Aerial Panorama Photography using Drone Pan

With the help of your DJI drone and the Drone Pan App for iOS or Android, you can create stunning aerial panorama photographs.  Using DronePan with my iOS device and my Phantom 4 Pro I created this test shot near my house, north of Seattle. I set the capture setting to shoot 25 images in JPEG mode. 

Next I took the images into my mac and used the app Hugin to stitch them together to create the panorama. Once I had leveled out the horizon to my liking, I then saved out a TIFF file for the next step in Photoshop. With the help of the Facebook community for the DronePan users group, they suggested that I use a new sky to replace my  grey wash of a sky. 

I then wanted to share my results with the Facebook community using Facebook's new 360 image module. I found the photoshop psd templates provided by Facebook, to create the 2:1 image for their module. 

Below is the image that I created, hosted using the Roundme platform. they have a great set of free and paid tools for 360 photography. I'm really looking forward to creating more of these as our weather gets better. 

Prisma Photo Editing App

Prisma is a very creative and fun mobile image editing app. It can turn your images into a work of art, with it's amazing effects. It will also let you post them to social media or same them locally to your phone's storage. I use it on my iPhone 6S +  and I'm stoked with the results I'm getting.  Here is the developer's site.

Real Estate HDR Photography

One of the best ways to capture an interior Real Estate photo, is the use the HDR exposure bracketing technique, on a DSLR camera. What this allows you to do is to take multiple images with different exposure values that properly allow the best shutter speed for the mid-tones, shadows, and highlights. With the use of a tripod and a timed release of the shutter, you do not need to manual fire it off every time. Instead, set your settings and define the level of bracket exposure then take the series of shots. 

Once you get your images captured, then you must bled them together in a post processing editing application, like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom. There you will define all of your tone mapping setting and fine tune the exposure to get the perfect image. Ideally this will help for taking interior locations with bright windows, because the light meter on the DSLR isn't smart enough to not under exposure the rest of your scene when it's compensating for the amount of light coming in through the windows. 

Take a look at a few examples below and on the Real Estate page. 

Snapseed mobile image editing

One of my favorite mobile Image editors is googles snapseed. I've been using this app for quite a long time and I'm very happy with the results I get it. It has a lot of features that you can tune to get the image to look exactly the way you want it. They constantly keep updating it and adding new features so it's a really good tool to help you make the best out your images. 

Twilight Real Estate photography

A lot of people expect most of the real estate listings to have a lot of daytime photos and interior but one of the more unique views are the shots that are taken at dusk in the evening. This view of your home will make your listing stand out even more than your competitors and it will get your listing up to $20,000 more in the Seattle market. One thing that I do that makes the twilight real estate photography stand out from the normal images that you see on most of the listings is using a high dynamic range composition of shadows mid tones and highlights to capture the best exposure. Here are a couple examples of high dynamic range twilight real estate photography.