Estate agents stretching pictures.

[scottyp123]

What is it with the above, no-one has ever bought a house on the strength of the pictures so what's the score? when the 100ft dream garden turns out to be 3 stretched fence panels its just a waste of everyone's time. Out of all the ones that I've seen this bed sent me over the edge for some reason. Its just a fking box room like everyone has got.

[voyds9]

Peter Crouch's bed

[MitchT]

I've noticed this too. For example, the kitchen looks massive until you count the number of cabinet doors and realise it's probably about 2.5 metres along the elevation you're looking at!

[littlebasher]

Not that different from developers dressing their houses with miniature furniture.

For laughs, I tried laying on the bed in the smallest bedroom. Bilbo Baggins would have struggled to stretch out on it.

[AlexC1981]

I totally agree. Sometimes you see two photos of the same room taken from different positions and it is hard to tell it is the same room because the one photo might make the room look really long, whereas the other makes it look really wide.

[OpenToeSlipper]

They'll be using a wide angle lens so you can see almost the whole room in one photo. Granted it does give the appearance of a larger room.

[320d is all you need]

scottyp123 said:

What is it with the above, no-one has ever bought a house on the strength of the pictures so what's the score? when the 100ft dream garden turns out to be 3 stretched fence panels its just a waste of everyone's time. Out of all the ones that I've seen this bed sent me over the edge for some reason. Its just a fking box room like everyone has got.

True point - Wide angle lens so you can see the (nearly) whole room in one photo.
It's OK most of the time but there are certainly times when estate agents use the angles to make the room look bigger, best thing is to always check the floor plans too!

[JagLover]

voyds9 said:

Peter Crouch's bed

[bitchstewie]

Saw this literally yesterday.

House on Right Move just down the road and I was thinking "where the fk is that because I don't remember seeing a mansion anywhere near there?".

Walked past and the driveway looks about 100 foot long in the photo but it's just a normal 2 car side by side drive.

Weird

[tescorank]

You get more for your money with a wide angle lens, I'm certain some places in Central London are using fish eyes.

[matt666]

scottyp123 said:

What is it with the above, no-one has ever bought a house on the strength of the pictures

You don’t buy on pictures alone, but they are pretty much the only way to get people through the door. For me, a house will make it on to the short list based on pictures first, then floorplan, then location.

HDR is used in the photos a lot too, to make them look appealing, I’ve even seen a blue sky photoshopped in.

Always amazes me when an advert has bad pictures, lots of clutter or no floorplan

[drmotorsport]

matt666 said:

You don’t buy on pictures alone, but they are pretty much the only way to get people through the door. For me, a house will make it on to the short list based on pictures first, then floorplan, then location.

HDR is used in the photos a lot too, to make them look appealing, I’ve even seen a blue sky photoshopped in.

Always amazes me when an advert has bad pictures, lots of clutter or no floorplan

I've also seen other houses in the garden background, photoshopped out to the extent you would think they were ghosts, just to give the impression the gardens not overlooked.

[Magikarp]

tescorank said:

You get more for your money with a wide angle lens, I'm certain some places in Central London are using fish eyes.

Luxury! The estate agents in Cornwall are still using their Apple IPhone 3GS to take their photos, judging by the abysmal quality of the photos used. Tolerable, perhaps, in an estate agents’ office on a print out, unforgivable on a website.

[jjones]

Hugely annoying, have seen drives that look huge only to hold two cars etc.

[Tony Starks]

I was wondering if they were using a computer monitor as the TV





But No lol




And stuffed if I know how to make Thumbsnap images bigger

[mike74]

I think the only discernible skill and talent that estate agents posses is their photographic ability to make utter stholes look much nicer and bigger than they really are.

They say the camera never lies, but it looks like the lying tendencies of estate agents even rubs off on their cameras

[Jaguar steve]

mike74 said:

I think the only discernible skill and talent that estate agents posses is their photographic ability to make utter stholes look much nicer and bigger than they really are.

They say the camera never lies, but it looks like the lying tendencies of estate agents even rubs off on their cameras

They do.

I accompanied an agent round our last home when he was taking photos. He was using such a wide angle lens he needed me to stand behind him rather than beside him so I'd not be in the picture.

[durbster]

mike74 said:

I think the only discernible skill and talent that estate agents posses is their photographic ability to make utter stholes look much nicer and bigger than they really are.

They say the camera never lies, but it looks like the lying tendencies of estate agents even rubs off on their cameras

Not necessarily. Last time we sold a house we ended up taking our own photos because the estate agent ones were rubbish. They're still using our photos almost four years later when it comes up for rent.

[anonymous-user]

durbster said:

mike74 said:

I think the only discernible skill and talent that estate agents posses is their photographic ability to make utter stholes look much nicer and bigger than they really are.

They say the camera never lies, but it looks like the lying tendencies of estate agents even rubs off on their cameras

Not necessarily. Last time we sold a house we ended up taking our own photos because the estate agent ones were rubbish. They're still using our photos almost four years later when it comes up for rent.

I had to do similar when I sold one my flats. It's so easy these days to take a decent photo as well!

[Iminquarantine]

They are just using a wide angle lens. Nothing wrong with that. Better than using a standard lens, only getting a small part of the room in the picture, then having no idea what you are looking at.

For taking your own photos as the agent ones are crap - have done that too.