Biz (396 pages in category)  

1. $100 Wedding  What happens when somebody wants to pay me only $100 for their wedding
2. $9 per hour  Reactions to a Craig's list post of looking for an assistant for $9/hr
3. 0% Financing  How to get 0% financing
4. 25% Off  Usually I don't like to give discounts, but this time I gave 25% off, Why?
5. 32Gb Flash Card  How to corrupt photo flash cards
6. 640k  Quote from Bill Gates about hardware
7. A Friend In Need  A customer of mine went bankrupt and now needs my help
8. A Sucker's Born Everyday  Many photographers are suckers, they buy a camera because such and such photographer uses...
9. A Very Wise Wacko  Wisdom come from many people, even the unexpected one
10. Advertising vs. Marketing  What's the difference between advertising and marketing
11. Aggressive Pricing  How much can you charge, a lot if you ask the right question
12. All Things Being Equal  When people compare, they always talk about all things being equal, but they are not
13. Alligators  Alligators and competition
14. Amateur photographer vs. professional photographer  How do I differentiate myself as a professional photographer from an amateur
15. An Army March On Its Stomach  How to treat people around you
16. Anonymous Guilty Party  I've been holding on, but I couldn't resist anymore. At least the guilty parties will remain anonymous
17. Another one from the Dumb Department  Some people are dumb, they decide to stand-up for their rights when the cop has a gun and is willing to use it
18. Appointment with the Vet  People are not listening, even when I say the most outrageous things
19. Archival vs. 200 years  The right choice of word will help sell photos
20. Are You A Yes Man Or A No Man  When somebody asks a question, how do answer: Yes or No
21. Are You Believable?  As a photographer are you trustworthy?
22. Are You Missing Some Sales?  Because he forgot, a friend of mine lost $3500 in licensing fees
23. Are You Selling A Service or Are You Selling Photos?  Are you selling a service or are you selling photos. Hint you make more money selling a service
24. Are You Selling The Steak Or The Sizzle?  What are selling? The steak or the sizzle or why are paparazzi raking all the money
25. Ask For The Order  Quote from Michael Bloomberg
26. Audit  5 years ago, I was audited by the tax people. The audit took 45 minutes only
27. Baby On Board  Why do people place the baby on board sticker on their car? Will I crash in a tree instead of their car?
28. Backups: Real World  Backup is important, but do you know if it works? Only a bare metal recovery will tell you
29. Badmouthing The Competition  Never badmouth your competition, but you can differentiate yourself from your competition
30. Bailout  Both GM and Chrysler are getting their bailout, where's mine?
31. Bamboozle  Are you reading carefully the fine print? This is were they will get you
32. Becoming A Professional Photographer  Another great cartoon from What The Duck on becoming a professional photographer
33. Being A Pro  What does it mean to be a professional photographer?
34. Being True To Yourself  What does it mean to be true to yourself. But do you know who you are?
35. Benchmarks  Before doing changes, you need to have a baseline to evaluate the changes
36. Billings  Many photographers complain about how long it takes to be paid, but are you doing your accounting?
37. Blackmail  A customer refuses to pay for photos unless she gets more than was agreed
38. Boring  Doing the accounting is boring but it's critical to know how much you have to pay and who owes you money
39. Borrow  Quote about borrowing photos
40. Build A Brand  Can photographers build a brand?
41. Build Your Portfolio  How to build your portfolio according to what The Duck
42. Burn Rate  Venture funds use the burn rate metric to judge their investments, but photographers should use the burn rate in a different way
43. Business Curse  Brand new, innovative way of collecting from a customer
44. Camera-advice  
45. Cameras and Competition  How much competition do photographers have?
46. Can I Get A Copy?  What the duck had this great cartoon for when people ask: "Can I get a copy of that?"
47. Can I Sell These Photos?  The most difficult part in becoming a professional photographer is starting. Where and How?
