Vancouver BC Real Estate Photography

" Did you know that taking real estate photography yourself with a point and shoot camera is difficult and impossible to achieve excellent balanced exposure photos? We can help to provide results!."


An example of a full range exposure photo of Real Estate

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About Real Estate

About our Real Estate Photography:

  • Located in Vancouver, BC, we help realtors, residential and commercial builders, rental apartments and suites, construction companies, and stage consultants take top of the line quality photos, 360 Virtual Tour of Real Estate, and videos tours of interior and exterior architecture.

Differences

  • We distinguish ourselves from other companies by focusing on handcrafted manual post processing, including manual settings on photo shoot. None of these are automated.

Taking photos yourself versus professional

  • Taking photos yourself using a point and shoot camera will not achieve lifelike architectural looks and will not achieve proper exposures. Using the flash with a point and shoot camera will make the photo look even worse - all together, turning away potential buyers.
    • We can help achieve a balanced exposure brightness results for you, composing beautiful architectural photos using state of the art software and hardware equipment, so that potential buyers would not be turned away by poor looking photos.

Applications of our Real Estate Photography:

  • Our interior and exterior architectural photography service is well suited for Real Estate residential and commercial environments.
  • We help Realtors sell their properties easier by having attractive and clear looking property photos on their website.
  • Our 360 Panorama Virtual Tour services is an excellent way to complement Real Estate Photography.

Equipments and processes used:

  • We use professional photography equipment to take clear and sharp photos of Real Estate homes and commercial buildings.
  • Well composed position is taken into account in our photography in the property. All our shots are on manual mode - every single component on manual mode - not automatic mode - to ensure the highest quality and control over our photography. This includes post processing where the photos are manually retouched, not by automation.
  • The photos are retouched by having it's contrast, exposure, color and lighting corrected.

Areas Served:

  • We serve multiple areas of Real Estate Photography in the Lower Mainland area, including Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Delta, Richmond, Surrey, Coquitlam, Burnaby, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam BC, etc.

Our services:

  • Our services are customed made to every realtor as each realtor wants a different combination of services.
  • We provide many options for Realtors to showcase the photos and videos by either having our multimedia located on their website, or by having us hosting the multimedia on their behalf - linking the MLS to the property webpage we host. We host the property's webpage complimentary and is free of charge and life-time as part of the photography/video packages.
  • When we host the property webpage for Realtors, we also provide, if requested, a Google Analytics Report to determine how many visitors visit the property webpage, where they come from (i.e.: from Realtor.ca or MLS), the bounce rate, how long they stay on the webpage to view the information, etc. This feature is complimentary to all customers and is an excellent way to guage the effectiveness of advertising of the home.

See-Thru-Window (tm) technique

  • Our still photos allows users to see through the window to look outside clearly from inside the property, without over-exposed windows. We offer this as complimentary and free of charge to all customers.

High Definition Video Tour with Dolly Movement

  • New in 2012, we feature camera dolly movements, giving viewers a dynamic and exciting viewing experience on a smooth gliding movement. Visit the Video Tour subpage for some examples.
  • The video tour is provided as Full 1080P High Definition Footage format, as well as web-ready format to be used on the Realtor's website (or YouTube format ready for social media).
  • Our video tours consists of camera vertical and horizontal panning movements on a stationary point, in addition to dolly gliding movements.
  • Our videos are not slideshow type style - they are real movement videos.

Cloudy Weather?

We continue to operate our photo shoot of houses in cloudy weather. We cannot predict the weather forecast which is always subjected to change. Our difference between ourselves and our competitors, is that we can post process the photos so that we can turn a grey cloudy sky into a nice blue sunny sky.

 

 

 

" We normally complete the full project within the same day
of photo shoot. "

 

Winter Times and Night Photography

Because of shortened daylight hours during Winter times,
it is possible to do still photography during night time
for flexibility in scheduling. Taking photos at night will
also bring a whole new dimension in looks in
Real Estate Photography.

 

Still Photos

Still Photos of Real Estate and realtor portrait shots

Our finished results includes color, lighting, contrast, & exposure adjustments. We ensure that there is appropriate lighting in the house and pictures shot in a wide angle view composition. View more still photos on the still photography page.

 

 

Realtor Portrait Shots

Using Green Screen technology and with the realtor's professional style poses and outfit clothing, we can change to a variety of different backgrounds to suit the professional state. Please visit our Green Screen Photography page for further details.

