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It really makes the most difference for certain kinds of listings. Yours is the kind that benefits from pro photos. My listing and most of the ones I’ve booked don’t need pro photos, lol.
When I was choosing a place for my destination birthday in 2017 the video that the listing had sold me on it compared to similar properties.
Lots of good advice here. A good friend with a much higher end property than mine invested in professional photography. She feels it was worth every dime.
My property is not high end but safe, clean & comfortable. I too am considering options for updating my photos do I’m glad to see this thread.
My neighbor took great pictures with her IPad. It was all about good lighting & composition.
Btw:when I see a listing eith excessive HDR photos I wonder what they are trying to hide or distract me from seeing.
Here is the same pic taken with my iPhone and one taken by professional with 20mm. I don’t think it distorts the size, just shows all of the room.
And you need to have HORIZONTAL pix to display well on Air’s website.
Good point about being horizontal. In the pics above, I wanted to show the high windows, so had no choice when I used my iPhone to have it vertical. Same with bunk beds. Just wanted to show the whole bed. But the professional could show the entire room. They make look a bit distorted in size, but we’ve had several comments that the house is better than the pics.
This is a worthwhile goal.
This first one of the living room with the fireplace does look distorted. The pro’s photo makes the room look at least twice as big as the first photo. I haven’t been there so I don’t know which is correct, but they do look like two wholly different sized rooms. If I booked on the 2nd picture and got the 1st picture, I would definitely feel surprised.
Here’s something to check. In the first photo the distance between the couch in front of the window looks to be about 4 or 5 feet, but in the second photo the distance looks to be about 10 or 12 feet. I would measure the actual distance to see which photo is a better represenative of the actual size of the room.
The couch is actually two futons put together. It is 11ft long. I believe the “real” feeling you get when you enter is more toward the pro pic, but the pro pici does make it a little bigger. The size of the room from fireplace to end of dining room at the sliding door is 35’. Note the clock. It is roundish. If it was oval it would be distorted more. I’ve seen photos of places where they use a smaller mm yet and the clocks are totally oval.
That’s a big room. I think your pro pictures are a good move.
You must have really different visual perception than I do. To me, they are different views of the same space, and both them show the same amount of space.
But then I’ve been a photographer since age 8 (got my first SLR when I was 12 with my own money), and been using wide angle lenses for 60 years. I spent a whole summer when I was in high school playing around with architectural photography when a family friend loaned me an old view camera with a wide angle lens so I could play around with distortion correction.
Other folks have said the same thing about wide angle photos, and I don’t get it. Several photographer friends agree with me, so it must be the way untrained eyes perceive wide angle pix.
Those eyes belong to our potential guests.
