Are you selling your Home or Property?
Are you advertising your commercial Accommodation?
Are you advertising your own Holiday House for weekend rentals?
Either way you will be advertising your property to appeal to the largest market you are able to reach. You naturally want to gain the maximum value from your property whether its higher sale price or higher occupancy rates. A picture tells a thousand words. Make sure your pictures are good ones!
Property photography company Top Snap ran a survey in 2012 and asked 600 Australian real estate agents about how they market their properties, and a whopping 99% said nothing beats professional photography. Agents said good photography attracts more buyers (89%), increases enquiries (79%), increased clicks to their online listings (68%) and also secured a higher selling price (52%). Attracting holiday makers to your accommodation properties would have very similarly aligned benefits.
Get in touch with my contact form for a personalised quotation to meet your property photography needs. For further details and my extended commercial photography folio see here.
The Australian Professional Photography Awards #APPA2016 were a successful one for me this year. I managed to add to my collection of Silver Awards but more importantly managed to secure enough career points to be awarded Master of Photography! Woohoo!
Massively excited and it’s great reward for effort for a self taught artist from the country to rise from obscurity and get some national recognition amongst my peers. Well, now on with business as usual again. If you want a master photographer (haha) to shoot your wedding, next commercial shoot or take you on a landscape tuition session get in touch.
#masterphotographer #appa2016 #excitingstuff
Master Photographer – APPA2016
{Business Photography} Yes I also do commercial photo shoots. Not enough people know. Why? Because I’m bad at publicising myself haha. But I’m good at making your business look great!!! If you need new photos for your business then get in touch. After all a good photo tells a thousand words!
The Australian Photographic Society’s annual Convention (APSCON) was held in Ballarat this week. For those that read my post from a fortnight ago will know I was invited to be part of this year’s line up of presenters with the presentation The Grampians – A Photographic Wonderland. No one fell asleep and I was assured it went well.
The guided Photography Tour of The Grampians (with yours truly) the following day was a raging success. All the attendees lucky enough to sign up for the day got to witness the Grampians first hand at its best on a sensational clear spring day. Due to the tight timetable the midday light wasn’t ideal photographically speaking but no one was complaining. The odd passing cloud helped compositions and long lenses were call of the day to capture that neat little landscape nestled within the broader landscape.
Thanks everyone for coming along and be sure to come a visit us again in the beautiful Grampians region. Here were a few shots I managed to sneak in on the day…
APSCON 2014 – Grampians Tour with Marty Schoo
APSCON 2014 – Grampians Tour with Marty Schoo
APSCON 2014 – Grampians Tour with Marty Schoo
APSCON 2014 – Grampians Tour with Marty Schoo
APSCON 2014 – Grampians Tour with Marty Schoo
The beauty of being a multi-genre photographer is the unique jobs that pop up out of the woodwork. It’s not my first band gig but this one was a blast! I don’t think a serious word was said amongst the boys during the whole shoot haha. The brief was pretty open with cruisy backstreet locations with natural light. Hope you like the shots as much as the boys did. If so, and you know anyone looking for their own publicity imagery then swing them my way peeps! Anyway keep your ears peeled for very talented Trevor Petrie and the War of Ideas!
Trevor Petrie
Trevor Petrie
Trevor Petrie
Trevor Petrie
Trevor Petrie
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If you could mix your own work with happy people, winter sunshine, rainbows, fun, great food, campfires, amazing music, and volunteering for a great environmental cause then would you? I certainly did over the last two weeks with a series of shoots for Project Platypus with their super-impressive themed “Plantouts”. Check it out!
Wow I’m bad at keeping myself updated on here. I’ll make up for it now with a more extensive blog on last weekends Guided Photography trip. I took the Williamtown Camera Club out for a few days to see the best of the Grampians National Park… my backyard.
Before I get into what we got up to I’ll quickly put it out there for clubs, groups and individuals alike that are interested in personalised photography guided tours to contact me for a some locations, options and prices.
Well we kicked things off on Saturday afternoon by walking to the Pinnacle. The walk is diverse, adventurous and the view ever-changing and spectacular.
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| The Pinnacle |
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| Dead tree standing over the landscape |
From there we went up to Reeds lookout in time for the sunset. With near on 360 degree views at the top, we needed to be scanning all round for the best light and photographic opportunities as they arose. Light changes quickly during the “magic hour” around sunset.
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| The jagged peaks of the Serra Range as we arrived |
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| More photographers arriving to soak up the wonderful light |
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| With the sun nearly dipping, capturing every angle becomes a challange |
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| The last sun rays softly lighting the distant ranges |
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| Last light. Lake Wartook lies beneath the peaks of the Mt Difficult Range |
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| Long after the sun has set the light is often at its best. |
After a senational dinner in Halls Gap and a good sleep we awoke early to ensure we arrived at Boroka Lookout before sunrise. Well was it ever worth it, we managed to witness a Grampians sunrise at its best with everyone in the group taking home some ‘keepers’.
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| Soft hazey morning and incredible colour with Lake Fyans in the foreground |
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| Lake Lonsdale dwarfed but an incredible sunrise sky |
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| Camera club members capturing their photographs |
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| The first sunrays softly bathe Mt William |
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| My tele lens allows me to capture Mt Rosea warming up nicely |
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| With the sun now up the colour spectrum is still changing. What a morning! |
After our sunrise treat we moved along to MacKenzie Falls. It’s the largest and most spectacular waterfall in the Grampians and the photographic experience for the group didn’t disappoint.
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| Mackenzie Falls. 30sec @f8 |
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| Camera club members in the process of capturing their photographs. 30sec @f8 |
If you’re keen to capture the best photograhic spots in the Grampians and witness them at the right time of day contact me for a guided tour. If requested I can also provide tips and techiniques to improve your photography. Contact me, Marty on info@martyschoo.com.au or phone 0427790783.
Weddings aren’t all I shoot. Construction is always a bunch of fun getting amongst the action. Last month I had another three day commercial photography shoot for an Engineering and Construction client of mine in the Hunter Valley. At the end of the day people and place photography is what its all about. All three sites revolved around water supply infrastructure. The weather was great and the shoot was a success. Great results equals another happy client.
(Click on each image for larger and sharper)
Concrete Water Resevoir:
Water mains from within a dam wall:
300m within the wall the lighting conditions can best be described as challanging 🙂
Heightening of dam wall:
An events photographer has to be versatile, quick, and creative. Events I have photographed include music festivals and concerts, motorsport and car shows, local events and carnivals, and sporting events just to name a few. Contact me for an estimate for your events coverage or to ask any questions.
