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So, right now I'm at 250th, one over 250th shutter speed. If you've been wanting to learn how to shoot real estate videos, but aren't sure what shots to get or what camera settings to use, then this video is for you. I'm going to walk through an entire house and show you the exact shots and settings I get as I'm shooting so you can just copy exactly what I do and start making killer real estate videos that clients will love. And be sure to watch to the end to see the final video edit. So, let's go.
So, I got to raise the aperture when I'm outside because if you don't, it's going to be too blown out. So, right now I'm at 250th, one over 250th shutter speed, f16, and my ISO set to auto. Right now, it's showing 320. And I'm just going to do a straight push in all the way to the front door. So, I would say that this is my grand entrance shot. And let's see. And change my settings. 250th, f3.2, and, um, yeah, that's it.
So, I'm going to try to get the longest walk that I can. I'm going to start from back here and I'm going to do like a curved push in. And I'll get a detailed shot of this, but I think I'd like to get a second shot going the opposite direction so we can see both sides of the room. It also kind of reveals the room behind us as well. [clears throat] Just doing a side to side motion. And that's it. [sighs] Let's see. I might, I think I'll do a detailed shot of that. So, I got to kind of make a mental note of all this. Same thing with this. I'm just going to do a curved push in for the kitchen. Cool. All right.
So, some things I want to keep in mind, maybe a detailed shot of the faucets, something showing the chairs so that it's obvious to the viewer that this is bench seating right here. And then we want to get that. And then I also want to do the same thing over here where I'm getting the opposite side. I might not use all of these shots, but I'm just going to take them and then see what looks good in the edit. Side to side movement. And that's it for this room.
This room's a little challenging right here because it's a tight space. I guess I could, you know, maybe walk into this room, but I've done that a bunch of times or I've done it a couple times already. I don't know if it's going to be repetitive. So, I'm going to see if I can just walk straight toward the room. And then edit that in post. I'm going to do it a couple times and then I might reverse that in post.
A lot of times I would say, you know, if you got a really tiny bathroom, might skip it. But I mean, look how this bathroom looks. It looks kind of amazing. It's very eclectic looking. And I want to make sure that we highlight that because I think that's an important selling feature. So, I'm just going to do a straight push in. And I'm going to do the same thing in this room. Hold on. So, that's a walk-in closet. It's nice, but I don't think for the video it's necessary. Another straight push in. Cool.
And then we have a pretty cool main bathroom here. So, I'm going to tilt my camera down just a little bit just so I can actually see it. I want to see that tub. If I have it my camera, if I have my vertical straight, I don't really see the tub unless I get down really low like this. And if I do that, then I feel like I'm kind of at a low angle to the sink. It feels like, you know, miniature height, and I want to be up here so I can see things a little bit better. So, it's okay if you break vertical sometimes. And that's what I'm going to do here. And I'm just going to angle in and turn as I go in the room.
Then I might, I'm trying to look to see if there's any fixtures here that look like we could do detail shot. I might try to get a detail shot of this. You have to be really careful cuz if it's not super super legit and perfect, um, it's going to show up and it won't look good. So we don't want to have any hard water or anything like that. Oops. This almost looks like it's brand new, but not quite. That hard water is definitely going to show up and I don't want to do that. So, I might not do any shots in here.
I do like this. I want to show, I want to showcase this. Oh, I like that, too. Um, so I'll probably get another shot in here. Uh, more of a detail shot. One of the desk and then one of the view outside. But I'll leave those for the longer lens. And then here, normally I would try to get a shot just like walking out so we see how we get from the inside to the outside. The only thing that I'm not digging though is like you can see up here there's not a lot of rust, but like the paint's peeling and stuff like that. And that's not something I want to highlight.
So, I think what I'm going to do is I'm just going to start from outside and get a long straight shot. And again, I got to, when I get outside, we got to, um, change our settings. So, I got to up my aperture so that my shot's not blowing out. So, I'm going to go to f11. I think we'll probably be okay. And I'm just going to do a straight push in to the backyard. Cool. And let's see. So, these all just say for detail shots. And then one shot here showing the back of the house. And I'll use that post as something that's it, sort of just gives us a reference as to where we're standing. Okay, cool.
