It’s probably not that dark in this room, but the bright light coming in the window and the white blinds have thrown off the camera’s light meter, causing the camera to think the room is brighter than it actually is, and thereby underexposing it. The same thing fooled the camera into not firing a flash to illuminate the room a little more. This can be avoided by setting the camera to fire the flash with every shot, instead of automatically. Now, the same can’t be said for the REALTOR®, who should have first of all turned the lights on, and second, realized that this was a bad shot after reviewing it on the camera’s LCD screen.
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A nice scary one for Hallowe’en! Picture is crooked/off centre, TV is on, poor composition too. Try and shoot rooms at an angle, rather than having your lens pointed perpendicular to the wall. It adds depth perception. And avoid shooting photos at night, they always look too dark.
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Distress Sale: Can't Pay The Hyrdo Bill
This beauty comes courtesy of reader Dara Sklar of RealtySupport.ca. As a provider of marketing services for REALTORS®, she has a hate-on for bad MLS photos as much as I do. This photo could have been improved by simply turning on some lights or using proper camera lighting.
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Again I’d like to point out my desire to smack the people at the digital camera manufacturers who decided that the “date stamp” setting should be set to “on” when the cameras are shipped. Most people don’t bother to learn how to turn it off, and it looks awful. It’s also redundant; all digital camera files are date-stamped in the jpeg file’s metadata (along with info like shutter speed, aperature, focal length, etc), which doesn’t show up in the photo.
Also, this isn’t a very good shot of the bathroom. Dark, poorly composed, and too tight an angle. Wide-angle lenses are your friend.
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Poor composition and lack of lighting has ruined this photo!
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Another Day, another violation of Ayres Directive #1. The REALTOR® managed to capture most of the bathroom by standing back, but with a wide-angle lens, he or she would be able to do that without including the walls and doorway in the frame.
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Nearly every home has a room like this. A place in the house where you put everything that really doesn’t fit anywhere else. In this case, we’ve got music, fitness, and extra furniture, it appears. Th first problem with this photo is that it’s too dark. We also have no idea how big or small this room is, and it’s not very well composed. Sometimes, I’ll have a listing where every other room in the house looks perfect, but there’s one that just isn’t right. I usually leave that room out, or wait until the owner rearranges it after my suggestions.
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Gee, how about turning some lights on?
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A Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Besides being crooked and kind of grainy, this photo suffers from too much light coming in from the window in the other room. It’s fooling the camera’s light meter once again, underexposing this picture and making it dark. Opening those curtains on the right and/or turning on some lights would have helped immensely.
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This dark and dreary image could have been improved greatly simply by standing in the opposite corner, and shooting in the same direction as that beautiful natural light coming in the windows. Shooting towards it fools your camera into thinking the scene is brighter than it actually is, resulting in an underexposed photo.
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