Foto-Biz: The Business of Being a Photographer — Lightroom Q&A — Canon 7D

Getting Better At The Photo Thing

Here's another one from What The Duck.

My Opinion About The Canon 60D

Lightroom & Photos Directory Structure

When you install Lightroom. it install itself onto the C, local drive. The structure is fixed and decided by Adobe's programmers. But the directory structure of where to store your photos is up to you. Proper directory structure is extremely important! Without proper directory structure you can't:

1. Do proper backups
2. Process the photos
3. Find photos
4. Use photo processing software: batch...

Disabling the right click for your photo website

Every once in a while I stumble onto discussions of photographers whose photos have been pirated / stolen by the worst scum of the earth. The stolen photo was used on the front cover of Time, Life, Fortune or whatever…

Then the standard recommendation is:

Customer Service

On 11-Nov-2008 Grover Sanschagrin did an interview of Craig Mitchelldyer at Photoshelter. The interview is available at: My Nose, Your Business.

Could Have Been A Canon 60D Review

It's then end of August 2010 and Canon has announced the Canon 60D, the replacement for the Canon 50D. I'm sure that you can find the specs everywhere on the web. Since so many people are criticizing Canon for the 60D. They must have access to it.

I want to do a full review, but I don't have one. And since this is not stopping any other “expert” from reviewing the 60D. I'm going to close my eyes and imagine holding it in my hands.

Lightroom 3: The Shortcut Keys For Comparing Photos in Library Module

Adobe has done a great job with Lightroom 3 by keeping the same keys as Lightroom 2. Amost all of the shortcut keys, the 235 of them, from Lightroom 2 work in Lightroom 3. If that's not enough for you, John Beadworth wrote a plugin to add your own shortcut keys. Of all of these shortcut keys, I use a couple of dozens, like P R… Please note than some of these shortcuts use positions that the fingers, at least mine, were not built for.

Comparing photos in the Library module

Successful Email Subject Lines

With the current spam bots, I get between 12,0000 and 15,000 spam emails. Yes that's right twelve thousands spam emails, that's at the mail server. Between the mail server, and my email program, only a couple of spams a day make it through.

What makes people open and read an email? The subject line. Here is a list of the best email subject lines used for marketing from Mail Chimp

Lightroom: Crop Module

The crop module. You didn't even know that it existed. Normally, you switch to the Develop module and either click on the Crop tool or R.

1. It turns out that the R is also available in the Library module. Lightroom will switch you to the Develop module and start the Crop tool. Now depending on the memory usage and what was done before, it may take a few seconds. Lightroom needs to load or to render the 1:1 preview. All images in the Develop module are always loaded as a 1:1 preview.
2. Once in the Crop tool, you can press O, the letter O to switch to the different overlays.
3. Once in the Crop tool, you can press Ctrl-Shift-R or Cmd-Shift-R to reset the crop to the original size.
4. Once in the Crop tool, you can press A to use the same Aspect Ratio for the next photo.
5. Once in the Crop tool, you can press L to turn the lights out for the background. Looks cool, no distracting background, and you can keep on using the L to return to the normal view.

Where's Nikon?

I starting to get “pissed off” at Nikon? Where are they? Where's the big technology announcement? Where are the new models?

• Canon has just announcement a working CMOS sensor 120 megapixels in the APS-H format. The same format as the Canon 1DMk4. If you think that the megapixel wars are over, think again. That's a 155 megapixels on a full frame and 97 megapixels on a Canon APS-C! But where are the lenses to resolve all these extra megapixels?
• Sony has just announced their new Sony A33 and A55 with a pellicle mirror to allow for continuous focus even during videos. No more flip mirrors, no more vibration, much cheaper construction…

Not Even In The League

Everybody, and their dog, thinks that a camera's all they need to get into the business of photography. On average, I spend about $6000 Canadian per year on equipment: that's camera updates, accessories, computers, software upgrades… I'm chicken feed, a small potato. Rod Mar wrote, on the PhotoShelter Blog, an article about doing Football photography. That's American Football for everybody else, because what the North American are calling soccer is football for everybody else in the world².

It's a very interesting article, but at the end of the article Rod Mar list his equipment: