Made Snappy 360 has launched a free smartphone photography course for estate agents which it claims brings industry photography training up to date with the rise of the smart phone.

“Smart Phone Photography on a Page” aims to help agents improve their photography and take advantage of the latest developments in smart phone technology, according to Made Snappy’s photography trainer Ashley Rigg.

“As well as providing specific smart phone specific tips I wanted to separate the hardware from the decision making in photography to simplify the process” said Rigg. “There are so many decisions that apply whether you’re using a DSLR or the latest smart phone camera, for example height, angles, lens choice and exposure”.

Rigg believes smart phone photography will be the dominant form of estate agency photography in the future as the big tech players continue to focus their energies on the smart phone camera.

“Google, Apple and Samsung spend over £30 billion on R&D each year and the key battle ground in the smart phone market is the camera.  Every year both the image quality and array of professional level camera settings improve.  If you know what you’re doing with a smart phone camera and post editing, the results you can get are incredible and they’re only going to get better”.

Rigg.continued:  “A big advantage of the smart phone camera is its ease of use but that’s ironically its biggest drawback.  It’s so easy for staff to go around snapping from any angle or height without thinking about composition or light that the results can be at best inconsistent and at worst down-right terrible!”

Having said that, Rigg believes that AI is changing the game in the real estate photography.

“The AI built into smart phone photos these days is incredible.  For example, the latest models are taking numerous images at different exposures and merging them together in a millisecond.  This enables you to see through windows much more clearly than with a DSLR, especially when combined with simple drag and drop and post editing like the service provided by Made Snappy,” he added.

For more information about the course – click here.

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