Great Exterior Photos

Getting great property photos doesn’t mean spending thousands on a digital camera, or hours in front of your computer doctoring your photos. Here are a few simple tips to help you get the most out of your digital camera.

Too Much Sun

Avoid taking photos where the sun is behind the house. For starters, it means that the side of the house you're photographing will look dark & be in shadow. Another reason to avoid doing this is because the bright sky is over 1,000 times brighter than the parts of the house in shadow. Your camera will either make the front of the house too dark, or it will try to compensate and you’ll end up with  a white sky and strange, milky colours.

Allow Space for Cropping

Many newspapers offer glossy "full-bleed" ads, where your photos go right to the edge of the page.To achieve this, they actually print on slightly larger paper and cut off the excess. Our Edge Wrap and Banner Wrap signboards also feature wrap-around photographs. Avoid composing your photographs so that the roof and sides of the house are close to the edge of the picture. Otherwise, you may find yourself forced to crop your photos in a way that chops off roofs, walls and steps.

Try a Polarising Filter

Polarising filters are a go-to solution for many landscape and architectural photographers for a number of reasons. They allow you to reduce unwanted reflections on glass and water, and by reducing glare they also make foliage greener and the sky bluer. Inexpensive polarising filters can be purchased from most camera stores. Marumi make excellent and inexpensive fiters, while leading brands like Hoya and B+W will cost a bit more.