Bad Angles

Today I ran across a listing whose major transgression was a series a ill-conceived shots that had no focal point and did little to market the house.

This is probably part of a family room, and it looks like maybe it abuts the kitchen. This is the first of two fireplace fragment photos in this listing.



Since the fireplace is the focal point of most rooms, you expect it to be the focal point of most real estate listing photos. Not in this blurry photo. You have absolutely no sense of what the room is like, and the photo has no focal point.



I assume from the height of the chandelier, that this is a dining room. But where's the room?


Tilty photo of the day:


And bad hallway shot of the day:

This is not a particularly horrible photograph, but unless a hallway is particularly grand, a photo of it will do nothing to sell the house.

Listing photos are not appraisal photos. You're not taking listing photos to document the house, you're taking them to market the house.