48. Can You Help Me Justify Spending This Much?  Why hide the prices, especially when it will be expensive, justify it.
49. Can You Shut Up?  Often photographers talk themselves out of a job. They need to learn to shut-up
50. Can You Take Criticism?  Can you take criticism? How do you deal with criticism?
51. Can't Afford To Go Out Of Business  When customers ask for discount, and I don't want to give them the discount, I say...
52. Can't Win?: Change The Rules  What should photographers do when they have to compete
53. Canceled Shoot  One of the most often used scam on photographers is cancelling the photo shoot and then asking for a refund
54. Canon-7d-almost-review  
55. Cash For Clunkers  The cash for clunkers program, from the US government just ended for car buyers. That doesn't mean that the program has ended for you.
56. Cash Is King  Cash is the most important measure, not AR or AP but cash
57. Cashmere Sweaters  The recession is here, but Kos men's wear boutique is not lowering its prices
58. Charging for Travel  There are great debates about whether photographers should charge for travel or not, here's mine
59. Cheapskates  Choose your customers carefully. Only deal with customers that will pay
60. Christian Science Monitor  The newspapers are folding, retreating, laying off. Now the Christian Science monitor is going to the online model only
61. Clean Socks  How you present yourself is very important when you are a photographer
62. Clearance Sale  Are you giving discounts? Then customers will ask for more discounts
63. CNN Trade Secrets  How to become a photojournalist according to CNN
64. Comparative Advantage  Quote from Peter Peterson of the Blackstone Group
65. Compete With A Lower Priced Photographer  How do you compete when the next photographer is cheaper than you
66. Compete With Free  How do you compete when the next photographer give his photos for free
67. Complaint Department  How to deal with customers that complain about your photos
68. Copyrights Warning  Often people update some information on their website, but forget to update the copyright dates
69. Corrupted Techie  Techie destroys computers and files at my largest customer
70. Cost Cutting  A customer wants me cut my prices, so I examine what cost I can cut
71. Cost of Doing Business — Part 1  Do you know how much it cost you to stay in business?
72. Cost The Same  The cost of producing a photo is the same if you do a good job or a bad job, but the customer will notice
73. Costs In Producing Photos  Do you know how much it cost to produce a photo
74. Coward  Since 11-Sep-2001, I have become a coward and don't stand for my rights when a rent-a-cop threatens...
75. Craft fairs: a waste of time?  Is it worthwhile to have a booth at craft fairs
76. Craft Fairs: How To Ignore Customers  I was at Granville Island and saw photographers with booth ignoring potential customers
77. Craig's List  Craig’s list is free, but do you want to be associated with all the cheapskates
78. Credit Cards  When to use a credit card and when not to use them as a professional photographer
79. CRM vs. CEM  Are you building relationships with your customers or are you trying to eliminate your customers
80. Customer Finally Sees The Light  A very common problem for photographers is when the customer bought photos and now want to use the photo for other things without paying more
81. Customer Service  How do photographers provide customer service
82. Cutting Corners  Quote from Rob Haggart, a photo editor
83. Daylight Saving Time  Daylight Saving Time is here, but have you updated your cameras?
84. Daylight Saving Time — Fall 2009  Now is the fall 2009 and you have changed the time on your computers, what about your cameras?
85. Daylight Saving Time — Spring 2009  Now is the spring 2009 and you have changed the time on your computers, what about your cameras
86. Deadbeats  How to deal with deadbeat customers
87. Deadlines  One case where my customer didn't care about the deadlines or I though so, but
88. Deflation  Recession and deflation are scary words and concept, learn from an industry that lives with it for the last 25 years
89. Delays  I am a procrastinator, new year’s resolutions
90. Delusions of grandeur  Some organizations have delusions of grandeur and think that the whole world revolve around them
91. Didn't Get The Photo Shoot  My advice on what to do if you don't get the photo shoot
92. Discount: YouTube  A YouTube video that would be extremely funny if it did not hit so close to home
93. Discounts  I don't like giving discounts but instead I will give extras
94. Discounts, Discounts  I've never been a fan of discounts and here is my latest weapon
95. Do As I Say  Newspaper are laying off staff, complaining about the world but they pilferage the copyrights of writers and photographers
96. Do You Know What You Are Talking About?  Anybody can open a new blog and claim expertise because they saw once a professional photographer
