Almost no listing photograph is badly taken: it is untreated. The colour cast, the closed shadows and the flat contrast come out of the camera that way, and they stay that way if nobody touches them. This is what changes when somebody does.
The two starting photographs are not ours and belong to no client. They are two home photographs released into the public domain (CC0) on Wikimedia Commons. The one on the left is the file exactly as published, untouched. The one on the right is the very same file put through our treatment.
What is demonstrated here is the treatment, and only the treatment. We did not take these photographs, they are not the homes of our clients, and we did not degrade the left-hand file to make the right-hand one look better.
What is blown out stays blown out. In the living room photograph the window holds no information in the original file: it cannot be recovered, and we have not painted a view where there was none. That is fixed during the shoot, with two exposures, not afterwards.
HolaStudio is starting. Publishing another agency's work with the name covered up, or a percentage with no source, would be easier and less honest. That is not going to happen here.
The first ten jobs are shot at no cost, in exchange for permission to publish them. As soon as there is a real home photographed by us, this comparison is replaced by theirs, with the agency name and its written permission.
In the meantime, if you want to see more before deciding, send us the link to one of your published listings. We will tell you in writing what we would change in the photographs, with no strings attached.
The link to a published property is enough. I answer in writing: what I would change in the photographs, whether it deserves video, and whether a virtual tour would win a real visit.