So, when we get out here to do detail shots, I'll show a detail shot of this. Um, I may try to do a detail shot going in this direction. So, we see that, but we also allude to the ADU, and that will lead us into the next shot going into the ADU. And so, I'm going to have to change my settings again. So, I'm at F7. So, we have the mirror right there, and I don't want to see myself in the shot. I'm going to bring my exposure down, my f-stop down, so my ISO isn't up so high. If I left it at f7, right now my ISO is at about 1,600, which is fine, but I want to try to clean it up as much as possible. So, might as well go to f something like f3.2. That'll bring me down to ISO 400.
And so, the way I try to avoid or the way I can avoid getting myself in the shot is to just sort of elude to the bathroom. We're not going to walk all, I mean, we can walk all the way in, but we're just going to have to cut it before we get to that part. So, we'll cut it there and maybe try to do some sort of detail shot. Kitchen shot. We'll get a couple of details of this, too. Realtor really wants to sell the ADU. That's the big selling feature in here. So, I'm going to overshoot this just a little bit. And then he wanted to make sure that we got this because it has its own patio. Adjust my aperture. We're going to go back up to, let's see, f11. Let's do a straight walk out. Okay.
And then he wants to show the seating. So we'll do the same thing here. I want to, I don't want to show again this door frame right here. I want to keep that sort of not the focus of attention. So I'm going to go to f3.5. If you're ever shooting something like this and you want to get an exterior shot and you want a shallow depth of field, there's two ways that you can accomplish that. One, you can up your shutter speed. That way you're not blown out. Or you can use an ND filter. I just choose to up my shutter speed. Um, even though that's sort of breaking the rules, um, it's never been a big issue for my edits. In this case, doesn't have to be done, though. Okay.
And then I also want to show the address here. Let's see. I think I'm going to do that with a detail shot out here. So, I'll save that. All right. Now, we're going to roll through here and get some detail shots. Let's see. I think that I'm going to stay right here, even though I'm pretty far away. But that's kind of the beauty of having a longer lens, too. This is a 24 to 70. Right now, I'm at almost 70 mm. And I'm going to stay right here. I got my aperture at f3.5. And I think what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to lock off my ISO instead of having it on auto because what happens is when you go behind here, the exposure changes. Right now, it's at 3200. And then when I go here, the exposure is going to drop. And you're going to see that in the edit. So, I don't like that. So, I want to keep the exposure constant for this particular shot. When you're doing detail shots, like reveal shots, it's probably a good idea to do that. Cool.
Going to get something of this. Now, for this one, I'm blinking right here. We're overexposed. I do want to keep a shallow depth of field. So, in order to do that, I got to raise up my shutter speed. I want to use this as, uh, something that I am revealing from. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to put this plant down here. I'm going to go a little bit wider because I want to see that doorway right there. Okay, let's see if we can get the chairs. And now the sink. All right. So, I want to get something showing this desk. I don't really have anything to reveal from, but that's all right. We don't have to do it every time.
Got to raise up my shutter speed here cuz I'm pointed outside. Okay. And I'll leave it up cuz we're going to head outside now. So, that sun is causing a little bit of glare. Might be all right. I'm going to use this post as like a foreground element. I don't know if I can get both a doorway in this shot. I think so. All right. See if we can get something cool in here. Lower my shutter speed. And we're at 800 ISO. I'm going to lock it off for this shot. Okay. Definitely want to showcase this cuz this looks like very clean. Looks like it's new. Set my ISO back to auto. Okay, I think that's probably it for inside here.
So, I do want to get that address. Can I? Okay. Going to see if I can get this from out here and got to raise the shutter speed. So, I'm actually going up to like 800th of a second on my shutter. I'm going to go down. I'm going to make it a little bit wider. I'm at like, uh, between 35 and 50. I'm sort of using the fence as a foreground element. Perfect.
Okay, we're going to take a look at the final video, but before we do, I did want to mention that I do have a free PDF guide with a complete shot list that you can use if you're just getting started. And I also have an effects pack specifically made for real estate video creators. This is for Final Cut users. And I'll leave all of that in the description. And if you like this video, be sure to hit the like and subscribe button to see more videos just like this. And now, here is the final video edit.
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