97. Do You Know Your Customers?  Who's your customers and what do you know about them
98. Do You Specialize?  Do you have a specialty? Why not?
99. Doing Wedding Photography?  The life of wedding photographers is tough. No testing, no trial, only one day and it must be done right. No second chance. what happens when you screw-up?
100. Drunk  I was doing a photo shoot at a customer, and an employee was drunk
101. Dumb Email  Why are some photographers sending dumb emails?
102. Earn More  How to earn more by just doing a better job of showing your photos
103. Editing Your Photos  Why is there so many bad photos on the web. People forget the editing process
104. Email Auto Responders  Examples of emails auto responders
105. Email Checklist  Do you have an email check list?
106. Email Errors  Quote about email errors
107. Email For Blackberry Users  Email suggestions for BlackBerry users
108. Email Statistics 2008 - Part 1  Email stats — Part 1
109. Email Statistics 2008 - Part 2  Email stats — part 2
110. Email Subject Lines  Various email subject lines and how successful they were
111. Emotional Bonus  Quote from Seth Godin
112. EppicSurf.com  How eppicsurf.com, a website, make money selling surfing photos
113. Everyone Can Be A Professional Photographer!  Click, click and now you are a professional photographer
114. Expensive Restaurant  What to do when an expensive restaurant screws up
115. Expert  Quote from Neils Bohr
116. Facebook  Should photographers have pages on Facebook, I don't like Facebook
117. Fear Uncertainty & Doubt  Fear Uncertainty & Doubt and how you can use it in your photo business
118. Firing a photographer  Are you in time for your customers, your fellow photographers?
119. Flash Only Websites  What I think about flash only websites
120. Follow Ups  Are you following up after giving a quote?
121. Foto-Biz — Business  The complete list of all articles about the photography business in alphabetical order
122. Free Photos  Here are my conditions for giving my photos for free
123. Free Publicity  How to get free publicity for a photographer
124. Freebies — Part 2  How do I deal with Freebies after I give them to the customer — Part 2
125. Friends and Discounts  A friend asked me make photos. Now what? How much of a discount to give her?
126. Gatekeeper  Executive always have gatekeepers, how to reach them
127. Gathering Information  There are so many things to remember when I talk to a potential client that I made a form for it
128. Get Sales Up  Quote from Nelson Peltz
129. Getting Rich  What does it take to become rich or to become a professional photographer?
130. Getting Screwed  A photographer friend gave some of his photos to a charity which in turn gave them away to their sponsor a very big and large corporation
131. Getting Side-Swiped  Photographers are sometime used to get other business done on the corporate ladder
132. Getting The Appointment  A review of the book "Successful Self Promotion" by Elyse Weissberg
133. Getty Confidential Information: Part 1  Getty Confidential Report — Part 1
134. Getty Confidential Information: Part 2  Getty Confidential Report — Part 2
135. Gift Cards  The great benefit of giving away gift cards
136. Gifts  People always love gifts, especially when not expected
137. Give Up Your Shirt  Quote from Marc McCutcheon
138. Gone Bust  A photographer that I know just closed his studio
139. Good Debt — Bad Debt  Debt, some are good, some are bad
140. Groupies and the D300s  Last year when the Nikon announced the Nikon D90, the press and the bloggers were raving about this camera sight unseen. Now with the Nikon D300s, nothing, why?
