Show Off Your Rental Property Like No Other

Have you ever looked at rental properties for a vacation and you just could not get a feel for the property?

Well no more!   –  With a 3D Walk Around Tour you can show it all!

CLICK TO BE ASTOUNDED

This is not one of those cheesy slide shows that plays horrible music.  Yea, that type with the music that everyone scrambles for the mute button as soon as it blares across the room as it slowly flips through images of your listing or business.  You know, what the industry now calls a “virtual tour.”

This is WAY MORE COOL!  Not to mention MODERN and ALLURING!  This is the most realistic, immersive way to experience a property or business online.

Contact me at Blue Maple Photography (info@BlueMaplePhotography.com).

Matterport 3D Showcase Walk-Around Virtual Tour

Engage buyers. Delight sellers. The Matterport 3D Showcase Walk-Around Virtual Tour is the most realistic, immersive way to experience a property online.

Ultimate Experience: Any Time, Anywhere

A 3D Showcase Walk-Around Virtual Tour is an online experience that lets home buyers move through a property and see it from any angle. Even get a completely unique sense for the place with a “dollhouse” view.

More Clients, Better Listings, Real Emotion

Image galleries, 360º panoramas and fly-through videos lack the perspective and “feel” that home buyers and sellers crave. A Matterport 3D Showcase Walk-Around Virtual Tour creates an emotional connection with the home.

Click to see for yourself.

Or click here for a direct link to check out a live Matterport 3D Showcase Walk-Around Virtual Tour !

Contact me at Blue Maple Photography or email at info@BlueMaplePhotography.com to arrange a session.

Selling Homes in Columbus?

Selling Homes in Columbus?

Engage Blue Maple Photography to Create a Matterport 3D Showcase Walk-Around Virtual Tour

If you are selling your homes in the greater Columbus area, engage Blue Maple Photography to create a Matterport 3D Showcase Walk-Around virtual tour to help your sell your house by enabling:

1. real estate agents to pre-tour your home for their clients
2. out-of-town prospective buyers to tour your home virtually
3. in-town prospect buyers to tour your home virtually

A 3D Showcase Walk-Around will help you and your real estate agent:

1. sell your home faster
2. get more offers
3. get more money for your home

“The typical buyer began their home search online and then contacted a real estate agent,” according to a survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “Buyers searched a median of 12 weeks and visited 10 homes.”

“Our Matterport 3D Showcase Walk-Arounds will help you reduce weeks on market, increase visits to your home (virtually) and reduce the number of people that visit your home, but are not potential buyers of your home,” says Blue Maple Photography’s Chief Photographer Brian Mollenkopf.

“If a photo is worth a thousand words, a 3D Showcase Walk-Around by Blue Maple Photography is worth a thousand photos to help potential buyers virtually tour your home,” says Brian.

According to a poll commissioned by Discover Home Loans and reported by Huff Post:

• 89% of homebuyers use some form of technology to help them with the home buying process.
• 47% of all homebuyers report using technology helped them save money
• 92% of homebuyers say technology helped them save time
• 90% of homebuyers report an overall positive experience when using technology
• 83% of homebuyers feel technology helped them stay organized
• 93% percent of technology users say technology allowed them to do things remotely they otherwise would have had to do in person.

According to NAR, its survey showed:

• Buyers used a wide variety of resources in searching for a home. Top results showed 92 percent used the Internet, 89 percent used real estate agents, 51 percent yard signs, 45 percent each attended open houses and used a mobile application, and 42 percent used mobile search engines.
• When buyers were asked where they first learned about the home they purchased, 43 percent said the Internet; 33 percent from a real estate agent; 9 percent a yard sign or open house; 6 percent from a friend, neighbor or relative; 5 percent from home builders; 2 percent directly from the seller; 1 percent a print or newspaper ad; and less than 1 percent from other sources.

Within 24-32 hours of the 3D Showcase Walk-Around photo shoot, Blue Maple Photography will email you:

1. Matterport 3D Showcase URL (opens like this)
2. Matterport iFrame embed code (as easy as embedding a YouTube video)
3. 10-20 still iamges from within each Matterport 3D Showcase [via Dropbox]
4. Hosting of the 3D Showcase

Please see the Pricing Information on www.BlueMaplePhotography.com. Then, simply Contact Us to schedule your Matterport 3D Showcase photo shoot.

