Guest Blogger from Redfin Real Estate - Ryan Castillo

6 Ways Twilight Photography Can Make Your Real Estate Listing Shine

If you are looking to take your real estate listing to the next level, consider incorporating twilight photography to complement your professional interior and exterior photos. Twilight photos are pictures of a home that are usually captured around dusk when there are plenty of colors in the sky. They are used to showcase a property by highlighting features like pools, fire pits, views, and even sunsets. They require extensive skill, multiple flash exposures, and a little bit of editing magic to create a beautiful photo of your home.

There are many benefits to adding twilight photography to your list of real estate photos. It gives your listing a premium feel, helps it stand out against the competition, and highlights details of your home that you typically can’t see in the daytime. Most importantly, twilight photography creates a welcoming glow that entices prospective buyers to learn more about your home. So if you’re preparing to sell your house, here are 6 reasons working with a professional twilight photographer can make your real estate listing shine.

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Guest Blogger from Redfin Real Estates - Ryan Castillo

9 Ways Real Estate Drone Photography Can Elevate Your Listing

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so why not let an aerial view tell the whole story? Real estate drone photography has become an increasingly popular tactic to help real estate listings stand out amongst the competition. Because typical listings feature photos taken from the perspective of a person, many unseen details are left to the buyer’s imagination. Drone photography eliminates this problem.

By incorporating aerial photos of your house, you can highlight geographical views, show off your neighborhood, or showcase the scale of your home. Read on to find out how drone photography can take your real estate listing to the next level.

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Produced my first audio Ad for the podcast.

I made my first audio ad for our podcast and the online service that also stores the podcast, "Just Questions." It will be fun to hear with my Western PA accent, if I still have it from living in Virginia for most of my life.

Finally Dropped the First Podcast Show

Yes, me and my business partner finished our first podcast episode over the weekend. I had several technical issues with the recording; which was more about my equipment selection for gathering the audio which lead to having a hiss in the left channel which made the recording unacceptable? My after purchase research to solve the problem, I found it is a typical problem for the cheap audio mixer that I purchased. I found another company brand that after my tests was completely acceptable and without a hiss. My setup was simple, two Shure SM58S microphones, connected to a mixer unit and then directly into my Mac Laptop, where I used Adobe Audition to record the audio. My choice in microphones in Shure because, was because I used them ten years ago in my American Century Theatre podcast called, “Before the Curtain Raises.” That podcast for me lasted one season. The next year, the theater company didn’t hire me as their staff photographer and they kept doing the podcast with other people. I also learned the hard way with my software of choice. I’m an Adobe cloud software user with their complete suit of applications. These last few years I’ve been on a path to learn as much as I can with the applications. I paid for them, I should use them. This project requires that I learn how to edit audio with Adobe Audition, since it’s very similar to Adobe Premiere. If your audio is sub par, then your entire project just plain sucks.That hiss I received from my audio mixer box was only on the left channel which was connected to my microphone and not our guest’s. I learned how to delete that channel, copy my guest channel and make it truly stereo sounding with her voice coming through both left and right channels. I then recorded my questions with my desk setup and dropped them in place on the interviewer tracks. It turned out great. Next time I might need to place a little time before and after my questions to make it sound more natural. The good thing about this project, we entered it into the world of Apple Podcast content. They accepted the podcast with no changes needed in lest then twenty-four hours from the time I submitted the podcast to them. Even our podcast title was accepted.