141. Groupies and the D90  Groupies reaction to Nikon D90 without even seeing it or even trying it
142. Groupies and the D90 — Part 2  A review of what happened 2 weeks later after the announcement of the Nikon D90
143. Harassment  Some people love to harass and destroy any good atmosphere
144. He's a Thief  Some photographers have no problem from stealing from their customers
145. Headshots  So many headshots, and very few are inspiring but there is always Ben Baker to show you how it's done properly
146. Hooligans  Hooligans pan the Nikon D3x without even trying it or even testing it
147. Horizontal or Vertical  Do you shoot mostly horizontal photos or vertical photos
148. Hourly Rates  Why you shouldn't charge by the hours on a photo shoot
149. How Can I Help?  When I answer the phone I always say "How can I help?"
150. How Low Can It Go?  With the price of photos going to less than a penny per photo, how can you be cheaper than that?
151. How Low Can You Go?  Getting me to lower my prices? I didn't but still gave the customer a break
152. How Many Quotes?  How many quotes to send? I always gave 3 quotes to cover the "elcheapo" and the "deluxe"
153. How Much to Charge?  When somebody turns professional, one of the first question is: How much to charge?
154. How NOT To Lose  I'm not going to get the job, so what should I do? Recommend somebody else
155. How Often Should You Promote?  Further praiseS for the book "Successful Self Promotion" by Elyse Weissberg
156. How To Become An Excellent Photographer In A Week  How to become an excellent photographer in a week without using your camera
157. How To Charge Full Price  How somebody charges full price when all the competitors are slashing the prices with 30% to 60% discounts.
158. How To Make $1,000 A Week In Your Spare Time From Your Photography  Another get rich quick scheme targeted toward photographers
159. How To Piss Customers Off — Part 2  Do you really need to piss customers off — Part 2
160. How To Piss Customers Off — Part 3  Do you really need to piss customers off — Part 3
161. How To Say No  Sometime I have to turn down business, how do I do it without antagonizing the could have been customer
162. How to Start as a Pro?  How do you start as professional photographer? Some photographers are lucky. The rest of us work hard.
163. How's Business?  It's the first question people ask and everyone lies
164. I Am A Purist  Some photographers are pretentious
165. I Am Sure  Being sure and negotiating prices
166. I don't really like it  A customer decides that suddenly he doesn't like it so he can use his nephew instead
167. I Tried Doing It Myself  The customer tried to take her own photos and it didn't work. Now what?
168. I Want To Pay More Taxes  I'm happy to pay my income tax
169. I'll Get Paid, When They Get Paid  This guy wants to pay me, maybe, but only if he gets paid
170. Ideas For Stock  Where to get photo ideas for stock
171. Idiots at the Helm  What's your business? What kind of business do you have long term if your goal is to screw the customer?
172. Increased Income: Fees vs. Hours  Should you work more hours or should increase your fees
173. Increased Income: Working Longer Hours  How many hours more can you work to increase your income
174. Industry Standards  Using industry standards to raise your prices
175. Input vs. Output  Relationship between work and earnings
176. Internet: Delivery vs. Source  Quote from Mort Rosenblum
177. Inventory  The inventory of photographers is made of all the photos done and ready to be sold
178. Inventory Turnover  How often are you reselling the same photo?
179. Is The Customer Always Right?  You must always agree with the customer's feelings
180. Is The Sky Falling?  Listening to the media we have reached the end of the world, but photographers are still working...
181. Is This A Good Workshop?  Jane, a friend, wants to improve her photography so she asked for my advice on wether she should take this workshop.
182. Is Your Camera Approved?  If you want to do stock by the big boys you need the right toys, I mean cameras
183. It's Just A Thought  How do I present my ideas and alterntives without forcing them on the "could be a customer"
184. John Lund's Interview With Charlie Holland  John Lund interviewed Charlie Holland and should be mandatory reading for anybody that's interested in stock photography
