hello hello youtube this is richard
founder of short-term rental secrets.com
and Airbnb super host I'm super excited
about what we're doing today we're
starting them small mini series on how
to list a home and I'm actually using a
custom built home that I'm an investor
in as an example so I'm upstate New York
and Windham which is a ski area also
really popular in the summertime and I'm
up here filming it it's going to be a
little bit challenging to show how you
might use it in the winter given that
there's no snow and that the proximity
of the house what makes it so special is
that it's ski-in ski-out
but nonetheless we're going to go
through this part is the photography
part the next part will be the actual
listing and how we describe it and so on
but check it out come behind the scenes
with me as I lift this home on AODA news
let's do it okay so this is a relatively
new home I'm actually a co-owner in this
with another family and we each have
three kids so there's a total of six
kids and two families that live here and
as a consequence we built it with two
equal masters and this is a great open
living room with the fireplace and
television it opens up to the dining
room and the kitchen which is a great
floor plan for the way that people like
to live today and you can see the
vaulted ceilings in the space and all
the bright light and Sun and everything
so my challenge today on the photography
end of it is to capture sort of a
spaciousness the vault and then also the
fact that it's got two equal master
bedrooms and then it's got a separate
media room for the kids and so on so
between the description and the
photography I need to paint the story of
just how large this is and how perfect
it is for two families to come and split
it these are taking more photos and
changing the different exposure so you
can look on your computer and see what
looks best
you can't take too many photos and since
photography is basically free now just
shoot away I like to start off really
wide and try and capture the size and
the scale and that's really challenging
but I'm using a wide-angle lens and then
I'm just taking a bunch of different
shots more than I could possibly use but
I can always weed them out and I like to
have a lot of selection later
take the same shot from different angles
take the same shot from different
heights one of the tips that I talked
about earlier was trying to take the
shot from the height where you actually
use it so since I'm in the kitchen here
I'm not taking it super high up I'm
taking it from sort of eye level if you
will sort of what people might see and
then again from the kitchen here you can
see the dining room table leading out to
a deck and I'm using as a reference so
that people follow it the faucet so now
I'm going to move to the other end of
the room and capture again the same
scene but just from a different angle
what will move out of the way come on go
go lie down lie down down good boy
that's a good boy
and now I'm capturing this from as far
back as possible to make it as big as
possible you'll also note that I have
the throws positioned so that the couch
looks inviting and usable
I'm also capturing the corner of the
deck up there because I'm going to take
some photos from that as well and I'm
capturing the corner of the dining room
table again just sort of telling a
little bit of a story weaving these
images together so that if people flip
through the photos online they know what
they're looking at and it sort of makes
some sense and now I'm taking photos of
the dining room and the kitchen again
showcasing the open floor plan and then
I'll take one of the dining room table
and the stools so that people see that
the I'm sorry benches so that people can
see how they'd be seated here and now
I'm going to take the same actually I'm
going to take a close-up of just the
living room so that people can see the
light and the television and the
fireplace and the reclining chairs and
the throws and hopefully envision how
they might use it and now
shot from this side this angle here
where you can see the kitchen and I'm
using the recliners in the couch and the
throw as examples and now I'm taking one
slightly higher so you can see the upper
deck then I'm going to showcase in a
little bit and I'm going to now go
outside and shoot the deck I'm going to
try and capture the couch it's a little
bit hard sorry I'm going to move back a
little bit here and try and capture
where we're going to walk and you can
see the view and then as I take the next
shot and tell the story a little bit and
then come out here and shoot the deck
again I'm trying to show the size of the
deck so I want to take the photo from
inside and this is going to be little
challenging given the light but I'm
going to do it nonetheless here's the
view and the grill and the side of the
home and we actually filmed some drone
footage which is going to be helpful in
showing this deck and the view and so on
which will be cool I'm excited about
that
okay now I'm going to show the grill
because I think that's a common question
that people ask is is there a grill now
you can see the size of it it also shows
the brand and it's a gas grill so we'll
be sure to highlight that in the
description what I like to do is also
paint the picture as you've heard me
mentioned in other videos so this isn't
going to be a room shot as much as it is
going to be how somebody might do it and
in this particular case I've selected a
very nice colorful magazine and the
colorful mug and I'm just going to take
a photo at sort of the level that they
would be seated at showing how they
might sit there with the Sun coming in
drenched in the room
looking at a magazine having a cup of