 

 

360 Virtual & Videos


Example of Real Estate 360 Tours for dedicated property webpages


Interactive Virtual Tour: Use your mouse to Pan the image LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN for 360 degree motion.


360 Exterior

 


360 Living Room

 


360 Master Bedroom


360 Grand Kitchen

360 Upper Atrium

360 Theatre Room

 

 


360 Tour of Kitchen

360 Tour of Kitchen-Living Room

 


360 Tour of Bedroom

 


360 Tour of Living Room

 


360 Tour of Bedroom

 


360 Tour of Bedroom


360 Tour of Atrium

 


360 Tour of Backyard

 


360 Tour of Living Room Condo

 


360 Tour of Upstairs

 

   
   
   


HD Video Tour of European Style Home in Surrey, BC

 


HD Video Tour of a home in New Westiminster, BC



HD Video Tour of a luxury home with Dolly Camera Movement


HD Video Tour of a luxury home with Dolly Camera Movement in Tsawwassen, BC


HD Video Tour of a waterfront view home in Surrey, BC near White Rock, BC

 


Narrated with subtitle HD Video Tour - presenting a home in Surrey, BC

 


HD Video Tour of a home in Cloverdale, BC

 


Video tour of a large ranch acrage in South Surrey, BC

 

 

For Dolly Camera Movement examples, click here for the Real Estate Video Tour page.

Visit more Real Estate video examples at our Youtube Page at http://www.youtube.com/ivanchanphotography

View more 360 Virtual Tour of Real Estate


View more examples of 360 Virtual Tour environments

 

360 Tour Hotspots

Narrated Virtual Tour with Hotspots

An enhancement to our 360 Virtual Tour is having a narrated voiceover while the user interacts with the 360 Virtual Tour environment in the Real Estate Property. This is also known as a virtual tour guide, where the user looks around the environment clicking points of interests or hotspots, which in turns shows a popup informational dialog describing that particular part. The tour pages can also have repeated looping instrument music to give the tours a more enjoyable experience.

For example, when a user clicks on a hotspot on the gas countertop stove, it shows a pop up description of what the stove's details is, as well as the manufacturer of the stove, all with optional voice narrated, reading out that pop up description.

This feature also works very well for general basis 360 Virtual Tour environments with hotspots descriptions.

After clicking on the play button below, please give a moment while the Flash file is being downloaded.

 

See-Thru-Window

See-Thru-Window (tm) Technique

Normally it is difficult or impossible to take one shot of the interior to be able to view both inside and outside of the property. Our indoor architectural photography features full clear view of the window from the inside to outside, without the overexposure effect from the window. This provides realism and details of the photos, and allows clients to see how the inside looks like, as well as how the outside of the window view look like.

Unlike other competitors, we provide See-Thru-Window (TM) technique free of charge and complimentary to all customers for all the photos in post processing.

 

Should there be inclement weather issues such as cloudy skies, we can change that cloudy grey sky into a nice blue color sky.

 



We check our images against the histogram - during photo taking, and during post-processing, to ensure our images are exposure and contrast well balanced - not too dark, not too bright.

 

 

Marketing

QR and NFC Mobile Informational Guided Tour

Combining interactive photography and video tours with web design and programming, we can assist realtors in their marketing efforts in selling the properties by leveraging the use of smartphone mobile technology and QR and NFC technologies.

How it works is a sign with a QR Code and NFC Tag is placed at a particular point of interest such as a fireplace or an appliance. Buyers scan the QR Code or prox the NFC tag and the smartphone will bring up a webpage showing detail information about the appliance or more information on that particular point of interest.

This webpage can also include interactive photography and videos such as still photos, voice narrated guide reading out-loud the words, displaying video or instructional video of that appliance/area, 360 Virtual Tour of that area, etc.

 

 

Real Estate Brochures

We do graphic design to make physical Real Estate Brochures for realtors to showcase the properties they are selling in paper form. The brochure contains the MLS Number, Description of the properties, Sample photos of the house, and a link to our hosted multimedia webpage. We can also incorporate a 2D QR Barcode onto the brochure so that customers with a smartphone can scan the code and directly link them to the multimedia website.

A paper form brochure is an excellent way to give potential buyers "a take-home" item from the property.