Sometimes professional photography of a property seems obvious, you want to show off the property to it’s best advantage - be that for a commercial venture, a holiday property or business, or even your own home. You are attracting the right clients and showing it off to it’s best. Amateurs and estate agents often don’t have the experience to really give the best possible representation of a place and pictures sell, particularly on the internet.
But what if your home is not all that great? Perhaps it was bought as a “doer upper” and the doing up just never really happened, or it is a neglected inherited property that needs moving on.
I think what I do will still add value in those situations - I try and find the quirks, the character even, of the property and sell the possibility.
This week I had just that kind of job out in the stunningly beautiful township of Nedd in Assynt. An unfortunate name (for those of a Glaswegian disposition particularly) but drop dead gorgeous non-the-less. The house… however… needed someone with vision to see past the dead birds and general feeling of abandonment. A small house like this would usually be shot pretty quickly, but I took a little more time, worked with natural light and HDR photography to try and catch the nuances and hopefully to attract a buyer that will “get” this property and really make something of it.
The house really deserves that.
The end of this week is going to be a top up shoot of a B&B, some video editing and then the long weekend! I am quite excited to see what May brings as the Spring is finally getting underway up here in the north of Scotland too, and I have a few projects on the boil for the month which will keep me pretty busy, particularly with some potential work down in the Cairngorms on both the residential and holiday side of things.