Ideally they should be big enough to see. Take BIG pictures as you can crop and resize them and they won’t get all pixilated.

Ideally they should be big enough to see. Take BIG pictures as you can crop and resize them and they won’t get all pixilated.

The world of phots! The first thing that comes to my mind is aahhhhh. Even with a professional photographer, done of my photos are ever perfectly sized to be compatible with the mls. The mls systems need to let realtors upload better photos at sizes they want, but standard sizes of course.

You are absolutely right about the cropping of the picture. The fact that you create focus on the home, improves the overall picture impact.

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/DeanOuellette">... Totally. I got that from his blog posts http://tinyurl.com/modvl3 & http://tinyurl.com/l9c4l7

Paula / Jim -

You can see that Point2 awesome graph right here on Phoenix Real Estate Guy:

http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-estate-l...

Hey Jim :) If I remember correctly, someone - I think Point2 - created an awesome graph indicating the amount of leads generated increases dramatically with the amount of pictures. It was something like listings with over 21 pictures generated 11 leads, while listings with one picture generated .3

As an agent - that would motivate me to get pictures online so I could sell my clients home. Just sayin'

Here's the thing - if the sellers don't check up on their hired representatives, the only ones who are going to know how bad their homes look are the buyers and the good Realtors ...

Sellers are delinquent if they *don't* ensure that the pictures are at the very least decent and not laughably bad.

Some Realtors suck, but if the clients are ok with this ....

(Trying out the keywords :) )

I had to comment for two reasons -

1) I just realized the beauty of Keyword Luv and could you please go add my keywords to all my comments :)

2) I actually wrote a post about this except the agents here were intentionally making the pictures postage stamp size. I guess the idea was to entice the buyer to want to visit in order to really get a good look at the home. It still amazes me buyers still have to ask for pictures when you can buy a digital camera for $100.00.

Taking photos of listings is such an important part of what we do; it just blows my mind when I see agents with listings that don't have pictures, or have blurry ones everywhere.

Reminds me of Gwen Banta and Chris Griffiths' posts on AG. I guess down-sizing includes the grey matter behind the eye of the camera....

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A program by the name of "Irfan View" should take care of the fuzzy s when resizing your photographs. My local mls has also gone with a standard size photo which has advantages, however my camera like your takes photos way to big. At any rate try "Irfan View" it's a simple to use free program for resizing photos.

I wonder if realtor's know that good pictures and a lot of them are what's going to get the house sold. Who looks at bad quality pictures? I don't

Simple stupid, Jay, it's simple stupid...

Over on the seattlebubble.com forum, there is a really entertaining thread there called "Detrimental Listing Photos." I suggest scrolling through the pages of that thread for a good laugh:

http://seattlebubble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&a...;...

In my opinion, I wouldn't crop the right side as much. I know when I'm looking for houses, I'd like to see a little space around the house.

The problem is not the quality although it could be but if you're using the built in camera on your phone just try to get a good stance so you wont get a blurry photo. A digital camera would help a lot.

You are just getting picky now Jay... you asked for more photos... you didnt specify size ;-)

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Come to think of it, I don't remember taking an aptitude test when I a) got licensed, b) joined my brokerage, c) joined the board.

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Yep. I had a reader contact me today asking me to chastise Realtors in my market for their inability to take good pictures. :)

There oughta be a wall of shame for Realtors' bad pictures ... in each local market ...

Hey Jay, Just a quick question.... do you do your own pictures or do you hire somebody? Love the blog ;)

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I agree with you whole heartedly. I wasn't all that thrilled with the pictures that my agent took of our house, much less the brochure. Since we are semi-DIY with the listing, I took my own photos, created a whole new brochure, and my own website www.3214hearthfire.com . You know what? Suddenly we started getting more showings!

I've seen that before too, Jay.

In the past when I've come across those types of images, it's because someone used the built-in "camera" on a phone/BlackBerry/SmartPhone... because, you know, why spend $200.00 on a camera if there's one built in to your phone? Less to carry!

Personally, I've found that the best compromise between quick loading image and a quality image is to use Photoshop to optimize the photos for the web at 560x375 pixels. The file is about 15% of the size of the original 3.5 -4 MB file that comes out of my camera, it loads much quicker, and makes a nice-sized image for display on just about any website.

I love when MLS photos are taken with cell phone cameras. Maybe they're going for a very understated effect?

I used Irfanview in the past. Free and simple. Now I use Picasa from Google which for the novice like me does wonders on some of my photos.

If I used something like Photoshop it would be too easy to clean up pictures more than I should.

I think the technology isn't the issue. It is laziness. I have went back plenty of times because the image I saw on the camera screen hid some stuff that popped out when it was on the computer screen. Or maybe it wasn't as clear as I thought.

You would think that these agents would run out of clients but it won't happen. There are always more clients.

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Ideally they should be big enough to see. Take BIG pictures as you can crop and resize them and they wonu00e2u0080u0099t get all pixilated.

Ideally they should be big enough to see. Take BIG pictures as you can crop and resize them and they wonu00e2u0080u0099t get all pixilated.

