Taking own photos for selling?

[mumsworkneverstops]

Has anyone ever taken their own photos for the estate agent?

Husband is a photographer- I imagine him being overly critical of the photos the estate agent takes. Some that I've seen are awful!!

Also -i'm thinking it will be easier to have clean / clutter free looking photos if we don't do them all on one day and can move stuff from one room to the other

Thoughts please?

I don't see why not. We paid extra to have an independent photographer come and photograph our house. He did a stellar job. As long as you know what format they need them to be in I can't see why this would be an issue.

I was going to say don't do it until I read your husband's occupation.
You are possibly one of the households who might be able to get away with it.

I've taken photos before, the agents are always delighted. One less job to do

My best friend did when her agents photos were awful. She had a very good camera and took pictures at different times of day to show the room at it's best. His pictures made a newly done up family home look like a building that had been empty for twenty years.

I didn't like the EA's photos so I took my own (on an iPhone) and they were happy to use them instead.

What about the floor plan?
You'll presumably need that too - can your husband do that as well?

Ignore me - EA will no doubt do the floor plan as they'll be measuring up the rooms etc for the brochure - sorry!

Having seen some of the dreadful photos used by estate agents, definitely!

The advantage is you can look at them and see how things appear in an image and redo as you please.

Where a vase or side table is can look odd through a camera even when it doesn't in real life or emphasise a drawer not quite shut properly.
You can play around with the bathroom to see if a few toiletries and nice towels make it look warmer or cluttered and faff about straightening bed covers and plumping cushions to your heart's content!

Thanks everyone.

Yes exactly why I'm keen on the idea. Move clutter from one room to the other, make sure everything looks perfect as we go rather than realise afterwards that something is out of place/looks daft.

We did ours for my mums house, on a mobile phone, as the estate agents photos were awful!

How do the mobile phone photos do when uploaded to rightmove? Do they go blurry at all? My agents photos are awful and honestly the ones I took myself are so much better!

The ones I took on my phone looked good on Rightmove. Better than the majority of photos you see on there.

Obviously depends on the quality of the camera on your phone.

Our estate agent was happy to use our shots to replace the ones we didn’t like that the professional photographer had taken.

We run an estate agents and would normally advice against it but if your husband is a professional photographer then I can't see why he can't do it.
Yes I would say make the photos as clutter free as possible, move stuff about if you have to and pick a sunny day.

Yes, he can totally do it! I've done ours twice now (didn't get any money knocked off the estate agent fee though haha!) I'd recommend adding some twilight photography, lifestyle shots and photo merging. I only photographed families and weddings for years so did find interiors very different at first but now offer it as a service for holiday homes etc. I have a gallery here if he wants some ideas.

Yes we did! Only sold that one house - it was great because we would look at the photo see how it looked then tweak the room, move bits etc. We listed the house, had three viewings on one day and two offers! Would absolutely do the same again. BUT I think they have to be landscape format for Rightmove - double check with your agent first :)

I've always done ours, moved a few times and I'm in the creative sector and didn't even worry about the EA a doing them.

The last house we sold the agent had a photographer so I thought it maybe good and he was awful, photoshopped all the same clouds in the sky etc, so I did my own as well.