Real Estate Photography Course

■ AT A GLANCE - 7 hours of hands on shooting in stylish display homes or holiday accommodation. Learning the essential tips & tricks in lighting & composition and the camera gear and settings to take professional real estate photographs. 

■ TO UPSKILL - Great photographs of real estate & architecture and the ability to turn a drab, unappealing property into something attractive for prospective buyers adds value to the property and enhances your business professionalism.

■ COMPREHENSIVE - this Real Estate photography course provides a clear path for the intermediate to advanced photographer, allowing you to gain the specialist skills in order to become a capable, even expert, real estate and architectural photographer.

■ EXTENSIVE CONTENT - How to photograph architectural exteriors and interiors. Shooting in different locations, camera and lens tuition, flash gun techniques and shooting under a wide range of difficult lighting conditions. Composition tips and lighting techniques throughout. We also cover prepping the property and some useful props.

■ BUSINESS FOCUSED - Start a small or freelance photography business, work part time or turn your hobby and passion into a professional craft. The perfect photography course for real estate agents, architects, interior designers and travellers who love photographing real estate & architecture.

■ BETTER TRAVEL IMAGES - for travellers, lovers of fine architecture and interesting accommodation - you gain the skills to bring back evocative, memorable images of places you have stayed or visited.

■ EFFICIENT WORKFLOW -  'hands on' shooting in stylish display homes & /or holiday accommodation. Learning the essential tips & tricks in lighting & composition and the camera gear and settings to take professional real estate photographs. 

■ DECLUTTER & ATTENTION TO DETAIL - are bench tops clear, rubbish bins out of sight, cushions fluffed up, toilet paper & brushes gone, bed lamps with working bulbs, range hood light on, blinds even, shooting at the right time of day, maybe an evening shoot is needed etc.

■ COMPOSITION - the  big three -Verticals, horizontal lines and leading lines. Leading lines of kitchen benches, architraves and /or skirting boards. Is the furniture in the room balanced? Are you shooting asymmetrical or symmetrical? Is the viewpoint to high?

■ LIGHTING - balancing the light, Interiors & exteriors, bracketing, flash or no flash, continuous, the direction & intensity of the light, the time of day and weather conditions.

■ EQUIPMENT & SETTINGS - the best cameras and lenses, settings such as aperture priority, shooting RAW, low ISO settings, bracketing, exposure compensation, balancing interior and exterior light, white balance, colour profiling, tripods, reflectors, flashes, colour cast, lighting corners, wireless, HDR, filters. Images taken on the course can be used for you own promotional purposes.

■ It is essential to have some background photography knowledge in knowing your camera's buttons and functions. If you are new to photography, our Beginners Course is beneficial for learning the basics of camera handling. 

■ Any full or cropped frame DSLR camera or mirrorless camera is ideal. Full frame cameras with their bigger sensors will give better results in certain situations.

■ A wide angle lens eg. 16-35mm (on a full frame camera) or 10-22mm (on a cropped sensor camera); a telephoto lens eg. 70-300mm to pull in the views; a mid range lens eg. 24-105mm for architectural or detail shots.

■ An external on-camera flash unit is needed - your camera's in-built flash will not be powerful enough for lighting internal spaces.

■ A sturdy tripod - the taller the better; 1.8m is ideal. A ball, swivel head is much easier that levers. Snap release cam lock legs are ideal.

■ We recommend you have a quality smartphone with at least one optical wide angle lens. New smartphones now have wide angle optical lenses. Perfect for shooting real estate on the fly such as a quick shoot of a rental property. For older smartphones you can get optical wide angle lenses which attach to the phone.

■ Inclusions - Instruction from professional photographer Andrew Thomasson / Focus 10 photography. Detailed notes, accessory shopping advice, personal assessment and critique of your portfolio.

■ Exclusions - Food and beverages.