 

Aerial Photography

by Hannah Kern

Aerial photography was first practiced by the French photographer Gaspard-Felix Tournachon in 1858. From there, the use of aerial photography steadily matured during World War I, as reconnaissance aircraft became equipped with cameras with the purpose of recording enemy movements.

Residential Home

Now, jumping ahead by 200 years, aerial photography has branched out to a new demographic. Real estate. In today’s system of real estate, more and more agents are discovering that with aerial photography, they are able to achieve high end listings to promote their property in new and unique ways. To achieve an aerial photograph, the photographer must be positioned on the ground and angle the subject of the photo at an elevated position.  In most cases, the camera is not supported by a ground based structure. This kind of photo taking method is very beneficial and creative based to realtors because of the way the true size, shape dimensions, and layout of a home is shown in the visual. Aerial photography can also give the seller an advantage in their listing by showing their property in the context of its surrounding area or by showing the property at unique angles and viewings. As a result, these agents carry the potential to increase their sales and differentiate themselves from any competition they may face. Aerial photography is also useful in other forms of context.

Residential Home

The ability of aerial photography to record the adverse biological conditions of disease, pests, weeds, and the adverse physical and chemical conditions of drought, flood, and soil are very efficient for crop reviewing. Another example is construction monitoring; in which case, aerial photography is used to ensure that any building or construction project is running on schedule. If you are an agent looking to soar above and beyond your competitors standards, be sure to contact Blue Maple Photography for your aerial photography projects as well as your commercial real estate imagery needs.

Commercial Real Estate

Commercial Real Estate

Agriculture

Agriculture

 

Some Pix From In Between Shoot Locations

Dutch Styled Windmill in Oberlin, Ohio

Lorain, Ohio Lighthouse

Another shot of the Lorain, Ohio Lighthouse

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Real Estate and Apartment Photography

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The Many Faces of Children Portraits

What Goes Into A Photo Session

In today’s world everyone has a digital camera.  They can take a picture and have it printed at the local big box or drug store.  So how come professional photographers charge X amount of dollars for an 8×10 when they cost just $1.50 at the t the local big box or drug store.

Simply put, the customer is not just paying for the actual photograph; they’re paying for time and expertise.

Take, for example, a typical one hour photo session.

Here is what all in involved:

• Travel to and from the session
• Business and equipment insurance
• Federal, state and local taxes.
• Setup, preparation, talking to the client, etc.
• Shoot the photos
• Travel from the session
• Load images onto a computer
• Back up the files on an external drive
• 2 – 4 hours of Adobe® Photoshop® time, including cropping, contrast, color, sharpening, and backing up edited photographs. Proof photos are also ordered.
• 2 – 3 hours to talk to the client, answer questions, receive order and payment, order their prints, receive and verify prints, package prints, schedule shipment, and ship.
• Possibly meet clients at the studio to review photos and place order. Meeting and travel time average 2 hours.

You can see how a one-hour session easily turns into an eight-hour day or more from start to finish. So when you see a personal photographer charging a $100 session fee for a one-hour photo shoot, the client is NOT paying them $100 per hour.

Owning a camera doesn’t make you a photographer, it makes you a camera owner. 

 

High School Senior Portraits and Photography, Delaware, Ohio USA

Visit us at :  www.bluemaplephotography.com

The “We don’t…” and “We do…” of Blue Maple Photography – A Must Read for Anyone Looking to Hire a Professional Photographer

The “We don’t…”  and “We do…” of Blue Maple Photography – A Must Read for Anyone Looking to Hire a Professional Photographer

We don’t charge an exceedingly low price.

• You’ve heard the saying, “If something is worth having, it is usually worth something.” Shouldn’t that also be true for the portraits hanging on your wall? If you just wanted digital or printed images you would have just used the camera app on your mobile phone.  You know, these days almost everyone now has a digital camera.  After all you want a top notch quality product and superior customer service.  Isn’t this exactly why you are looking for a professional photographer?

