misaligned flow especially for vacant properties where almost all of the rooms look the same.

I am sure some of this is done in the post processing stage, but besides the realtor how is the designer supposed to guess the layout without a proper flow or floorplans. K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple) it for everyone.

We at EPT pride ourselves in re-organizing the photos before we package them with a natural flow, of course this is all to taste but in the eye of the viewer the property layout will make a lot more sense.