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So you want to be a professional photographer? (or run any other type of business)
The question is often asked, “How much should I charge for my work”? The answer is that you charge as much as you need to charge. The principles are the same in any business. Work out your overheads, and then … Continue reading
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Camera sensor size … what’s the difference?
There are often questions asked about what is the difference between a “full frame” sensor on a camera and a “cropped” sensor. This will hopefully explain the differences. A “Full frame” camera has a sensor the same as size as … Continue reading
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Portrait Photography.
What is a portrait? According to Wikipedia, a portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. I have also heard the word portrait refer to pictures … Continue reading
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Book Review “How To Shoot A Reportage” by Enzo Dal Verme
Milan/Paris-based photographer and writer Enzo Dal Verme has written a new photography manual titled, “How To Shoot A Reportage” – Brutally practical tips and tricks”. Reportage has various meanings but relates to a journalistic reporting of events or telling a story … Continue reading
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A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.
The Internet is a wonderful thing. The amount of information available on almost anything is often too much to analyse. Part of the reason for this is anyone can contribute. Average people can now contribute to encyclopaedias without any qualifications … Continue reading
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Your Digital Legacy – Part 5. Storage and Backup.
For storage I have based mine on popular American commercial photographer Chase Jarvis’s solution. See http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/06/workflow-and-backup-for-photo-video/ Chase uses Apple Xserve servers connected to a bank of Fibre Channel Hard Drives and TimeMachine to automatically backup, along with an off site … Continue reading
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Your Digital Legacy – Part 4. Computers – Get a Mac
Your image is just a data file, or a collection of zeroes and ones called BITS (BInary digiTS) of information stored in a computer memory. For a modern digital SLR camera shooting a 20Megapixel (20M) image there can be 240 … Continue reading
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Your Digital Legacy – Part 3. File Numbering
When I bought my first Canon digital camera in 2005 it was very disappointing. I used it a few times and went back to film. The camera gradually passed from person to person and became the tool for eBay snaps … Continue reading
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Your Digital Legacy – Part 2. Catalogues
At the mere mention of an embarrassing moment a mother can disappear into a room and emerge within two minutes with a fifty-year-old photo of Johnny in the bath aged 3. Aunt Mary has even written on the back in … Continue reading
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Your Digital Legacy – Part 1. Paper Lasts
When King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215, copies were made and distributed throughout the land so that all could be made aware of the new legal order. Nearly 800 years later four of those original paper … Continue reading
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