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Hi Katz, I\'ve had a look at your webpages. I don\'t want to give you wave after wave of comments, I don\'t think that would help you really, so I\'ll give you 3 broad points 1. Your work for me doesn\'t stand out Don\'t take this too negatively, what I mean is it\'s very mainstream. It takes years to develop an individual style that (1) does not copy somebody else and (2) can be easily seen as your work. The problem is, with digital photography being so cheap, every Jack out there gets a camera and calls themselves a photographer; landscapes and portraits abound! Consequently real photographers have to work so much harder to make their work stand out. It\'s easy to take landscapes and portraits; it\'s difficult to take landscapes and portraits that are different, new or refreshing but this will be much more rewarding. 2. Exposure Your work is very dark, and I don\'t mean in a macabre, Edwardian sense. If you don\'t have access to Lightroom and you\'re not shooting in Raw, you should invest in a light metre. It\'s ok to say you want to work in a dark style in B&W, but this takes more than just stepping down your exposure a couple of stops, you should still see the detail in your work and in some of your photographs I can\'t see this so I would generally deem them to be underexposed. 3. Comments Don\'t focus on the good comments you get on Flickr et al, they honestly don\'t mean anything unless they are followed up with a sale. You have to find the people who will criticise your work properly. The hardest thing for me was having people tell me my work was bad. After I went away and had a sulk, I realised they were right and I had (have) a lot of work to do to move myself up a level. This doesn\'t mean putting your work on every forum online, if you do that you\'ll be lambasted with comments from jackasses all over the place who don\'t know what they\'re talking about, don\'t particularly care how they phrase responses and in general lack the social skills needed to interact with anybody. It\'ll not take long for someone to get demoralised with this type of approach and go off thinking they are a bad photographer. What is more useful is to find another successful photographer and ask them for some honest feedback. Hope some of this helps a bit. Steve

3 Answers  |  Asked By: katz  3

It really depends on what type of photographs you are going to be taking, e.g. portrait, product etc. Assuming you were going to do portrait photography, firstly you need a large room, ideally about 16 feet wide at the minimum and as deep as is possible so you can move back for group shots without having to zoom out, which distorts the photograph. Height is a major factor, much more so than most people realise, at least 12 feet would be suggested and anything above that is a bonus. In addition to the main room, you need a changing room, particularly important if you are going to shoot models, and a reception area so you don\'t meet clients in your studio and can show your work. After that you will need to equip your studio, so you are going to need a selection of flashes, diffusers, reflectors, backdrops, barndoors, coloured gels and so on. All this is the ideal however, if you have about €50,000 spare cash lying around you\'ll equip a nice studio. Unfortunately, if you\'re like me and you don\'t, you\'ll make do with 3 flashes, 2 backdrops and a 16 * 16 foot room and still produce some good work. At least I think my work is good anyway.

4 Answers  |  Asked By: Alao Adeleke  1

Without being smart, that\'s like asking how much you can earn in a year selling matches, sell enough matches and you will earn a lot. Your earnings will be dependent on where you are located and what area of photography you are going to target, both of these being deciding factors in how big your market will be. It\'s believed that weddings offer the biggest return, but I don\'t accept this to be the case; weddings are hard work and take a huge amount of time (both before and after the wedding date). When this is taken into account the pay per day is very little, much less than it would be through a portrait session. Portraits can pay well, how much you can charge for your services will depend on the type of client you are targeting and how much competition there is. Unfortunately portraits can be a relatively exhaustive resource for photographers; it\'s not generally repeat business unless you are in a lucrative area. The last major source of income in photography is by selling your work, either still life or model work. Like the above, how much you can make doing this will depend on the competition and, bluntly, how good you are. Usually a photographer will have built up a reputation before turning full time professional, this doesn\'t mean you can\'t charge, it just means it\'s sensible to have another main source of income to rely on as you build your business in photography.

1 Answer  |  Asked By: zacru  1

Hi, I think GIMP is probably the most widely used, or at least the one I hear most about. It\'s available to download directly from their site. Steve Source Link: http://www.gimp.org/

7 Answers  |  Asked By: Morpheuss  3

Hi, What you are saying doesn\'t really make sense, and by that I don\'t mean you are not making sense, I mean the file can\'t change after the photograph has been taken. Have you tried to take other photographs with the camera phone to see if this is repeated? Steve

2 Answers  |  Asked By: jan2010  1

Hi, You can use the adapter to add extra options to the front of the lens, such as wide-angle or telephoto lenses or filters. From my understanding, the adapter goes on first, and then the additional lens or filter, basically extending the use of you camera. Hope this help. Steve

3 Answers  |  Asked By: jdcnat  1