I went to photography school, paid quite a fee to do so, and am mostly working in the real estate photography world now as my career. What Nathan is providing on his channel is literally a free education in a field that can easily make you good money if you put some work in.

Nathan, so don't let the ambient do the heavy lifting. I totally agree. I always have my assistant (wife) walk across a large room and I do a ceiling bounce on the left and right side of the room being careful to not have the hot spots on the ceiling get too close together. I have watched lots of KZfaq content on shooting real estate interiors and the methods I use have come from your books. Your videos are great but the books contain so much more content and examples. I would encourage photographers to not just rely on your short videos, but purchase your books. The amount of time and work you put into writing the books and the very low cost of the e-books makes it a no brainer to get the books. In my market, I can make enough money shooting a front and back twilight of a house to pay for all of your books. There are a lot of great real estate photographers out there but you are a great educator as well. Thanks for all the work you put into sharing your experience and knowledge.

I come from landscape and wildlife photography. Recently got serious about real estate. I had no idea there was this much skill involved. After bracketing my first shoot and fighting colors & ambient lighting I can totally see why you do what you do

Thank you Nathan, you have helped me so much over the past year to improve my photography. Today I learned that flash creates a sharper image. I had no idea!

Nathan as always master of real estate photography :)

Great lessons! Thanks!

Thanks so much Nathan. Your last two videos have cleared up a lot of what I had misunderstood about the technique. And after carefully correcting my steps, in addition to the fantastic results, I have noticed a huge improvement in the shooting and editing workflow. Thanks so much Nathan. I was just wondering if you have ever tried taking an HDR image as an ambient shot? What do you think about it? Would it make a difference?

thanks alot

I love you!

Hello from New York City! When you do a window pull, how are reflected flash hot spots eliminated from the glass? Thank you for your informative video.

Do you ever leave the lights off for the ambient and flash exposure and then take a dark image exposing for the lighting only and add it back in ps using the lighten mode?

Couple of things… Luminosity mode will sometimes turn portions of my photo into black and white and secondly… when I do window pulls on dark and cloudy days, i struggle to get good shots.. Thoughts? Thank you and I purchased your lighting book.

Hey Nathan! Do you have any videos on combatting ceiling hotspots from flash - specifically in larger rooms? Thanks!

Question-- on the bathroom shot, you talk about how important it is to knock out ambient on the flash shot, and use shutter speed of 1/200, which I presume is your max sync speed. Why not use that shutter speed (max sync) on all flash shots? I notice that you normally use 1/100 -- doesn't that add some ambient to the flash exposure?

Hello Nathan, I know it's been a few months and a tutorial ago, but I bracket shoot all my real estate. I shoot R5 canon, EF16-35mm f2.8 lens F.8, AV 100 1/125 ISO. In your opinion, am I over working my work flow Sir? Also I use a Kelvin app for outside shots as a real estate photographer. I must be old school huh? . I do shoot at times some very high end stuff, 80% of the time, it's usually 300k - 400k homes. Thanks in advance for your insight.

Another video, another couple "Ahh-Ha" moments. I guess "Advanced editing for Real Estate" will be my next book. I started with "Shot Lists", (Really informative) then went to "Interiors". second. Thanks again!

Have you thought to have someone follow you around on site to have a more in depth real-time tutorial? Could be a paid course of course.

I think your ambient are a bit more on the favorable side. Is it usually overcast where you are? Here in AZ, the windows are so much more blown out. I'd kill to see even the slightest detail outside a window without adjusting exposure so low that it's nearly pitch dark inside.