Archive for December, 2007
Pimp My Listing Photo #2
December 31st, 2007 Pimp My Listing Photo No Comments »
It seems like every shoot is on a terrible deadline and battling the weather forecast. I get called yesterday to shoot this home. I try and contact the home owners and get voice mail, leave a message and never get called back. I follow up this morning and finally get in contact.
Uh-oh, home owner doesn’t want the shoot until Wednesday… home schooling, holiday, dogs, boxes everywhere. Listing agent needs a photo up within 24 hours or MLS fines.
And welcome to New England, but we’ve got a week of garbage weather coming. Today, as in right now, is the day if we want a front shot. I say “I’ll be right over” to do the front, and we’ll do interiors on Wednesday. I arrive and the home owner is G-O-N-E. But somehow three vehicles and a trailer parked on the road remain.
Ugh.
Well this is what I’ve got to work with. The sun will never hit the front of the house, so major shadow issues. We got some sun which is good, but the bright sky and snow cover are dominant. The clouds on the right hand side turned grey and icky within a few minutes of the shot and rolled over the house.
And to be fair, I’m doing favors here. I don’t mind making two trips if I screw up, this is for courtesy.
The Pimpin’ comes in some very simple edits. A high pass sharpening makes the roof shingles and siding snap into focus better.
Slight tweaks correcting to straighten the photo and get the verticals more vertical. You’ll notice it most in the way the tree looks straighter.
The big gains come in dialing up the strength of the mid-tones – the siding brightens but leaves the sky, snow and dark areas untouched. The final touch comes in a scoop of the Skylight filter adding some “happy yellow” tones. Made the letterbox and light fixture pop too.
Was tempting to crop the cars out more, but looked unbalanced and sliced out the sky and lawn a bit much. The front door pulls the eye pretty well I think.
Interested in having your listing photo Pimped? Email me a maximum file size image and I’ll see what I can do. I do email back the edited photo as a max image too. Enjoy!
Best of Reagent Humor 2007
December 31st, 2007 Humor No Comments »
Obviously the blog is dominated by the Bad MLS Photos of the Day, but Ive got a few gems buried in all the excess postage. In the end, these are some of the most fun Ive had on the blog.
DTPMMALF How To Answer AND Get Laid
Zillow Corporate Drownsizing Effort Fails
Never Open A Fridge In An Abandoned HUD Home
Sock Puppet: Point and Counterpoint
Bad MLS Photo of the Day #274
December 31st, 2007 Bad MLS Photo of the Day No Comments »
So…. does it even flush?
Sent in by Debbie Pastori in Sun City West AZ.
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Bad MLS Photo of the Day: Sunday Edition
December 30th, 2007 Bad MLS Photo of the Day No Comments »
Here’s the Sunday Edition of Bad MLS photos. I’d love to see more photos sent in – free link love baby!
The eyes… they follow you everywhere.
Sent in by Vicki Moore.
Well screw this place, I want my dryer on the right.
Sent in by Kirsten Mellinger.
Our contestant has chosen Door C, let see what they won!
Sent in by Kirsten Mellinger.
This was bizarre. It’s a 1.7M listing, and already had three photos of the lake that where beautiful. And then there is this…
Funky border, not straight, unusual distortion…
…luckily there’s a gun to shot the photographer with right there.
This could be your Dream Sequence House.
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Bad MLS Photo of the Day #272
December 28th, 2007 Bad MLS Photo of the Day No Comments »
Don’t these usually come standard?
Sent in by Vicki Moore.
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Watch For Eagle vs Shark
December 26th, 2007 Humor No Comments »
Watch for this odd ball comedy coming from New Zealand sometime soonish. Dont ask me why, but it made me suddenly homesick.
Bad MLS Photo of the Day #271
December 26th, 2007 Bad MLS Photo of the Day No Comments »
Small cramped kitchen built on a 23 degree angle.
Sent in by Vicki Moore.
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Merry Christmas - Elf Bowling 7 1/7
December 24th, 2007 Good Vibes No Comments »
Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas to everyone. Posting will likely be pretty light over the next few days.
I hope you all have a wonderful day, whether you celebrate it, don’t celebrate it, or just nod and smile and grinch your way through it for the sake of appearances. 
Anyway… bored out of your mind? Elf Bowling 7 1/7 has a free 1 hour demo and then just $10 to buy the silly fun. I’m stuck on a score of 278.
Bad MLS Photo of the Day #270
December 24th, 2007 Bad MLS Photo of the Day No Comments »
So… Trash Day? Trash Week?
Sent in by Pam Hoffman.
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