185. Just Plain Luck  Luck is so important
186. Keep Your Copyrights  To have more information about copyrights go to the Columbia Law School website
187. Keeping Your Eyes On The Ball  I often get distracted and have to get myself back working on the business
188. Keeping Your Eyes On The Ball — Part 2  Can you keep your eyes on the ball? Can you live with the consequences?
189. Knowns & Unknowns  What do you know? What you don't know
190. Lawyers and Contracts  As photographers when are always involved with contract, either from us the photographers or from the buyer/customer
191. Layoffs  What you should know when you will fire, I mean let go, people
192. Lead Horse to Water  My suggestions for the car industry
193. Lemmings  On the web most blogs only repeat what others have said — Part 2
194. Lemmings At Work: Feb 2009  On the web most blogs only repeat what others have said — Part 1
195. Let's See How  Let's see how we can make this work. That should be your starting position
196. Liability Insurance  Do you have liability insurance and how to use it against your competition
197. Liable For Links  If the SEC gets its way, you will be liable for links on your website
198. Lightroom 2.3 Has NOT been Released  Contrarily to what many bloggers say, Lightroom 2.3 has not been released yet, it was only the beta
199. Limited Print Editions  What's a limited print edition?
200. Long Term Relationship  I really hate this expression. It's the red flag that they want to "screw" me
201. Losing Money  Can you be a professional photographer and lose money
202. Lost Photos  A friend of mine lost the compact flash card of a photo shoot
203. Lots of Visitors but Low Sales  I have been taking soccer photos of my kids and their team mates for years and giving them away. This year, I put my photos on SmugMug and posted over 10,000 photos for this season. I've had plenty of visitors but sales are dismal.
204. Lottery  The importance of luck when having a blog or doing anything on the Internet
205. Loving It Is Enough  Is loving it enough? a cartoon from What the Duck
206. Lower Risk  Quote from Zhang Xin of Soho China
207. Lowering My Rates  In time of recession, should I lower my rates
208. Luxurious Wedding Photographer  How do the high end wedding photographers get there
209. Magazines & Newspapers Going Out of Business  The Internet is supposed to be the death of the publishing industry, but some are growing and prospering, why?
210. Make Your Own Luck  Some photographers are more lucky than others, mostly the lucky photographers make their own luck
211. Manners  Why do so many professional photographers have bad manners?
212. Manual for Camera  The discovery of the manual for an old camera: the Canon EOS Elan
213. Meeting Canceled  It's the 3rd time in a row that I just had a meeting canceled and rescheduled
214. Mistakes  What does experience means
215. Money Back Guarantees  GM is offering 100% money back guarantee. what can photographers learn from it
216. Money Money  Some photographers are more successful than others, why?
217. Moo Business Cards  I ordered 50 moo cards, for $30, expensive but well worth it
218. More With Less  Work more, get paid less
219. Mystery Customer  What are the benefits of having a mystery customer
220. Naivety  So many young people do and say stupid things on the web, and forget that what's on the web stays there forever
221. New Year Planning  It's a new year, it's time to start planning your photography
222. Nikon D3x  Many people rant about the Nikon D3x. Do they know what they are writing about?
223. No Free Lunch  Steward Brand vs Steve Wozniak at the first Hackers Conference in 1984 and how it still affect us, photographers, today.
224. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished  A photographer friend of mine helped a friend and now got punished for doing a favour
225. Non Compete Agreements  Another useless non compete agreement that means nothing and is not worth the lawyers fees
226. Not Close Enough  quote from Robert Capa
227. Not Even In The League  Everybody, and their dog, thinks that a camera's all you need to get into the photography business.
