Lucas is spot-on (see, I'm picking up that English lingo from watching BBC
America).
Having recently sold our home and consequently looked at a lot of
prospective new places I will tell you that the tidy homes always looked
better. If a person won't clean-up when strangers are coming over, will
they fix that leaky roof or just paint the ceiling and hope it's not raining
when you come?
We actually rented a storage unit and took 30-40% of our junk off-site. We
had to clean-up every day before we left for work because you never know
when those freaky agents will come romping through. Man...I can't live like
that.
I never got any photos of the inside that I'd show the list and it didn't
matter since the agent's assistant took her own (with a P&S digi) that they
published in favor of mine...Apparently mine had a weird natural look with
no blown-out windows or odd angles and they didn't think that would look
right among all the other house photos. Go figure.
CW
typing from his new living room.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucas Rijnders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: interior photography
Hi Vic, Markus,
I do not think that the house is shown in a good way overall.
I agree...
Inside it is much too crowded with some things laying around and the
photos
have a yellow cast.
I don't mind the yellow cast (in fact I found the kitchen too blue). My
main problem with the photo's is that the house is a bloody mess! Put away
the dishes, make the bed, put all books upright and get rid of that chair
in the bathroom! Take a look at a website of a hotel (any with more than
three stars): that's how to present a room: neat and clean. No sombrero's
on the lamps.
The outside shoots are not a lot better.
Well, it is a pretty bland garden. It screams "throw out the grass and
make something nice here"! That might actually be alluring to some buyers.
sorry for my harsh critic.
The brochure for the house I bought was a lot like this. That cost the
buyers dearly: my wife and I were the only ones interested, and we knew
it. So, redoing this might be well worth the extra time...
--
Hope this helps,
Regards, Lucas
Anyway, the results are here:
http://users.pandora.be/vicmortelmans/fts/caroline/index.html
The vertical lines are not what they should have been (even though I
used a tripod). Certainly in the garden, the direct sunlight causes too
much contrast. I think the available light on the interior is very
satisfying, even the shot with the two windows that looks 'burned',
because it's a good thing for a house to stress available light.
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