Photographs are the first thing that home exchangers will look at when visiting your listing. Great photos will get more home exchange offers, so it’s super important that you showcase your home with good photographs.
Photos also provide a glimpse of what it will be like to stay at your place, and helps set the expectations for your visitors. So lets get photographing!
How to prepare your home for photographing
1. Set aside about 30mins to an hour to take your photos
2. Try to take the photos during the day so there is lots of natural light. Setting aside some time on the weekend is probably easiest
3. Tidy up your clutter - show how your place will look when your home exchangers arrive
4. Turn on all your lamps and lights - light spots add depth to a picture and emphasize the space better
5. Open curtains and blinds to let in the natural light, and make sure they are straight
6. In your bathroom, clear clutter, open the shower curtain and close the toilet lid
7. Don’t forget to take photos of your outdoor spaces! Take a few pictures of the front of your house and the street you live on
8. A room with a view - do you have some nice views from your windows? Take some photos!
9. Take some close up pics of your favorite spots in your house - your pretty vase, a cute corner, or your gorgeous new oven. Highlighting the best features and amenities of your house can help others know what it’s like to stay in your home.
7 quick photography tricks to improve the photos of your home
1. Turn off your camera flash - photographs of your spaces will look better without it!
2. Don’t tilt the camera up or down - it gives objects weird shapes
3. Take photographs from chest height
4. Try and shoot from the corner of the room - it shows your space better
5. Take photographs with only two walls in them, and with a bit of floor and ceiling. Photographing three walls at once can make a room look like a shoebox
6. If you have a tripod, use it! It helps steady the camera (and to shoot from a lower angle)
7. Edit your photos - if you want to straighten them up, crop them, or fix the colors - we recommend the free software Picasa by Google.
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