Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

[okgo]

Looket said:

wow, talk about character. Amazing. Love it!

I could give a new build in Worksop character with that camera.

[vescaegg]

Looket said:

easytiger123 said:

I think this is lovely.

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/32823333?...

Wow, talk about character. Amazing. Love it!

The photos are horiffic! They make it look like its not even real.

[GetCarter]

vescaegg said:

Looket said:

easytiger123 said:

I think this is lovely.

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/32823333?...

Wow, talk about character. Amazing. Love it!

The photos are horiffic! They make it look like its not even real.

Massive amounts of Tone mapping / HDR. Nasty horrid stuff that was in and is now, (hopefully) out. Glad to see the back of it.

[FourWheelDrift]

You also know that the wood & walls are stained and painted those colours, they haven't been touched up in some post-processing.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 25th April 15:38

[GetCarter]

Yep..

O/T

It is really useful as you can take a photo of a room without flashes, and get the v. bright outside to NOT burn out (Cameras are very stupid, so can't do that like eyes can). However, it has been killed to death then drowned then kicked to hell and back by photographers for ages now, and we're all sick to death of it.

[/soap box /rant]

[Gaspode]

GetCarter said:

Yep..

O/T

It is really useful as you can take a photo of a room without flashes, and get the v. bright outside to NOT burn out (Cameras are very stupid, so can't do that like eyes can). However, it has been killed to death then drowned then kicked to hell and back by photographers for ages now, and we're all sick to death of it.

[/soap box /rant]

I'm genuinely interested in this. It struck me that the photos were able to give a good representation of what the place looked like. I understand that 'conventional' pics would have either burnt out the exterior or made the interior too dark, so why is their HDR technique a bad thing? Or is there a better way to do it? Honestly, I'm not having a go here, I am intrigued.

Mind you, they weren't good enough to persuade me to fork out 3.5 mill for somewhere without a garage. Or it might be that I'm 3.499 mill short. One or the other

[GetCarter]

Gaspode said:

GetCarter said:

Yep..

O/T

It is really useful as you can take a photo of a room without flashes, and get the v. bright outside to NOT burn out (Cameras are very stupid, so can't do that like eyes can). However, it has been killed to death then drowned then kicked to hell and back by photographers for ages now, and we're all sick to death of it.

[/soap box /rant]

I'm genuinely interested in this. It struck me that the photos were able to give a good representation of what the place looked like. I understand that 'conventional' pics would have either burnt out the exterior or made the interior too dark, so why is their HDR technique a bad thing? Or is there a better way to do it? Honestly, I'm not having a go here, I am intrigued.

Mind you, they weren't good enough to persuade me to fork out 3.5 mill for somewhere without a garage. Or it might be that I'm 3.499 mill short. One or the other

All IMHO of course, but if you notice the photographer's technique in the photo before the subject matter, then the 'tog has failed. It's just a question of subtle technique, not sledge hammer (and I've been sadly responsible myself in the past). Most of mine have had some tone mapping, but it is generally used to 'repair' what the camera missed: http://stevecarter7824.zenfolio.com (feel free to hate them all!)

[GetCarter]

Apols for the thread hi-jack folks.

53 acres (and what 53 acres!) and 17 bed detached here now 'off the market' (£1.25m). Not sure why.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[Looket]

vescaegg said:

The photos are horiffic! They make it look like its not even real.

They are, but just because the photos are horrible I don't understand why the place itself is horrible.

I like wood.

[scenario8]

okgo said:

They likely think the location is a selling point, I certainly have probably see many people gobbing in their hedge when riding up there.

There is a lot of amazing property around that part of Surrey, and 1.3m gets you into something decent for sure. That said, I don't think its quite as goldfish bowl as made out, it sits a fair way back.

The whole I've lived here longer than you is so cringe by the way.

No, really, I wasn't trying to sound like a nob - I genuinely was just trying to explain that I'm not viewing that house on the internet on my laptop from my bedroom in my Mum's house (if you know what I mean) rather, I do know the area, the local market and that specific house and many of its foibles - if not, quite possibly, the real reason it is forever on the market. That was all. You do see an awful lot of posts (if not entire threads) containing a surplus of opinions over knowledge and I was just trying to explain I wasn't shooting from the hip.

(I think it's partially charming - just far too compromised in too many ways for my £1.395m - or significantly less as the case most certainly is).

[kowalski655]

GetCarter said:

Apols for the thread hi-jack folks.
53 acres (and what 53 acres!) and 17 bed detached here now 'off the market' (£1.25m). Not sure why.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

That is stunning!

[scenario8]

kowalski655 said:

GetCarter said:

Apols for the thread hi-jack folks.
53 acres (and what 53 acres!) and 17 bed detached here now 'off the market' (£1.25m). Not sure why.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

That is stunning!

I'm certainly glad I wasn't sent over there with a pen, paper and measuring tape and told to knock up the floorplan.

[dxg]

This is a stunning property. The shear number of distinguishing features is beyond belief:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[dxg]

And this is just nasty:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

They sold the house plus the field / very large garden behind it to a local developer, who built a bunch of executive homes on the field and did this to the house. Just ripped the soul out of it. Shame, as it's a nice spot.

[RichB]

dxg said:

This is a stunning property. The shear number of distinguishing features is beyond belief:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

I think stuff like that at £700k is a sign of the times.

[FourWheelDrift]

dxg said:

And this is just nasty:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

They sold the house plus the field / very large garden behind it to a local developer, who built a bunch of executive homes on the field and did this to the house. Just ripped the soul out of it. Shame, as it's a nice spot.

Always baffles me why houses like that have big electric powered solid wooden security gates but have nothing to the side of them apart from some flimsy bushes that anyone can walk through or drive through.

[Moominho]

Apologies for the Daily Heil link but this would be nice...

http://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbedrued...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613095/Is...

[ChemicalChaos]

This is just utterly stunning:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613068/A-...

[Mobile Chicane]

GetCarter said:

vescaegg said:

Looket said:

easytiger123 said:

I think this is lovely.

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/32823333?...

Wow, talk about character. Amazing. Love it!

The photos are horiffic! They make it look like its not even real.

Massive amounts of Tone mapping / HDR. Nasty horrid stuff that was in and is now, (hopefully) out. Glad to see the back of it.

Dark, gloomy, and entirely ersatz.

I have the exact same cabinet as is on the left of Picture 1. It's cheap pine, made in about 1920, and stained to look like old oak.

Dark furniture and drapes give me the heebie geebies. Dirty people have them, because they hide dirt!

[dscam]

GetCarter said:

All IMHO of course, but if you notice the photographer's technique in the photo before the subject matter, then the 'tog has failed. It's just a question of subtle technique, not sledge hammer (and I've been sadly responsible myself in the past). Most of mine have had some tone mapping, but it is generally used to 'repair' what the camera missed: http://stevecarter7824.zenfolio.com (feel free to hate them all!)

Absolutely fantastic images Steve. Genuinely would like to have any of those on my walls.

Scotland does provide some rather beautiful subject matter.