SOUTH SHORE PHOTO BOOTH

South Shore Photo Booth is an open air interactive photo booth perfect for your next party or event. Brand your event and share to social media instantly. Our modern open-air photo booth is different for the old 3x3 box booths of old (yuck!). SSPB is based out of Weymouth, MA and promises you and your guests will have the time of your life. We use a high end dlsr camera and lens as well as professional studio lighting. We promise quality photos and most importantly a night you will never forget.

Visit www.Southshorephoto.com for more information 

Best of Houzz 2014! Brian Doherty Photography

Very excited to announce that I've been voted by Houzz as a winner of the Best of Houzz 2014 awards! My work won in the Customer Satisfaction category, which is based on the photos and reviews I have received from the Houzz community.  

Portrait Session

Your image online is very important in todays social media world.  People are essentially "meeting" you for the first time online and theres no better first impression then a professional portrait. Portraits and high quality photos go a long way in demonstrating that you are a professional and it also helps to build trust with your potential clients before you even meet them. Here are some recent portraits I did from the other day.

    

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit www.BrianDohertyPD.com

Recent Shot

Recently had the pleasure of shooting 19 Summit Drive in Hingham Ma. Not only was I asked to photograph the new listing they also wanted a website.

http://www.19summit.com

Movember Selfie

Its not the fullest of mustaches I know (I tried my best). But anything I can do to help raise mens health awareness is good with me no matter how many awkward stares I get. Maybe by next November It will be nice and full. 

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit www.BrianDohertyPD.com

Brian Doherty Real Estate Lighting

Im often asked how I get my images to look so nice and bright. Followed up by what kind of camera I have etc etc. However what most people don't realize is that its not so much the camera but more so how your able to manipulate and control your lighting. Don't get me wrong the other stuff helps, but lighting is the most important part of a great photo.  Let’s have a look at what goes into making a photo pop of the page.  Here are two behind the scene looks at how I use speed lights to light interiors. 

The first thing I do after I find my composition is to expose for the windows. What does that mean? well normally it’s pretty hard to subtract light, and that means that I’m going to expose for the bright stuff, such as the windows and light up the rest of the room.

Here is the shot el natural with no added light, right out of the camera.

  

YIKES!! obviously thats way to dark, so what I have to do is figure out where to put my lights to fill in all these dark shadows. 

For the final shot I used 3 flashes. One shot through an umbrella towards the chair. Another bounced off the wall behind me to light the foreground of the photo. Then a third bounced of the fair left hand wall to light up the left side. 

Room 2 

Again like above I expose for the windows. 

Way to dark. So I must figure out were to bounce all my light and fill in all the shadows.

                               

Final Result. 

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit www.BrianDohertyPD.com

Real Estate Lighting and Photography Boston, Massachusetts photography

Brian Doherty Real Estate Photography Shoot.

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit www.BrianDohertyPD.com

Brian Doherty Property Video

My first attempt at using a video slider at a property shoot.  Mixing smooth video and voice over audio. Not bad for a first attempt if I do say so myself.

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit www.BrianDohertyPD.com

Brian Doherty Winter 2012 This week in Photos

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit www.BrianDohertyPD.com

My First Real Estate Magazine Cover !!

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a great holiday season and did something fun to ring in the new year. 2012 is starting off right.  Things over here at Brian Doherty Photography and Design have been WICKED busy. Very excited to be on the front of The Real Estate Book. This is my first cover (hopefully the first of many). This was such a beautiful house in Hanover, MA.  In order to get the whole house in the shot, I had to stand on top of my car with my camera attached to a 7 ft mono pod.  Lucky nether myself or the camera lost our balance. 

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit www.BrianDohertyPD.com

In Real Estate a Picture is worth Thousands of Dollars.

A picture is can be worth a thousand words.....  in Real Estate its worth thousands of dollars. Next to listing a property on the local MLS and the internet, making the property look attractive to buyers is the most important thing an agent must do. With 80% of home buyers shopping for a home online (according to the NAR), the way your listings look is an important factor, if not the most important, in generating buyer interest. It's no secret, better-presented homes get more traffic and more buyer interest, therefore selling faster. More than ever, your listings must stand out from the crowd.

Brian Doherty Photography Real Estate | Advertising | Editorial

Commercial & Residential

 South Shore Boston based photographer specializing in Interior Photography for the Real Estate, Design and Construction Industries.

Call to book your appointment today 781-698-9650 or visit Home-Focused.com 

Its Been awhile

 Its been a while since my last post and I was going threw and purging photos when I came across this antique boat I shot in Boston Harbor last summer. This is probably one of my favorite photos I have done and though I would share. I took it with my Canon G10 which is a great camera by the way. Thats all, short and sweet.

Simple Home Staging For a More Appealing Photo

Here is a example of how a little simple home staging can greatly change the look and feel of a photo. Below we have a nice small table in a well lit room. Its cozy, bright and clean but it lacks any real wow factor. The chairs are pushed in under the table and the table is empty and boring. The space basically feels dull and uninviting. In order to change the look and feel of the room, I spent about 3 minutes preparing it to be photographed. Luckily every thing I needed was already in the home.

I am by no means a professional home stagger, but I do know that the key to home staging is to present the home in a manner to which potential home buyers can envision themselves living comfortably in the home. So I took a small plant from the kitchen, salt and pepper shaker and added some colorful funky plates and mugs. Adding these few things greatly improves the over all look and feel of a photo. Another easy thing to make the space more inviting was just a matter of opening up the chairs. As you can see doing so creates a much more flattering composition.

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Preparing Your Home for a Home Focused Photo Shoot

The online images of your home have to impress a buyer in 15 seconds or less before they dismiss your property as a non contender. Gone are the days when any old photo will do. If your images don’t look professional you risk losing a buyers interest in just a "click". As t

he saying goes “you only get one chance to make a first impression” so why waste it.

Below is a checklist given to Realtors so they may in turn provide it to the homeowners.

Importance of a good Headshot

I think it is very interesting to see how some real estate agents market themselves online. There have been a number of times I have clicked on the "About Me" page or have seen business cards with an out of focus, dark unflattering photo. It's no secret that 75% of people start their home/agent search on the web. So why is it when you have that split second chance to make a good first impression, you lose it by not having a professional head shot.

I'm not saying it's an absolute deal breaker, but of course you want that person to connect with you and unfortunately people are very judgmental. A picture can say a lot about a person their character, age, demeanor etc. So why not project that in your photo.

A poorly done headshot can say " Hey nice to meet you! I do things cheap, with as little effort as possible and sleep till noon because I hate going to work"

You want your photo to say " Hello, nice to meet you. I hold myself to a very high standard and do things properly and at 110%. I wake up at 6 am every morning and work out" haha that may be exaggerating but you get the point.

So why is it more agents and professionals have not had headshots done! Is it the price, the hassle, too camera shy, too lazy, don't think its important.....? Are they not serious about being a professional broker/agent? What ever the answer maybe, hopefully they will evaluate their image and want to be viewed as a professional.

What does your head shot say? Does it say I wake up at Noon or 6am?