What this course covers
Listing photography you can shoot yourself when hiring a professional is not practical: a rental, a small condo, a last-minute price change, a seller who will not fund it. Not a replacement for a professional photographer on a significant listing, and the course says so plainly.
Light, and working with what you have
Light is most of photography. Time of day, which windows to use, which to avoid, when to turn interior lights on, and how to handle the rooms that face the wrong way.
Composition and preparing a room
Where to stand, how high to hold the camera, and which corner makes a room read as its actual size. Also the preparation that matters more than the camera: what to remove, what to straighten, what to open.
Phone settings that make a difference
Modern phone cameras are capable of good listing photography. The course covers the handful of settings worth changing, when HDR helps and when it produces something unusable, and simple correction afterwards.
Walkthrough video
Route planning, moving steadily without equipment, pacing, and sensible length. Most listing videos fail on route and pace rather than image quality.
Where accuracy becomes a legal question
The line between presenting a property well and misrepresenting it. Wide angles that distort proportion, editing that removes real defects, and images that imply features the property does not have. This is a disclosure issue, not a taste issue.
Who this is for
Agents who take some of their own listing photos, or who want to judge a photographer’s work more critically. No equipment beyond a current smartphone is required.