coffee and looking at the gorgeous view
and all the greenery and you know we're
sort of a tree level and so this image
isn't going to do anything other than be
interspersed in the listing and sort of
detail what they might do I also removed
some of the chairs around the table
because I thought they were distracting
and I just really wanted to focus on a
nice visual aesthetic to get people
excited about it okay so now here one
thing that we built in this custom home
was um I'm eat-in kitchen for the kids
so we have these stools and I in order
to draw the point home I'm going to put
out bowls so that people will envision
that and as I sit to take the photo what
I realized is there's a rug and dog bowl
in the corner so I don't want that
visible so I'm going to just go ahead
and move that I'm also going to remove
the remote for the fan because that
doesn't really add any value and now I'm
going to take the photo sort of at eye
level of the five bowls that are lined
up directly in front of all the stools
and I'm going to take the photo sort of
at eye level showing the stools the
kitchen counter and the five bowls I
think we got what we need here okay so
here I've haven't been to this home
since ski season and before I photograph
and I found a friendly spider that I'm
obviously going to eliminate from the
photos doesn't really add a lot of value
okay so I'm here just going to show this
bathroom and it's just a clean modern
bathroom but it's a little bit on the
small side so though I always recommend
going landscape with your photos for
something smaller like this you may have
to make an exception and go portrait
mode now what's kind of interesting
about this bathroom and I want to make
sure I show it is that there's actually
a little light above the shower and so
it's natural light and it's kind of cool
and so we just want to make sure that it
looks really clean and inviting and
that's where the portrait mode is really
going to be helpful all right so let's
go upstairs now to the
two master bedrooms and also the yoga
Lounge now let's start with the Yoga
lounge it's not set up and so what I'm
going to actually do is take a minute
here to put some of these mats out so
that people can sort of understand so I
just put the mats out and I Kings it up
a little bit and now I show it as a yoga
studio I'm capturing the television on
the wall also the nice natural sunlight
and also the math and I'm doing it from
a relatively low angle so you can sort
of be in that yoga mind frame
I'm also capturing the rail here so you
can see from a perspective what you're
looking at I'm going to take a shot here
that shows all of the open vaulted
ceilings and all the glass windows with
the railing and then I'm going to take
one of just the all the glass and the
deck and the outdoors and then I'm going
to start to photograph from above the
dining room area and the living room
area with the fireplace and this is a
little bit tricky but we're doing our
best this is a great shot okay so now
I'm going to film one of the master
bedrooms it's actually the one that I
use and live in and although the bed is
perfectly made and everything looks
great the one thing that does look a
little bit messy is the computer station
over here so I'm going to actually just
unplug it all and even though I'm going
to plug it right back in as soon as I
leave I'm going to just push it off to
the side and make it look a little bit
more presentable so the photos look
great okay so now I clean that up and
I'm just going to clean up the table
here as well make sure that the boat is
nice and me everything looks good this
looks a little disorderly I'm just going
to move it out of the camera it's not
visible
and I think it looks good otherwise why
dangle from a lower perspective I'm
getting the ceiling pin also and also
the reclining chair and also the door
for the bathroom and two lights and now
I'm going to take it from another
alternate angle this is a nice shot you
see the closets you see the television
you see the night lights you see the
beds you see the desk so now I'm going
to film the laundry room and because
there's two families living here and
lots and lots of kids and activity
there's also lots and lots of laundry
but it doesn't look very nice so I'm
going to actually get up a little bit
before I take the photo okay so now this
is kind of a tough angle and a tough
shot but I just really want to show that
there is a washer and a dryer because
when you ski you often get sweaty and
people want to know that they can clean
their stuff so we wanted to show that we
have large commercial size washer and
dryer and this is really why we bought
this house and built this house right
here because this ski slope is literally
1 2 3 less than 20 feet away from the
ski mountain which is right here so this
is really the key I'm going to take a
photo of the ski rack outdoors here and
then I'm going to take a photo of this
little area that shows just how close we
are and in order to show how close we
are
I'm actually going to capture the grass
and you can assume that the graph would
be snow I also have the ski rack and the
door so people can see ski-in ski-out
okay so one thing I realized as I'm
running out and finishing this up is I
didn't really paint the picture of like
just how close this is to the ski area I
showed the ski rack and I showed the
skis but I think it's going to be much
cooler even though it's kind of weird in
the summertime
I'm going to actually carry a couple
pairs of skis out here again nobody's
going to use this in the summer this way
but it just sort of shows look how close
to the ski area we are okay cool so I
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