How to Go From Beginner To Pro Real Estate Photographer in 2024! [You need this]

Something I heard recently about real estate… There are 4 million homes nation wide that need to sell. That’s a ton of homes for each one of us in the RE PHOTOGRAPHY space. So just like Eli has said before - we are needed more than ever now than we have been before now.

Thanks for all your videos. I'm starting my own company this year and already have a little foot in the door because my wife is a realtor and has connections. Your videos have helped me a lot. My goal is 10 shoots a week by April of 2024 so I can quit my day job and do this full time. I believe that is totally doable.

Just sharing: 😂 in Vancouver area (Canada) 1 bedroom (very sh… conditions) apartment cost like luxury & most of realtors will pay same price (for photos) for huge house or small unit. Most of sellers don’t even clean houses properly as they know - “Everything will sell here, even if I keep dirty dishes and clothing all around ”. So realtors mainly just need basic photos.

100% agree on everything Eli. Especially offering your services for free when your starting out. To succeed in business (any business) you have to invest in it. Most people relate investing to spending money (on inventory, equipment, marketing, etc)...But there is another thing you can invest with and that is your time...For arguments sake, a typical photo shoot (the way we do it) is a 2 hour investment in time. That includes commute to and from the job, shooting the job, uploading to the editor, reviewing the photos, then getting them out to your client. I'm going out on a limb here, but I would say if you invest 2-4 hours a week of your time in shooting properties at no charge, that you will do much better than investing 100's or even 1,000's in marketing...Once you have several clients and have done this for a year or so, you can go from offering free jobs, to discounted jobs. Then from there you can invest in a couple dozen doughnuts and attend office meetings once a week. This a great way to get in front of an entire office and develop people skills at the same time.

Eli I love your videos man! I have a smaller Real Estate Photography company based out of Texas and I'd love chance to jump on zoom call or something sometime if you ever get a chance. Appreciate your videos and would love some advice.

Do you have your editors deliver directly to your HD Photo Hub or do they deliver to you with some cloud service and you upload from there?

Shout out from Grand Prairie (not granbury), Tx! This was helpful. Thanks!

Eli, Thanks for the videos. I'm afraid you've really messed me up dude! 🤣 I've been shooting flambient for around 10 years. I'm 68 now and getting slower. Getting sooo tired of all the time at the shoot and then comes the editing. I'm ready to shoot some brackets (hand blended HDR) and let someone much better than myself on the other side of the world do my editing. I could easily do a small price increase to cover my editing. Blessings

There are a couple of nuggets in there. Thanks again Eli

Thanks for all info Eli, can you give any advice or make a video on how to deliver real estate videos with music that won't get the realtor's account copyright strike? I know about "royalty free music" but my clients (realtor) uses Fb Ads for their account and it gives the copyright strike. I don't have enough clients or demand to pay for those licensing commercial/business subscriptions. Any advice? Thanks

Do you edit all the work yourself or send it off for a company to do? If so who do you use?

If you're doing that many shoots a day are they only home shoots or are you branching off to different types of photography? I don't know if I would believe a company is doing hundred of home shoots a day when you check the Mls there isn't thousands of homes for sale its actually pretty low.

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So I watched the workshop at your given link and maybe I’m missing something but is there more to the “instagram method” than I’m seeing there? I feel like there was almost no detail given. I’ve enjoyed your videos and I think they’ve been really helpful, but don’t see much meat as far as the marketing goes. Thanks again.

I have the equipment and the experience but am afraid to take the next step because I don't have a clue about the business side of things or how to price my work.

Would you say that $500 was a contract for as many homes that the customer has for that month? Or is this one home for $500?

When at work does a real estate photographer, I hated working with realtors. They were actually the worst part of my job so I quit. The conclusion is that it’s a race to the bottom because they value price just like Eli said, you’re shooting the 80% and majority of realtors fail so they’re looking for good photos for the cheapest possible price.

Do you take payment of front?