This weeks work

So this weeks, has been spent trying to sort our house out to put it up for sale. After booking in with an estate agent, he called to say he had a positive test for covid19 and therefore could not come to our house to photograph it for marketing.

After initially being disappointed by this, me and my husband were talking and he asked why I couldn’t do the photography for us? I hadn’t considered it an option, as surely the estate agent has somebody to do that for them… but no, he works alone. As it turns out he was “200% happy with that” plan.

So today was spent taking many photos. The pressure was on to create a good looking home. To produce great photos which could potentially be seen by hundreds, with the aim of them selling a house for us. My photography has never had to achieve anything for me before.

Overall I really enjoyed it. I used knowledge I’ve picked up through this course to help me through. Things like reviewing in the viewfinder instead of assuming its OK, changing settings to even out the light and show a room at its best.

I haven’t photographed indoors much so I enjoyed using this to work in manual mode and explore the correct settings. I cant help but wonder how differently the photos may have turned out if our agent had taken them instead. I’m awaiting his email back to say they’re OK to use. I’ve always been very critical of my own work, so to have to give it to a stranger to publish online is quite scary to me!