We do not “take pictures for some extra spending cash.”

• This is our profession.  This is what pays the bills and mortgage.  It takes a lot of time, education, and experience to become truly proficient and able to produce a cohesive portrait session for a client. We are not in it just to make a couple hundred bucks for a couple hours of shooting.  Our focus is not to make images that are “good enough”,  but images that are fantastic.   Notice how I said “a couple hundred bucks?”  That’s because that’s what is what you are seeing out there.  That is what the Shoot & Burners (a.k.a. Mom With A Camera [MWAC] or Guy With A Full Time Job [GWFTJ]) charges.  That is them just wanting to take pictures for some extra spending cash.  

We don’t print our images at the local big box or drug store.

• For our prints, we use professional photography print labs.  Professional labs use professional paper and ink that are archival quality.   Just for a giggles, see for yourself the next time you are shopping in a big box or drug store.  Look at their sample images.  Do they look yellowed or discolored – already?  Is that what you want to happen to your portrait that will be hanging in your home? 

We don’t hand you your prints in a plain white envelope.

• All of our prints, under 11×14, are delivered to you in a keepsake boutique packaging.  

We don’t shoot and burn a CD handing it to you in a paper sleeve with no keepsake or protective packaging following a session.

• We take pride in our work and our images have to look spectacular.  We spend about 3-4 times the amount of time of your session time meticulous editing to provide you with the best of the best images.  For digital customers we provide top quality American made eco-friendly keepsake packaging. All our digital packages include the a high definition (720p) slide show, two 2 GB USB flash drive with all final professionally edited images and the high definition (720p) slide show, a 4×6 archival print of all final images,  Yes!  We include prints of every image.  Think about it, I’m sure this has happened to you how many times – when life itself gets in the way and you know, that CD or USB drive just sits in the drawer or file cabinet waiting and waiting for prints to be made.  You’ll always have prints to show when friends and family want to see them.  Then the digital package comes in an American made eco-friendly keepsake storage box that is handcrafted out of unvarnished blond maple with compartments for your USD flash drive and 4×6 archival prints. You also get full printing and usage rights on all images and 75% discount on our professional printing if you wish for us to handle that. 

We don’t give you files in bizarre sizes and file types.

• We’ll give you files in .jpg format in both a high resolution and web resolution file size.  That way you can immediately load you images up to your favorite social media site.  If you need something different, just ask.  Customer support and satisfaction is our primary objective.

We don’t claim to be a natural light photographer of use an on-camera.

• When you use solely natural light, the camera works to properly expose everything you have framed, the sky, background, model, foreground, etc…. The typical result, an overexposed sky or background and darken face on the model or the opposite.Hey, isn’t the model the reason why you are looking for a photographer?On-camera light produces a harsh flat look with no dimension, not to mention strong visible shadows.Off-camera lighting (e. g., remote controlled strobes in umbrellas or softboxes) is a much softer and flattering. With this you get the studio look with great highlights, soft shadows, and lots of defining contrast. Here the model pops out of the image! We use a mixture of both natural light and flash to give you great images. Yes, shouldn’t the item wanting to be photographed be the visual key in the image.

We don’t meet at high noon.

• We prefer to meet in the morning or evening when the light is more flattering and less harsh.  Why?  Because you will not get dark shadows or over exposed hotspot in your images.  Don’t laugh; you know you’ve seen images when you were searching for a photographer.

We don’t arrive to a session alone.

• Almost all of our session we have an accompanying photo assistant.  Not only is this for everyone’s safety but it is also necessary to the additional help with making you look great.  You want to look great; right?

We don’t ask you to make checks payable to an individual.

• Checks are payable to Blue Maple Photography – we are a legitimate business and pay taxes.

We don’t show up to a session without being insured.

• We are a professional business and are fully insured.

We don’t show up to a session with just a single camera around our neck.

• We come prepared. We have multiple cameras in case of a malfunction. Do you know how many working parts and circuit boards there are in a modern camera? Don’t forget batteries and memory cards, we carry extra of those as well.  Additionally we carry plenty of light gear and stands all to make you look your best.