What a 1.2 million dollar dorm room looks like

MrSquished

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I shoot real estate photography so I've seen a lot of places. This was the first dorm room I've shot. Basically it's a 1.2 million dollar condo in Hoboken, NJ that a couple bought their kids to use while they attend a well-regarded local university. So basically a dorm I guess. They also hired a fairly expensive interior designer to furnish and 'stage' the place, which was my client. He wanted this shoot for his portfolio/website. Not pictures are the two bathrooms, a small guest bed loft, and a small loft office.

Must be nice. Here are a few of the photos. Cheers!







 

nakedfrog

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I shoot real estate photography so I've seen a lot of places. This was the first dorm room I've shot. Basically it's a 1.2 million dollar condo in Hoboken, NJ that a couple bought their kids to use while they attend a well-regarded local university. So basically a dorm I guess. They also hired a fairly expensive interior designer to furnish and 'stage' the place, which was my client. He wanted this shoot for his portfolio/website. Not pictures are the two bathrooms, a small guest bed loft, and a small loft office.

Must be nice. Here are a few of the photos. Cheers!
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with this assessment.
 
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momeNt

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Hopefully they have a maid and a chef hired to look after the place.
 

Scarpozzi

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Bah! The light over the dining room table is crooked. I don't care how close you are to the Ferry to Manhattan.....it's still Jersey and whoever lives there is still trash.
 
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MrSquished

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Clearly the word dorm room was written for effect - since that's what we called it at the shoot for fun. Obviously it's a real estate investment in a very hot real estate market in a pretty uppity town with proximity to NYC and amenities. But for now it was bought so 1 kid, and then another, can use it to live in while going to university.

Some people are so uptight
 

Scarpozzi

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Clearly the word dorm room was written for effect - since that's what we called it at the shoot for fun. Obviously it's a real estate investment in a very hot real estate market in a pretty uppity town with proximity to NYC and amenities. But for now it was bought so 1 kid, and then another, can use it to live in while going to university.

Some people are so uptight
Don't take my statements as being anything other than satire. It's pretty nice....awesome location. Definitely a nice shag pad for a college kid with little regard for anything.
 

MrSquished

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Don't take my statements as being anything other than satire. It's pretty nice....awesome location. Definitely a nice shag pad for a college kid with little regard for anything.

My bad. Maybe I'm being too serious today

Yeah that kid should get fucking laid if he knows how to play his stacked deck of cards right
 

clamum

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Sheit dawg. Seems like with that place you could pull in quite a bit of snapper. Unless you're like me of course in college and just play video games and get wasted (sans poon). Yeah I'm a badass what of it.
 

zinfamous

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That's disgusting, really. I guess this is what happens when people grow up with stuff like Saved by the Bell: College Years and Friends and think that they are realistic representations of those type of people, at that point in their lives, and that type of lifestyle.

Man, looks like these kids aren't going to learn a fucking thing about life at the exact time when they should be.
 
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madoka

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Some of my clients are filthy rich. I'm talking Mideast royalty rich. I've been to their homes.

Most you guys have no idea how the super wealthy live. It's insane. To them, that is a minimalist pauper's dorm room.
 
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Paladin3

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Nice work. Photo questions: What is the 35mm full frame equivalent of the 10mm lens you are using on that Olympus? Any correction for the wide angle perspective done in post processing or is that as shot? Is that all available lighting, or are you adding lights? Are you gelling your lights to match the available lighting if so? I see a bit of blue/green cast from the window light, but could be anything on my uncalibrated monitor. Have you ever though about actually changing bulbs in the home to all match for better color? Or do you think that would be overboard except on maybe a 1.2 Million dollar dorm, lol? Are you using a really low contrast setting in camera for detail in the shadows and to not blow out the highlights too bad? Shooting raw, I assume, and massaging in post processing? Have you ever tried any of the cameras with special HDR modes for real estate photography?
 

MrSquished

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Nice work. Photo questions: What is the 35mm full frame equivalent of the 10mm lens you are using on that Olympus? Any correction for the wide angle perspective done in post processing or is that as shot? Is that all available lighting, or are you adding lights? Are you gelling your lights to match the available lighting if so? I see a bit of blue/green cast from the window light, but could be anything on my uncalibrated monitor. Have you ever though about actually changing bulbs in the home to all match for better color? Or do you think that would be overboard except on maybe a 1.2 Million dollar dorm, lol? Are you using a really low contrast setting in camera for detail in the shadows and to not blow out the highlights too bad? Shooting raw, I assume, and massaging in post processing? Have you ever tried any of the cameras with special HDR modes for real estate photography?

I tend to shoot wider than most real estate photographers, some of those shots are at an FF equiv of 14mm, though not all. I shoot from between 14-18mm for my interiors. Most of my shoots are in smaller spaces and that 14mm comes in handy, especially for smaller bedrooms and bathrooms. My lens is a 14-28mm ultra-wide FF equiv micro 4/3 on an Olympus OM-D EM1 MkII. I just recently started shooting at 14mm though, previously my lens was an 18-36mm FF equiv ultra wide.

I get my lines as correct as possible in the camera both using the in-camera leveling plus my own additional adjustments, and then correct with Adobe Lightroom's transform settings in post. For this shoot I used no additional lighting besides ambient. I do use a powerful hotshoe METZ flash for other shoots so I can get the window views, but with ceilings this high it was probably pointless so I didn't bother. The light temperature in this place was probably the toughest thing really. Everything is shot in RAW, imported into Lightroom, exported for HDR in Photomatix then re-imported into Lightroom for additional processing - I have a little HDR Awesomeness preset I created and use for every shot, plus tweak the lines, exposure and white balance a bit more mostly. No special settings in camera.

My paygrade is not high enough to change lightbulbs and bring in lots of lighting. The going rate for real estate photography for realtors around here is about $120 per shoot. That includes travel time, on-site and editing. I work for myself.

A high end architectural magazine is probably not going to hire me - my clients are 99% agents with some designers and contractors mixed in. I have shot properties in the millions of dollars but are usually sub 1 million - anywhere from 250K to 1 million. Although this week I shot a 1.65 million dollar brownstone, a 1.25 million dollar 2 family and this 1.2 million dollar loft. Real estate is expensive around here. I live within a few miles of NYC in NJ.
 
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K1052

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That's disgusting, really. I guess this is what happens when people grow up with stuff like Saved by the Bell: College Years and Friends and think that they are realistic representations of those type of people, at that point in their lives, and that type of lifestyle.

Man, looks like these kids aren't going to learn a fucking thing about life at the exact time when they should be.

Is now a good time to tell you that Bill Gates bought his son a $1.2M house in Hyde Park to live in while attending UofC?
 

Zeze

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I hope hoboken and edgewater continue to explode in real estate so my home value can go up.
 
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