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Photographers who don't do well have a way of blaming everything and anything except for their business skills. If you have a product or service that people want, and you know how to market it and ...

I may have jumped the gun. It does say "4 portrait photographers shoot the same model". I may have read into it "4 photographers create a portrait of the same subject." I guess when I read...

Ok. Fun little shoot. Now, and I say this as a portrait photographer, pick a "normal, everyday person", not a young pretty professional model who knows how to pose and look good. If your a...

As a former commercial shooter, one that shot A LOT of chrome and shiny stuff for the high end auto and motorcycle industry (camshafts, helmets, chrome engine parts, etc.)  I would not recommend ...

My suggestion is to ditch the reflector and use a large scrim.  Very easily made from anything to make a frame and then some diffusion material like vellum. One way, buy some PVC piping and make a ...

I see this is your first post.  This is always a red flag to me when things like this are asked. You say you "need" to start a photo studio?  Why?  Are you ready?  Do you know how to run a ...

Is there a reason you have to shoot wide open?  Focus has to dead on.  It is not the sharpest aperture to use.  But, a lot do shoot that way.  Just saying. Anyway, I shoot a lot of ...

No.  Your camera actually measures the flash separately.  Even if your ARE using a programmed mode, it is still measuring the flash separately. Well, this is where using anything auto can throw ...

Honestly, I wouldn't start with softboxes.  For one, your using speed lights.  They already don't put out a lot of power.  I'd recommend either umbrellas or brollyboxes/Umbrella Boxes.  Brolly ...

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I will be probably one of the few to give you good advice. Know that I have been a studio portrait photographer for over 20 years. Yes, your "photography skills" are fine. The only thing you have ...

How seriously do you actually need a built in cyc?  I've worked in three studios that had them.  Rarely needed it.  If we did, it usually was something that a 12 foot roll of vinyl flooring ...

Why are you even considering an umbrella?  I read a lot of posts on here with people doing very small, simple events and thinking they need all this fancy lighting. This is a small party.  But even ...

Yes, you can use any kind of lighting you like.  Heck, even just nice window light is a great option.  Some even prefer it.  But your at the mercy  of mother nature and of course can only shoot ...

Well, I shoot corporate events all the time.  Just finished 3 days with NCR.  Our studio usually bills out $150 per hour for new clients.  This includes editing/retouching.   However, we only ...

Ok.  Here's the thing.  Learn "light control" and you could use a 60 watt bulb and create beautiful images.  It's not just "buy this modifier, put it here."  It goes way beyond that.  It's about ...

I of course see the humor.  But I don't think it's a very effective.  As someone who has photographed thousands of couple and family portraits, I know the most important person is the wife.  She ...

The quality of todays jpegs coming from a camera made in the last 4 years or so can produce a very high quality image. As I stated in an earlier response, I shoot pretty much full time doing ...

The problem with trade is abut 99% of the time, someone gets screwed. And in this case, guess who it will be? Oh sure, they agree up front but then down the road it's "Didn't I get you into enough ...

Well, he did show he used an Elinchrom Rotalux 135cm Octa on his military portraits so yes, it will create a different light than a Softlighter.  A softlighter is an umbrella type modifier with a ...