228. Obama's Coronation  What can photographers learn from Obama's coronation
229. Obnoxious Photographer  Why are some photographers so obnoxious?
230. Oh By The Way  Watch out when customers use the Colombo’s Oh By The Way
231. Old Computers, Old Software  Should you update your older computer with the older software?
232. Only 1 customer  Would your attitude change if you only had one customer?
233. Outsourcing  Many people use outsourcing, but then they complain when they get outsourced themselves
234. Overhead  Knowing and controlling your overheads is what will make the difference between staying in business or not
235. Overhead Costs  Keeping track of your overhead for operating a photography business
236. Overseas Shoot  Here's another scam about photographers and overseas photo shoot
237. Paparazzi  Why are paparazzi making so much more money than other photographers
238. Perfect Storm  Only incompetents use the excuse of the perfect storm
239. Personal Project  I'm looking for my own photo personal project and don't know yet which one to take on
240. Photo Contracts  Today we live in a very litigious world and as photographers we need to be protected
241. Photo Ideas  Where to get ideas for photos
242. Photo Pixels  Quote on what photo pixels are
243. Photographer vs. Plumber  Comparison between a photographer and a plumber
244. Photographers and Gloves  It's cold out there, especially for photographers. There's not real good solution, except mine of course.
245. Photographers: Recession Proof?  What does it mean to be recession-proof?
246. Photography Forums  Here's a list of various forums that deal with the business of photography
247. Photography Websites: What Buyers Want  What do photo buyers want, and how not to alienate them
248. Photography Wedding Business Survey  2008/2009 survey of wedding photographers
249. Photos — Facebook Size  Posting photos on the Internet. People will steal, copy and print them. Here are some of my suggestions.
250. Photoshop Piracy  Photoshop is the most pirated software because of Adobe's attitude and pricing
251. Pick A Niche  What your photo niche
252. Pissing Match  There are only losers in a pissing match, nobody wins, so stay away
253. Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail  Why do they send emails that say Please do not reply to this e-mail
254. Policies For Customers  What are your policies when dealing with customers
255. Postcards  The lowly postcard, one of your best advertising tool
256. Predictions  Here are my 2009 predictions, and they are the same as last year
257. Predictions 2010  2009 is almost finished, everybody makes the predictable predictions for 2010. So here are my predictions, kind of.
258. Price Of A Photo  How do you price a photo, what price should you charge
259. Pricing Don't Explain  You don't have to explain your pricing. If you explain, they can argue with it
260. Pricing for 1/2 Page: Corporate Use  Prices for corporate use of photos: 1/2 page
261. Pricing for 1/4 Page: Corporate Use  Prices for corporate use of photos: 1/4 page
262. Pricing for Full Page: Corporate Use  Prices for corporate use of photos: full page
263. Pricing Front Cover Page: Corporate Use  Prices for corporate use of photos: front cover page
264. Professional Photographer Skills  People skills are the most underrated requirements to be a professional photographer
265. Profit & Loss or Cash Flow  Should you look at your profit and loss or at your cash flow
266. Profits  The higher your rates, the higher your credibility
267. Proofsheets  Proofsheets are a poor way of showing photos to your customers unless they are themselves professionals
268. Publication Prices  Web resources for pricing your photos
269. Pursue Customers  How to follow up after sending an email
270. Questions For 2010  This is already January 2010. Photography is a tough business, prices are going down, competition is growing and the market is expanding significantly. How do you get your piece of the pie?
271. Raise Your Prices  Why should photographers raise their prices
272. Raising Prices  How to raise your prices
273. Reaching Customers  To be a photo business, you must have customers
274. Read The Darn Contract  Since it's a brand new customer, I read the contract, the contract and guess what I found in the payment terms section?
275. Referrals  Referrals can come from the most unexpected value
276. Religion  Religion has not part of business, so keep it that way
277. Rentals  Renting photos by the month
278. Replacement Camera  What's your backup camera
279. Reply To Lowball Offer  What to do when there is a lowball offer?
280. Retouching vs. Enhanced  Are you retouching your photos or are you enhancing your photos
281. Returning a Canon 1DsMk3  A friend of mine bought and returned a Canon 1DsMk3, the camera was too good for his business
282. Returning a Canon 1DsMk3  A friend of mine bought and returned a Canon 1DsMk3, the camera was too good for his business
283. Returning Phone Calls  How prompt are you at returning phone calls
284. Revisiting Groupies and the D90  Photo bloggers have a mob mentality instead of thinking for themselves
285. Revisiting Groupies and the D90  Photo bloggers have a mob mentality instead of thinking for themselves
286. Revisiting Returning a Canon 1DsMk3  Looking back at a friend of mine bought and returned a Canon 1DsMk3, the camera was too good for his business
287. Revisiting Returning a Canon 1DsMk3  Looking back at a friend of mine bought and returned a Canon 1DsMk3, the camera was too good for his business
288. Revisiting: $100 Wedding  Here is again what happens when somebody wants to pay only $100 for me to do their wedding
289. Road Photography  How Killboy is marketing their photos
290. Rolex Watches  There are many large brands like Seiko, Citizen, Swatch... that make "better" watches
291. Running A Photo Business From Home  What do you need to run a photo business from home
292. Running Out Of Money  The leading cause of failure of startups is death, and death happens when you run out of money
293. Rush Jobs  Low paying rush photo shoots are the bane of photographers
294. Satisfaction Guaranteed  Customer satisfaction starts with communicating with the customer
295. Schmexpert  There are many schmexperts but so few people actually doing
296. School of Stock  A great resource for stock photographers
297. Screw Your Customers  Why do some corporations insist on screwing their customers
298. Sell More  You can earn more either by doing more photo shoot or by raising the price of your photo shoot
299. Selling A Commodity  what are you selling commodity or do you bring value with your photos
300. Selling Photos on eBay  Many photographers sell their prints on eBay
301. Selling The Problem  What are you selling? Are your photos the solution to their problems
302. SEO  Search engine Optimization for photographers
303. Set Your Hourly Rate Where You Really Want It  Freelanceswitch.com advise to steal from your customers
304. Setting Prices  How do you set your prices, by the hour, by the day or by the photo
305. Show Yourself As A Professional  Do you show yourself as a professional. amateurs never use or even know what's a grey card
306. Shut Up!  Too often, I keep on talking when I should keep quiet and loose the sale
307. Silent Auctions  Silent auctions are a great way of promoting your photo business
308. Slice and Dice  David Kirkland specialize in a tiny market and makes a very good living at it
309. Small and Medium Businesses  Press release from iStockPhoto about small and medium businesses
310. Smart vs. Lucky  Are you smart or lucky. Personally, I'd prefer to be lucky
311. Sold Out  With your website, you should give as much information as possible
312. Somebody Told Me I Should...  Waffling customers are hard to deal with
313. Soul  quote from Ted Grant
314. Specialties  What's your photo specialties
315. Spitting In The Soup  Never spit in the soup, and don't bad-mouth your customers or you'll end up like the newspapers
316. Squirrels  How far can you specialize. Some photographers specialize in Squirrels
317. Staff Photographers  Almost all staff photographers are gone, now what?
318. Starbucks  I used to always go to Starbucks, now not anymore
319. Staying In Business  How I am staying in business in spite of the recession
320. Stealing Keywords  Find out which keywords other photographers use
321. Stealing Photos  somebody has copied your photos and posted them on their website. What to do?
322. Stop Wasting Time  Realize when people are just kicking the tires and will buy your photo services — Part 1
323. Stop Wasting Time — Part 2  Realize when people are just kicking the tires and will buy your photo services — Part 2
324. Strangled  I was Downtown Vancouver, BC, trying to take street photos when somebody tried to strangle me and mug me.
325. Stupid Racist  why did I have coffee with a stupid racist? I didn't know that he was an anti-semite when we started.
326. Suckers  The famous quote from PT Barnum
327. Supply & Demand Revisited  How photographers are affected by the law of supply and demand
328. Supply And Demand  The standard economist theory of supply and demand. As a photographer, by selling services I limit the supply
329. Take or Make Photos  Are you taking photos or are you making photos
330. Take The High Road  Whenever there's an argument, take the high road
331. Tamrac AeroSpeed 85 Backpack  I don't do too many reviews, because I only review what I buy. I'm a backpack freak and I bought the Tamrac Aerospeed 85 backpack. It was on sale.