The world of phots! The first thing that comes to my mind is aahhhhh. Even with a professional photographer, done of my photos are ever perfectly sized to be compatible with the mls. The mls systems need to let realtors upload better photos at sizes they want, but standard sizes of course.

You are absolutely right about the cropping of the picture. The fact that you create focus on the home, improves the overall picture impact.

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/DeanOuellette">@DeanOuellette Totally. I got that from his blog posts http://tinyurl.com/modvl3 & http://tinyurl.com/l9c4l7

Paula / Jim -

You can see that Point2 awesome graph right here on Phoenix Real Estate Guy:

http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-estate-l...

Hey Jim :) If I remember correctly, someone - I think Point2 - created an awesome graph indicating the amount of leads generated increases dramatically with the amount of pictures. It was something like listings with over 21 pictures generated 11 leads, while listings with one picture generated .3

As an agent - that would motivate me to get pictures online so I could sell my clients home. Just sayin'

Here's the thing - if the sellers don't check up on their hired representatives, the only ones who are going to know how bad their homes look are the buyers and the good Realtors ...

Sellers are delinquent if they *don't* ensure that the pictures are at the very least decent and not laughably bad.

Some Realtors suck, but if the clients are ok with this ....

(Trying out the keywords :) )

I had to comment for two reasons -

1) I just realized the beauty of Keyword Luv and could you please go add my keywords to all my comments :)

2) I actually wrote a post about this except the agents here were intentionally making the pictures postage stamp size. I guess the idea was to entice the buyer to want to visit in order to really get a good look at the home. It still amazes me buyers still have to ask for pictures when you can buy a digital camera for $100.00.

Taking photos of listings is such an important part of what we do; it just blows my mind when I see agents with listings that don't have pictures, or have blurry ones everywhere.

Reminds me of Gwen Banta and Chris Griffiths' posts on AG. I guess down-sizing includes the grey matter behind the eye of the camera....

**Joeu00c2u00b4s last blog post..May Home Sales Drop</abbr></abbr>

A program by the name of "Irfan View" should take care of the fuzzy s when resizing your photographs. My local mls has also gone with a standard size photo which has advantages, however my camera like your takes photos way to big. At any rate try "Irfan View" it's a simple to use free program for resizing photos.

I wonder if realtor's know that good pictures and a lot of them are what's going to get the house sold. Who looks at bad quality pictures? I don't

Simple stupid, Jay, it's simple stupid...

Over on the seattlebubble.com forum, there is a really entertaining thread there called "Detrimental Listing Photos." I suggest scrolling through the pages of that thread for a good laugh:

http://seattlebubble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&a...;...

In my opinion, I wouldn't crop the right side as much. I know when I'm looking for houses, I'd like to see a little space around the house.

The problem is not the quality although it could be but if you're using the built in camera on your phone just try to get a good stance so you wont get a blurry photo. A digital camera would help a lot.

You are just getting picky now Jay... you asked for more photos... you didnt specify size ;-)

**Dean Ouelletteu00c2u00b4s last blog post..tempe-edgewater-condo-101-pool.jpg</abbr></abbr>

Come to think of it, I don't remember taking an aptitude test when I a) got licensed, b) joined my brokerage, c) joined the board.

**Jon Griffithu00c2u00b4s last blog post..The Effects of a Short Sale</abbr></abbr>

Yep. I had a reader contact me today asking me to chastise Realtors in my market for their inability to take good pictures. :)

There oughta be a wall of shame for Realtors' bad pictures ... in each local market ...

Hey Jay, Just a quick question.... do you do your own pictures or do you hire somebody? Love the blog ;)

**Brantford Real Estateu00c2u00b4s last blog post..Get a Pre-Approved Mortgage for that Brantford Home</abbr></abbr>

I agree with you whole heartedly. I wasn't all that thrilled with the pictures that my agent took of our house, much less the brochure. Since we are semi-DIY with the listing, I took my own photos, created a whole new brochure, and my own website www.3214hearthfire.com . You know what? Suddenly we started getting more showings!

I've seen that before too, Jay.

In the past when I've come across those types of images, it's because someone used the built-in "camera" on a phone/BlackBerry/SmartPhone... because, you know, why spend $200.00 on a camera if there's one built in to your phone? Less to carry!

Personally, I've found that the best compromise between quick loading image and a quality image is to use Photoshop to optimize the photos for the web at 560x375 pixels. The file is about 15% of the size of the original 3.5 -4 MB file that comes out of my camera, it loads much quicker, and makes a nice-sized image for display on just about any website.

I love when MLS photos are taken with cell phone cameras. Maybe they're going for a very understated effect?

I used Irfanview in the past. Free and simple. Now I use Picasa from Google which for the novice like me does wonders on some of my photos.

If I used something like Photoshop it would be too easy to clean up pictures more than I should.

I think the technology isn't the issue. It is laziness. I have went back plenty of times because the image I saw on the camera screen hid some stuff that popped out when it was on the computer screen. Or maybe it wasn't as clear as I thought.

You would think that these agents would run out of clients but it won't happen. There are always more clients.

**Mike Rohrigu00c2u00b4s last blog post..Names and Naming Stuff</abbr></abbr>