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This is a question/comment about online photo ads and the way photos are being digitally processed.
When I look at sites like zillow and realtor as a consumer, things like the flooring inthe images are actually turning me off. I don’t know if I should ignore my impressions because the sight would be different in real life, or just pass over a lot of listings because the image is accurate.
For example, a lot of flooring looks like wood that is dark red in color and highly reflective with almost white reflections in front of windows or under ceiling fixtures or can lights. The floors are colored like old fashioned cherry or mahogany wood furniture but super shiny in addition.
As someone who thinks floors should be subdued and not dominate the room design, I am turned off by the pictures. BUT maybe this is a trick of photography like editing phone pics to be “warmer” etc.
What do you listing agents say. Is this just a photo style? Are floors actually more subdued?
Don't believe or rely on anything you see in real estate ads. The pictures are fake. It's called virtual staging where they show you what the place could look like after you sink money into rehab. Other pictures are taken with special lenses that make everything look bigger. Any real pictures are enhanced.
If you see anything in an ad that fits your parameters, go see it, and look it over carefully.
Do your due diligence and verify anything you are "told" by anybody about the property.
This is a question/comment about online photo ads and the way photos are being digitally processed.
When I look at sites like zillow and realtor as a consumer, things like the flooring inthe images are actually turning me off. I don’t know if I should ignore my impressions because the sight would be different in real life, or just pass over a lot of listings because the image is accurate.
For example, a lot of flooring looks like wood that is dark red in color and highly reflective with almost white reflections in front of windows or under ceiling fixtures or can lights. The floors are colored like old fashioned cherry or mahogany wood furniture but super shiny in addition.
As someone who thinks floors should be subdued and not dominate the room design, I am turned off by the pictures. BUT maybe this is a trick of photography like editing phone pics to be “warmer” etc.
What do you listing agents say. Is this just a photo style? Are floors actually more subdued?
If you mean the effect of making the paneling in a 70s single-wide look like the hardwood paneling in a rustic hunting lodge, the name of the effect is HDR - or “high dynamic range”.
And yeah - it probably doesn't really look like that in person.
There is only one photographer in my market who does that overly sharp "artistic interpretation" of the actual home. I know for me, I use a photographer who accurately represents the home because having buyers walk into a house and saying it isn't as nice as the photos isn't a good thing to actually sell the house. It needs to look like the house.
With the market sales being off, I am seeing iPhone photos again as I hadn't seen those for a while.
There is only one photographer in my market who does that overly sharp "artistic interpretation" of the actual home.
We have one who makes the grass way too green.
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