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Recently, Joseph and I shot a friends house they have just sold. Its amazing! No more parties though!

Here are the best of mine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roowills/

your house is absolutely gorgeous!

(01-05-2010 02:40 PM)aphotography Wrote: [ -> ]your house is absolutely gorgeous!

Haha, It's a friend of ours house, Heres one of mine, i'll put the others up later.

Very nice house!!!

pretty nice pictures too!

few tips

1. Lighting: You guys took the shot a bit too late, shooting house at dusk can be a little tricky to get it right, there is a golden period just before the sun goes down to take your shots, this period normally last around 5-10minutes. During the period, you will get a good mix of ambient + external/internal lights from the house, so you can perfectly expose your exterior and still keep the interior or other bright part of the house perfectly exposed.

2. Angles: The verticals of the house is not straight. If you have a chance to shoot a house again in the future, make sure that the verticals are straight and not distorted, this will be very apparent if you guys used a UWA lens. Shooting house is different from shooting cars, there is no crazy low angle shots, but all the perspective needs to align with each other. It will help if you guys stood on a small ladder or chair to get the angles right.

Other than that I think you guys did a good job if this is your first house shoot, the composition is good, but try to avoid chopping off bits of the house.

Just my small recommendation

Thanks for that Andy, Defo want to try some more house shots, Will remember that!

Just want to add - you can fix barrel distortion in PS quite easily.

nice shots guys!
House photography may look simple but it's actually quite tricky!
Great tips from Andy (DRAW)! He does lots of commercial house photography every week.

Thanks for sharing the tips, Andy. It not as easy as one would like to believe.
vw