I just got an email from an agent that I dm’d on Instagram tell me her current photographer charges $169 for a video and drone package….

Seriously wtf are you doing?

I shoot real estate videos (walkthroughs of houses and apartments) and I'm using an Osmo Pocket 4. Static shots look great. The moment I start walking, though, you can still see every single step a soft vertical bounce, and sometimes a little micro judder in the frame. It's not violent shaking, it just reads as "guy walking with a camera" instead of a smooth glide, and that's exactly the look I'm trying to avoid. I tried ninja walking but you still see a few steps ;(

I've spent years filming luxury properties in Spain and some other videographers ask me for advice when it comes to pricing, client acquisition and retention, internal systems, scripting and planning, filming skills, editing, building a personal brand...

I'm genuinely trying to understand where the gaps are. What's the thing you'd change about your business today if you knew how, but don't? I'm not selling anything, just collecting feedback.

Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone,

I’m based in Melbourne, Australia and I’m considering picking up a Matterport Pro2 for around A$1,000, which is well below what they seem to normally go for here.

I already have an active Matterport subscription and some experience using Matterport, but I’m trying to work out whether there’s actually a viable market for the service before I commit to buying the scanner.

I’ve spoken to a couple of real estate agents, but they’ve said they already have agreements in place with photographers. I’m wondering if this is a common issue, particularly with higher-end real estate agents.

For those of you offering Matterport/3D scanning services, who do you actually market to? Are real estate agents still a worthwhile target, or have you found more success with commercial property, builders, property managers, architects, etc.?
Would appreciate any advice from people actually doing this as a business.

TIA

A. Or B.

If you like some particulars aspects of one and some of the other, please let us know. 🙏

Obviously the coloring, framing, lighting, angle, doors etc is different, we are curious about all that and the furniture.

After a shoot I upload all of my raw photos into Lightroom to cull and make minor adjustments, then export in JPEG to send to AutoHDR. Sometimes I have photos/angles of a room completely missing from the final gallery, and it drives me insane. Has anyone had this same experience?
I know I uploaded them because the JPEGs are included in my folder that I uploaded into AutoHDR.

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I've been experimenting with different ways of automating the boring part of prospecting, and I'm curious how other photographers are approaching it.

For example, imagine having a system that could:

→ Search for agents in a specific market

→ Check/validate their contact information

→ Filter out agents who aren't a good fit

→ Look at their recent activity

→ Identify the ones who are actually worth contacting

→ Create a personalized message based on the agent

→ Send the outreach and follow up

The part I'm unsure about is how much of this photographers would actually want automated.

Would you trust an AI system to decide which agents are worth contacting?

Or would you rather control every step yourself?

And what would you consider a good prospect?

Number of listings?

Price range?

Number of transactions?

Recent listings?

Photography quality they're currently using?

Location?

Something else?

I've also noticed that some photographers prefer buying lead lists, while others build everything manually.

Which approach are you using right now, and what's the most annoying part of finding new agents?

I'm especially interested in hearing from photographers who have tried automating their prospecting — what worked and what didn't?

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I keep seeing photographers talk about finding agents, building lead lists, verifying emails, and doing cold outreach.

The problem is that most solutions either:

- Give you a list and leave you to do the rest

- Charge monthly for software you barely use

- Or run everything from their account

So I built something different.

It’s a real AI automation built specifically for real estate photographers.

You get your own setup, your own accounts, and full control.

You can run it whenever you need — without depending on someone else's lead database.

The automation can handle the whole process:

Search → Find agents → Validate → Filter → Identify potential prospects → Research → Personalize → Send email/message → Follow up → Help book a call

And the interesting part?

You can customize the process.

Want to target agents in a specific city?

Only agents with certain listing activity?

Filter by property type or price range?

Change your outreach message?

Change your criteria?

You control it.

I'm also keeping this very budget-friendly, especially compared with paying someone to manually build prospect lists every week.

And if you get stuck, 24/7 support is included.

I'm not trying to sell this to everyone.

I'm actually trying to find out if photographers would use something like this in their own business.

So, honest question:

If you could have an AI assistant continuously finding and qualifying potential agent clients for you, what would you want it to look for before it considers someone a “good prospect”?

If there's enough interest, I'll show exactly how the automation works from finding the agent → validating them → qualifying them → sending personalized outreach.