Sigma 10-22mm Wide Angle- Great step to better interiors.

I originally had bought a Nikon D50 a couple of years ago and it came with a 18-50mm lens.

I just wasn't happy with the 18mm for my widest setting. I felt at times I was not getting the feel of the room for my home sellers. In smaller rooms, I felt like I was photographing furniture.

To enhance my real estate photography for my home sellers, I decided to get a wider angle lens. I found very quickly they could get quite expensive. I ended up with the Sigma 10-22mm. I found it to bea good balance between cost and benefit. You can purcase on for around $450.00 and you can get it in all the popular camera mounts.

There is definitely some perspective distortion that you will tend to get with any wide angle lens as well as a little bit of barrell distortion on the lower end of the zoom. Overall I have been quite pleased.

Below is an example of a living room photographed with the Sigma vs a point and shoot camera. With the point and shoot you feel like your shooting furniture, with the wider lens you can get the feel of this room.

Again, a decent sized room approx 14 x14, but you can get the feel of this room.

This room is approx 30x30 you can definely get the feel of the spce with the wide angle lens. I could have gone wider but I thought the furniture was getting to far away. (perspective distortion will exaggerate distances)

The next couple of shots are example of very tight shots that would never have been any good without an extreme wide angle.

Bedroom was 9x10

This Sunroom was 8x14

Now a tough one, a 6x11 Kitchen

As the internet gets more powerful are homebuyer are making more and more decision based on what they see online. The days of putting up one photo and getting them to call are over. I am sure we all have had buyers who think the interior must be bad because there are no photographs of the inside of the home.

I have noticed over the years as I have improved my skills at photographing houses it definitely draws more traffic and I can sell for more money and faster. You can compel valid buyers to see the home with great photos on the internet vs mediocre or bad photos. The listing with great photos stand out and shine above the competition!!