Why use HDR Real Estate Photography for your property?
What Is HDR Real Estate Photography?
HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a kind of photography that allows us to capture a wide range of lighting to get stunning real estate images. It has power that helps photographers to deal with the difference between the lightest light and the darkest dark on the picture.
Normally we take brackets of 3-5 exposures and blend them together to make the final photo.
Real estate HDR photography works best with interior photography and outdoor space.
Why Use HDR Real Estate Photography?
Photographers choose to use HDR real estate photography for many reasons:
- First of all, It allows you to capture all the details and features of the property with stunning colors.
- Next, thanks to using 3-5 different exposure with different lighting, we can get the realistic results as homebuyers wish.
- This photography is easy to manage. Even a newbie photographer can do it with ease. You can use manually setting to take the brackets of photos or you can use auto-bracketing features of the digital camera.
- There are much free software that supports you to merge these exposures together free such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom.
- HDR methods are most often used to balance interior spaces with exterior views for example taking the room picture with windows. It is a technique that works great in real estate and interior photography, as well as exterior architectural photography.
How to Take Pictures for an HDR Effect In-Camera
- When it comes to taking property for listing, you need to bring out most of the details and features and highlight the balance. That’s why we need to take multiple exposures to get enough exposure to balance out bright and dark areas for the final perfect photos.
- It includes underexposed, average exposed, and overexposed shots. That means you need to take at least one that is darker to capture your bright areas at the desired exposure. And finally, take at least one photo that is brighter to capture the darker areas at the desired exposure.
- Moreover, photographers usually take advantage of the natural light of the room to get better images. In case the room is in low light conditions, you can turn on the lighting fixtures to get enough light for the images. I would recommend doing your exposures in one stop increments (-2, -1, +1, +2).
- For starting taking photos with HDR photography, you can choose the camera position and the angles and have some tests to get the best lighting. This way, you will have plenty to pick from when the time comes to layer them.