■ Complimentary Wildlife or Smartphone Photo course with every booking

Time	10am to 5pm
Location	226 Glenmore Rd, Paddington NSW( 10am)
Meeting Point	Bake Bar cafe - Paddington (at outside tables at 10am)

Why do this Real Estate and Architecture course?
■ Integrity: compiled by working professional real estate & architectural photographers Andrew Thomasson & Serena Pearce. We are authoritative, consummate professionals in both shooting and teaching real estate & architectural photography - NOT 'armchair' experts.

■ Experience: Andrew & Serena have trained over 1500 students through their one and two day Real Estate & Architectural Photography courses running throughout Australia. They are also working professional real estate & architectural photographers shooting residential and commercial throughout Australia.

■ Published authors: Andrew & Serena are published authors of the 257 page Online Real Estate & Architecture course which has sold in the hundreds around Australia & worldwide since 1917.

■ Suitable for those with a basic camera skills: a clear path for those knowing the basics of camera handling through to the advanced photographer allowing you to gain the specialist skills in order to become a capable, even expert, real estate photographer. Start a small or freelance photography business, work part time or turn your hobby and passion into a professional craft.

■ It's convenient and cost effective: you do not have to travel and can do the course from home and around your local neighbourhood.

■ Professional yet fun: our course is delivered and taught in a light hearted and easy going format, in a non intimidating, relaxed manner and free of technical jargon.

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What is the difference between the 1 and the 2 day course?
■ The one day course does not cover Lightroom Classic post production editing, drones in more depth, 360 degree camera, pricing structures and marketing tips.

■ The one day course is for those photographers who have a certain camera skills set and one day is enough for them.

■ The 2 day course difference -If you know nothing about post production & want to learn more about the marketing side , want to learn more about drone photography, 360 degree cameras, floor plans, pricing structures and marketing tips then the 2 day course is more suitable for most people.

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Who enrols on the one day course?
■ Anyone with a basic understanding of how your camera works. You need to have some background photography knowledge in knowing your cameras buttons and functions. If you are an absolute beginner then do our Beginners online or on location course first.

■ People who want to become a proficient real estate and architectural photographer.

■ People who want to earn money as a freelance photographer.

■ Experienced photographers who want to learn new skills.

■ Amateur photographers who want to take better real estate and architecture photography photos.

■ This is the perfect photography course for any person to learn for fun and profit - whether you are a real estate agent, architect, designer, traveller, want a full career or just a part time job.

■ This course is very detailed with easy to understand, step by step procedures to teach you every facet of camera handling, composition, lighting and a myriad of other techniques to hone your skills in the genre of real estate & architectural photography.

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What camera gear & equipment do I need & do you rent gear?
■ Any full or cropped frame DSLR camera or mirrorless camera is ideal. Full frame cameras with their bigger sensors will give better results in certain situations (eg. posters and billboards) You could also do this course with a quality smartphone with an ultra wide angle lens

■ A wide angle lens eg. 16-35mm (on a full frame camera) or a 10-22mm (or equivalent on a cropped sensor camera); a telephoto lens eg. 70-300mm to pull in the views; a mid range lens eg 24-105mm for architectural or detail shots.

■ An external on-camera flash unit is needed - your camera's in-built flash will not be powerful enough for lighting internal spaces. We rent Speedlite flashes For $20 if you do not have one.

■ A sturdy tripod - the taller the better; 1.8m is ideal.

■ A quality smartphone can produce great results and is a good back up. You have to use apps on certain smartphones so you can shoot RAW and at low ISO's. As in all real estate photography- a tripod is essential. New smartphones now have wide angle optical lenses. For older smartphones you can get optical wide angle lenses which attach to the phone.

■ We rent Nikon DLSR cameras with a wide angle 12-24mm lens for $50 for the 1 day course. A full rental package including the camera, 3 lenses, flash and tripod is $70.

■ Lexar 32GB SD cards are available for purchase for $25 or bring your own.

■ Before or after booking a course we have a suggested equipment list. This is a great guide to the best gear for real estate photography to meet your budget and expectations.

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Terms & Conditions when booking this course
Payments
Paying for your course in full upon booking will confirm your attendance. Places are limited on all courses.

Refunds
We reserve the right to cancel and reschedule any course, due to inadequate enrolment, bad weather, instructor illness, an 'act of God' or a force majeure such as a pandemic. As an example, a photography course has to be cancelled or deferred to another date and time due to Covid 19 border closures and lockdowns which is beyond the control of Focus 10 Pty Ltd and other related parties. We also reserve the right to cancel any course if there is insufficient demand, especially if it means that our costs would be higher than our income. Please therefore do not leave it until the last few weeks if you are interested in a particular date, as you may find that it has been cancelled. As our costs for each training event remain the same no matter how many delegates attend, like any pre-booked tickets for the theatre, concert, flights etc, we are unable to give a full refund in the event of non-attendance, regardless of the circumstances. If withdrawal occurs within the 14 days before the course starts we will try to put you on an alternative date if places are available. Please note that we cannot be liable for any other costs incurred by yourself, so please check with us before booking any non-refundable accommodation or transport.

Workshop Photography:
We reserve the right to take photographic, (both still and video) records of any of our workshops/courses which may be used for promotional purposes, submissions, advertising and records. We grant permission for participants to use any images captured by them during this workshop for self-promotion only. Participants may not make any financial gain from any images captured during this workshop/course.

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Why do you have two different meeting point locations for this course?
■ We have the meeting point of Gusto cafe (now the Bake Bar cafe at 226 Glenmore Rd) The meeting time is 10am )

If you are running late, please send us an SMS message to 0407 278 809 to let us know. The first house we shoot at is 5o metres away

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Does the course offer further opportunities in this field?
■ Yes - once you have learnt the specific set of skills of real estate photography you can use this knowledge to pursue other related photographic genres. Use these new found skills to photograph boats, interior design elements, products for building companies, landscape design and architecture and commercial fit outs, product photography ... to name a few. These skills also make you a better people and product photographer.

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Can I bundle or package the 1 day course with the 'Online' Real Estate & Architecture course?
■ Yes- we offer a 10% discount when you opt to purchase both the 'Online' Real Estate Architectural course ($690) and this one day 'on location' course ($390) as a 'bundle'

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Focus 10 runs fantastic, informative and always fun courses and tours. I have done 4 of them now - Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands, 3801 Steam train and the most recent to Jervis Bay. Always a laugh and with excellent like minded, fellow photographers!

--Sean Dudding | product owner

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Focus 10 was out main photographer at all our corporate functions at Tyco when I was on Australia. We have recently purchased the
96o page Complete Professional Photography Course that Andrew co-authored with Code Lime Photography. Its a brilliant resource manual on everything photographic and our company is finding it useful.

-- John Newbury |

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Thanks for the feedback and I am loving your photos. We look forward to catching up again when you are next in Byron Bay

--Sarah Gasparre / real estate photographer

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Great to meet you. Christie and I love your work. We think that the 4 attached, at this phase of our project would fit well and we would be keen to see if any of these would be able to be blown up to a large wall art format.

--Kate Hopwood | Head of Design

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"I just wanted to say that I really loved this weekend course and learnt a great deal. I appreciate you both sharing your photography knowledge and patience with us. Serena and Andrew were great instructors and injected lots of fun but at the same time kept the course at a great pace and ensured we all got something valuable out of it. I am really looking forward to the Wildflowers and Wilderness weekend in September!"

--Ray Berry / Manager

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I was Andrew's wedding assistant for quite a few years and he was always generous with his time and expertise. So thank you! It seems a lifetime ago we shot that wedding at Gunners Barracks in this nasty Covid 19 era.

-- Caragh Lyons | Solutions Architect

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"Great beginners photo course Andrew. Thanks very much for helping me find my passion for photography again. I received lots of one and one attention. Cool seagull shoot with chips from Pier 4 and great you knew most of the stall holders in the Rocks market. I loved this course and learnt so much. I will be telling all my friends"

--Annie Prior

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I want to thank you very much for the course a last Saturday. It was very easy to learn through this sort of experience. The models were gorgeous! I will be confident enough to do a small wedding and the course manual is incredibly detailed. Thanks.

--Sam Khoudair / wedding photographer

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