Photography for Real Estate Exteriors: Taking and making professional first-impression images (Real Estate Photography Book 3)

Exterior fronts should be shot as high as possible, but never higher than the middle of the building’s height.

Backyards often benefit from showcasing the lawn. In these cases I tend to shoot at about waist to chest high.

Pools benefit from a variety of camera heights. Nine times out of ten you can shoot at eye level and be fine.

Standard Preprocessing I use these settings in most of my exterior presets.

If it is a still night, then ISO 100 or 200 would be fine, allowing you to shoot time-exposures between 1-5 seconds most of the time. If there is a breeze though, then it’s best to bump up your ISO, thus allowing you to use a faster shutter speed to avoid blur of trees, bushes, etc.

Using a preset in Lightroom you can turn a well-timed twilight shot

If you shot your twilight too early and you didn’t get an interior orange glow, there is a fairly simple fix, assuming you shot in brackets with multiple exposures. This will require some drastic changes to your settings, so in this case I recommend importing your RAW files directly into Lightroom instead of using OEM software to first convert to TIFFs.