Working out how much to charge can be confusing if you don’t know your numbers or the customers you’re servicing. First you need to know your cost of doing business, cost of goods, then you need to work out if people are willing to pay for the work you’re offering, because your local market will […]
Photography Workflow
Lightroom Import Settings: Get a head start on your editing
After you have download your images to your hard drive, organise and culled them it’s time to import your photos into Lightroom. But what are the best Lightroom import settings to use? In this tutorial I will be explaining what the settings mean in the Lightroom import dialogue box. I will also be offering some […]
10 Tips to prepare for your next photo session, so it’s a success
The topic of how to prepare for your next photo session is a subject a lot of photographers don’t talk about. I get it, it’s a boring dry topic that is not nearly as exciting as talking about post-processing or the latest camera equipment. If you want to succeed with your photography business. it’s necessary […]
Lightroom Export Settings For Social Media & Printing Photos ( visual guide )
Today we’re going to look at the Lightroom export settings needed to make your photos look good on social media and when printing them at a photo lab. Social media has made it easy for us to share our photos and get seen by a lot more people than just our family and friends. I’m […]
Folder Structure: Organising Your Photos
A Properly planned folder structure is the first step in organising your photos. In fact having a well organised folder structure for your photos to live in and a backup system that works are the foundations to a good photography workflow. The file structure I’m going to talk about is what I have been using […]
How Do I Crop My Photos For Printing and Make It Easy?
Today’s question is from Melissa who asks: Question: How Do I Crop My Photos For Printing? When I print my photos I get white space at the top or bottom of the photo. The attendant at the kiosk said i need to crop my photos. I’ve now noticed there is an option to crop with […]
What Should I Wear To A Photoshoot?
Today’s question is from Brian who asks: Question: What Should I Wear To A Photoshoot? I’m a portrait photographer and attended a friends wedding as a guest a little while back. I couldn’t help notice that the videographer was dressed very casually, cargo pants and a polo that seemed stretched and not ironed. While the […]
Culling Your Photos: Learn To Sort Your Photos Like A Pro
A little time spent culling your photos will save you a lot of time during the editing stage of your workflow. Don’t confuse yourself with rating or rejecting photos and then working out which photos to edit. It’s not the fastest, most efficient use of your time. By only tagging the photos that you wish […]
How To Recover Corrupted Photos From Memory Cards
Today’s question is from Benjamin and he asks: Question: The other day when downloading photos I noticed the folder system had some foreign characters and I could not access my photos. When I put the memory card back in the camera and tried to view the photos the word corrupt appear on the LCD Is […]
Should I Use One Big Catalog or Many Smaller Catalogs In Lightroom?
Today’s question is from Adam asks: Question: Should i put my photos in one big catalog or is it best to have lots of smaller catalogs? Answer: We discuss the topics – What is the Lightroom Catalog? What can the Catalog do for us? Searching and filtering your photos using exif and metadata Collections, different […]