eric_shtern

<p>hi Tom. Thank you for your answer. The aibnb photos are all very clearly much lighter, but you can also see the little 'water stamp' on the top right that says 'airbnb verified photo' on the photos that were taken by them. Is it possible maybe for you to point me to a tutorial where I can see how I can improve my photos. Also any other comments you can provide would be great. Thank you in advance.</p>

<p>Thanks! Here is a photo that I took. It looks terrible in my opinion. So something like this, how long would I have to spend on it to correct it? Is there any online tutorials? here are photos that I took and I REALLY do not like them:<br>

<br /> https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/340531<br>

The first 10-15 or so photos are airbnb taken photos. the latter ones are all mine. you can clearly see the difference. <br>

<br /> The first photos are taken by Airbnb photographer, which spent like 20 minutes there. He did NOT use any additional flashes and he was using a small camera actually. Then after his photos end, are my photos, which can see are dark and grainy! This is very frustrating!</p>

<p>Thanks! Here is a photo that I took. It looks terrible in my opinion. So something like this, how long would I have to spend on it to correct it? Is there any online tutorials? here are photos that I took and I REALLY do not like them:<br>

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/340531<br>

The first photos are taken by Airbnb photographer, which spent like 20 minutes there. He did NOT use any additional flashes and he was using a small camera actually. Then after his photos end, are my photos, which can see are dark and grainy! This is very frustrating!</p>

 

<p>Thank you for responses. I know for sure that they do not use HDR as Airbnb forbids them to. So can i ask again yet another stupid question. If I become somewhat well versed in photoshop or other software, how much time on post processing will I need to spend on per image? Like 1 minute, 5 minutes, etc? please let me know. Thank you! Also, is there some online tutorial that could teach me to achieve such photos, both using the camera and then post processing? If someone can point me to such tutorial or video I would really really appreciate it. Thank you!</p>

<p>I have a question that may seem silly - I have seen Airbnb photographers make photos, that seem very light. Like the light source seems almost unnatural, like they for instance use some sort of filter to achieve this. Examples of such photos are:</p>

<p>https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/448831<br>

or<br>

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/401708<br>

My question is this, they sometimes take photos in the evening, yet the results are the same. How can I achieve the same? I have a DSLR with wide lens, is it a matter of increasing exposure light or what is it exactly? I tried everything but my photos seem grainy and strange. Can you please advise me how I can achieve similar results. Is it some type of filter to use?</p>

<p>Thank you in advance. </p>

 

<p>Thank you again for all of your responses, it is greatly appreciated. <br /> <br /> I guess it does not make sense to get 2 different bodies, I am glad I brought this up. <br /> <br /> At this point, I guess I have to determine if we should splurge and go for the Canon 5d mk II which I guess with the lens will be like $4000 since it will produce best results or go with something under $1000. Seems to be not point of considering something in the middle. <br /> <br /> I also forgot to mention that I also would like to possibly do some digital films with the camera (we require short clips of the properties we feature). I just realized that Canon 5D MK can do this very well, while a camera under $1000 would not have ability to do this at all. So this is something I must consider as well. <br /> <br /> Any further feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also, is there some basic software that you would recommend to run our images through to add more color / make them more attractive? Again, all images are of indoor real estate. I do not wish to spend much time playing with settings and was wondering if there is some basic, good batch type of software we can run on them.<br>

Also, the other thing I am considering is that if I do get more heavily into photography as a hobby, which is my intent. I guess it makes sense to have a really nice camera vs. upgrading a few years later. While i know little about this, it seems to me that DSLR are not likely to make the type of technological progress in the next couple of years in terms of image quality that they have in the last 5 years or so. <br /> Thanks again</p>

<p>Hello everyone.<br>

I am fairly new to photography and have a few questions and would appreciate any feedback from the experts. My question is split into 2 parts:<br>

We are in real estate business so we need a high end ultra wide lens and new camera body. In the past, I used a Canon Rebel with 6 megapixels, however, was disappointed with light and color contrast.<br>

Question #1<br>

We are looking now to upgrade and were suggested the following items:</p>

<h2>Body: Canon EOS 550D</h2>

<h2>Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22 f/3.5-4.5 USM</h2>

<p>Both of these appear to have very good reviews and it seems both these items would result in around $1500 or so in total charges.<br>

With a budget of about $1500-$2000 for both lens and body, would the above options be ideal for us? Our shots are almost all indoors and often with not too much light.<br>

Question #2<br>

For another office location for the same business, we also need a camera with wide lens for real estate. However, for this office I am looking at possibly going with Sony and the following lens:<br>

Sigma 10-20mm f3.5<br>

I am not yet clear on which body to get for this lens. For office #2, we intend for the camera to be higher end than Canon so I was thinking Sony was it. If we have a $2000-$3000 total budget here, what are our best options? Again, the goal here is indoor real estate shoots, with minimal adjustment on PC of images.</p>

<p>Any help will be greatly appreciated.</p>