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Sometimes we get some funny or really crap photos sent to us at work. When you consider these are suppose to be advertising properties for sale/the estate agents service you'd think they would make the effort to take good photos.

 

Just been sent this one, which they have taken from the drivers seat so you can see parts of the car and there is a car directly in front, which distracts from the house itself!! :lol:

 

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It does make you laugh, some people have no clue at all. Some estate agents actually employ a photographer or train the stuff so they can take better looking photos. You would also not believe how many camera phone photos we get as well, which are no good for newspaper printing!

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It does make you laugh, some people have no clue at all. Some estate agents actually employ a photographer or train the stuff so they can take better looking photos. You would also not believe how many camera phone photos we get as well, which are no good for newspaper printing!

A bit like trying to decipher what people mean when they write stuff........I take it you mean Staff! :D

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I had a job at an estate agents (for a day) where I was supposed to be setting up a computer system for them, but they also (since the only way they could afford me' was to get me doing other jobs!) wanted me to go out and take photos of properties. They were talking to me as though I was a 6-year old 'now make sure that you always put it back in this place', 'always make sure the batteries are ok' etc. 

 

Which is why I didn't go back the next day. 

 

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It does make you laugh, some people have no clue at all. Some estate agents actually employ a photographer or train the stuff so they can take better looking photos. You would also not believe how many camera phone photos we get as well, which are no good for newspaper printing!

A bit like trying to decipher what people mean when they write stuff........I take it you mean Staff! :D

 

 

Good spot Pete! :lol: Maybe I should've been working instead of posting!

 

I had a job at an estate agents (for a day) where I was supposed to be setting up a computer system for them, but they also (since the only way they could afford me' was to get me doing other jobs!) wanted me to go out and take photos of properties. They were talking to me as though I was a 6-year old 'now make sure that you always put it back in this place', 'always make sure the batteries are ok' etc. 

 

Which is why I didn't go back the next day. 

 

ttfn

 

I have never met any of them in person but have spoken to a few on the phone or by email and some come across as being really stuck up and talk down to you.

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Another one for you but it's the size this time. Someone supplied this photo which is 1.5cm x 2cm to fill a space of 6.5cm x 4.5cm!! It is very low quality in resolution and size. I wonder sometimes if these people actually think about what they're sending us! :lol:

 

This is what they supplied:
 
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If I used it in the space provided it would look like this, really crap isn't it, would that impress you:

 

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  • 2 months later...

Got mine up for sale at the moment. Currently doing the agent ring round. I didn't bother ringing the agents that have 'arty' 'trendy' or 'humorous' shots.

 

Give me traditional any day of the week. 

 

Some estate agents actually employ a photographer or contract the work out and they produce excellent images that we can use. One name that springs to mind is Savills but then most of their properties are worth several million so you expect them to look good! ;)

 

I worked on an advert earlier and they supplied word documents with the images just cut and pasted into it. When I separate the photo it looks crap, some are so bad I would rather they didn't show a photo at all but it's not down to me. I would be livid if that was my house I was trying to sell and that's how they portrayed it.

 

Here's one I received earlier!

 

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