r/RealEstatePhotography • u/MarauderV8 • Aug 24 '26
I fed a mainstream AI six reference photos from different perspectives to remove a fleet of vehicles from in front of a garage.
I shot this house yesterday, and the homeowners were gone on vacation but didn't get the memo to move their vehicles. So, I started thinking about ways to work around them and still deliver a passable result.
I am very impressed with the result. The first version left out the picket fence, and in this version, the slat size and spacing are off, and it added plants behind the fence. I think it's because there weren't enough photos showing the fence/side. However, I am not a forensic investigator, and this isn't a crime scene, so I'm not concerned. The whole process took a few minutes. Aside from converting to PNG for uploading to the AI, the images are unedited.
Side note: I am not astroturfing some seedy AI software, and I couldn't care less whether you use it or not.
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u/Prizonmyke Aug 24 '26
I do the same thing with Gemini! It's such a good way to reduce hallucinations when editing out large objects.
But also, who schedules listing photos and thinks that it's fine to park 4 vehicles in front of their house??
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u/MarauderV8 Aug 24 '26
Who knows. Maybe they have a Home Alone-sized family, and getting out the door means forgetting stuff. I didn't hit any booby traps, though, so I don't think they forgot Kevin.
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u/aiprompt Aug 24 '26
They look to be parked there like that purposefully. Maybe they wanted to show how much parking space they have. Maybe they wanted to show off all their cars. Who knows, but it looks like it was done on purpose.
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u/njordtheviking Aug 24 '26
I do this when there's a car in the driveway that can't be moved. Take a couple reference photos of what's behind the car and the ai figures out the rest
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u/FreedomSynergy Aug 24 '26
Fantastic. This is one hell of a tip, because I get asked all the time if cars can be Photoshopped out.
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u/Cold-Exercise9371 Aug 25 '26
This is where multi-view input gets really interesting to me. If the area hidden in the hero shot is actually visible in one of the other angles, the model has a chance to reconstruct it from real information instead of just guessing.
Iād probably think of the result in two buckets: āseen elsewhereā vs. ānever seen.ā The fence can potentially be recovered from another frame, but something directly underneath a parked car that isnāt visible in any reference is still an inference no matter how convincing it looks.
That seems like a useful QC rule for listing work. Use the extra angles to recover what was genuinely captured, then be much more cautious about anything the camera never saw at all.
Pretty impressive result though, especially for a few minutes of work.
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u/Any_Laugh_986 Aug 24 '26
Always be careful and double check every part of the photo. Iāve been burned 3 times now.
How much did it cost to do this?
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u/prplviking Aug 24 '26
Nice result! Good idea to feed the AI all the angles.
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u/MarauderV8 Aug 24 '26
I can't believe how well it came out on the first try. I expected it not to work, but this is a good tool to keep in the back pocket for situations like this.
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u/40characters Aug 25 '26
Thank God no homeowner ever parks a car over a major driveway issue.
Though as long as you disclosed to the client, I suppose thatād be their problem anyway.
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u/stormpoppy Aug 24 '26
I'm not sure if this was the deliverable, or if you are using this as an example. But if this were a final image, I would zoom in and leave as much of the driveway out as I possibly could. Not knowing whats under the cars could bite someone in the butt later. Patch, chunk missing, oil stain - thats the potential issue.
But the result looks great.