332. Taxes  I'm happy to pay my taxes because it means that I made a profit
333. Telephone Cold Calls  I hate doing telephone cold calls
334. Telephone: Ears vs. Mouth  When you are on the phone, how much do you talk vs. listening
335. Thank You Note  Always send handwritten Thank You notes, people will appreciate it
336. Thank You Note After Meeting  I had the meeting with the 'could become a customer' now I need to sit tight and wait
337. The Big Launch  Many photographers try to have a big launch. Here's my experience on how to loose money with a big launch
338. The Check Is In The Mail - part 1  The long saga of being paid by a reluctant manager — part 1
339. The Check Is In The Mail - part 2  The long saga of being paid by a reluctant manager — part 2
340. The Check Is In The Mail - part 3  The long saga of being paid by a reluctant manager — part 3
341. The Check Is In The Mail - part 4  The long saga of being paid by a reluctant manager — part 4
342. The Cloud Is Falling  Are you sure that this is the end of the world for photographers?
343. The Customer Is The Enemy!  How do you treat your customers
344. The Fountainhead  People always ask me which camera, which lens they should buy
345. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly  How not to treat customers who buy over the Internet
346. The Information Age and Photography  What's the difference between information and data. How does this apply to photographers
347. The Last 10 Years  The last 10 years have been the most momentous years of the whole 150 year history of photography
348. The Service Department According to What The Duck  The service department for older cameras according to What The Duck.
349. The Squeeze  Are you helping your customers decide to buy?
350. This camera takes nice pictures  Does a guitar plays nice melodies? So why would a camera take nice photos?
351. Throwing Money  When projects don't go ahead, why keep trying to still make it work and keep on loosing money
352. Timeline Photo Shoots  Are you calling back to check after giving a quote?
353. Times Are Tough  Copy the promotions used by camera makers and adapt them to your own circumstances
354. Tom Grill and Stock Photography  An interview of Tom Grill on stock photography
355. Trade Guilds and Associations  Trade guilds and associations have always taken the position that they must be the only one... Only their members can do...
356. Trademarks  What's a trademark and how it affect us the photographers
357. Traitor  There are always religious fanatics, but do we need fanatics in the photo world?
358. Travel Commercial Photos  Many places are copyrighted and trade marked and can't be used by travel photographers
359. Travel Stock Photo Rejections  Why do stock photo agencies reject photos
360. Treating Customers Right  Are you treating your customers right?
361. Trust Me  when somebody says trust me, it always raises an alarm bell in my mind
362. Turning Down Business  Sometimes I have to turn down business. Why? Because, it's not my forte or I don't like it
363. Two People  Famous quote from Ansel Adams
364. Unhappy Friend  Dealing with friends when selling your photo services
365. User Experience  Memo from Bill Gates about his experience with Windows
366. Value  Do your customers feel that they are getting value for your photo services
367. Value Of A Backup  What's the value of a backup
368. Want To Grow Your Photo Business?  How can you grow your photography business
369. Watermark — Photographer's Math  A very nice and entertaining quote from Photographer's Math website
370. We don't like their sound  Dumb music executive on the Beatles
371. Weasel  Weaseling out is never good for business
372. What Do You Sell  Photography as a business is a dead business
373. What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey  Photography and people
374. What The Duck — Work For Free  How do you compete when the next photographer give his photos for free
375. What The Duck Blog Summary  There are times when What The Duck hits the right note, today's one of these days.
376. What To Do After You Are Laid Off  You are a photographer and have been laid off. Now what?
377. What Went Wrong?  The photo shoot did not went well, what to do now
378. What You Can Control  Quote from Ben Selekman
379. What's the best …  I regularly receive emails asking "What's the best …?"
380. What's your photo specialty  Specialties are a way of boosting your photographic income, but are you really a specialist
381. Which Camera To Buy - Part 1  Which Camera To Buy - Part 1
382. Which Camera To Buy - