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Those are probably the best pictures that I have seen on a house for sale. Nice job!
If you download the photo and check the EXIF data, it shows that the shot was taken at wide-angle with a 2005 Nikon D70s camera. That's a pretty pricey model if you're not a pro or serious amateur (street price $1100 new, apparently), but a quick survey on DP Review finds many wide-angle cameras under $400 that are rated highly enough to suit this purpose, I think.
I feel the more pictures the better IF they are good ones! I don't want to see your flower arrangement on the table I want to see your home, every room of it and the front and back yard.As a buyer however a picture that is to dark to see anything does me no good at all. It is very important to me to see all I can because I live in a different state than where I am planning on buying. If you don't have pictures I pass the house by because it tells me nothing.
The thing that really gets to me is if you have a Realtor who doesn't post pictures of your home on Realtor.com then they should post pictures of your home on their web site. If they don't do that they are not doing their job for you as far as I am concerned and to me they are not that interested in selling a home IMHO.
I personally like photos. I and probably most people wanted to see the kitchen before I would even think about looking at the house. I hate when Realtors leave that picture out. I also want to see the bathrooms or finished basement and the backyard and of course the family room. I also like the ones but you don't see it too often that shows the back of the house from the back yard. I look at the pictures of the bedrooms but to be honest there are a lot of them that are showcasing a piece of furniture oppose the room.
Also, my main concern is with the family room, kitchen and size of bedrooms, it frustrates me when these size dimensions are not included with listing. Pictures give me an idea if I am interested but if the size isn't there than why waste anyone's time looking at the home. You can have a 1500 sq ft. home that utilizes the room well or a 2200 sq ft. home that is chopped and doesn't appear bigger.
So I would say yes to more well taken photo's. I think it really gives an idea if someone wants to see it.
Oh, I remember the day when the realtor would pull listings off their computer with only the picture of the front of the house (if you were lucky) and it sounded so good on paper and when you went to the house it was a big let down.
Realtor.com just updated their site to allow for MORE photos - 25! My question is for Non-Agents:
What do you think about all the extra photos? Is it a case of "you can never have too many photos"? Or do you find having to look at Set 1, Set 2, and Set 3 a pain? Would you rather just look at one page of photos and be done with it?
I'm really torn. I've added extra photos (about 10-12) on my Realtor.com listings, but I'm not sure if that's too many or not enough?
Opinions please! I want to give the audience what they want.
I think Quality is still better than Quantity.
My house was on the market for no more than 24 hours, the buyer was looking to buy a house in my area, saw the house on MLS and it was sold after he look through the pics.
My agent hired a prof. photographer to take the pics as part of his service. We have 7 showing in less than 24 hours and afetr the house was conditional sold, my agent told me that we have buyers waitting inline to buy the house
The house show 100 times better in pics:
Image gallery (http://tours.advirtours.com/tours/10/66/106602/images/gallery.html - broken link)
You can see that the photos were taking by a prof. photographer. He used the correct angles and so got the floor and ceilings into the shot as well as the entire room.
The photos are excellent and I loved the house!!!
What I can't stand is a bunch of pics of the outside and no interior shots. I always dismiss the ones without interior shots as to me that is a dead giveaway that the inside is a mess or better yet, how about the pictures of house with the kitchens and the sink piled high with dirty dishes or beer bottles littering the counter? Those houses do not get my time at all.
So more pics but quality ones please.
Pam
I like to see a lot of good pictures but mostly of entire rooms and definitely including some of the back yard, too. I dislike pictures of small details (like a single flower in a garden) that are more artsy and not helpful in assisting me to envision the property.
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I want to give the audience what they want. 
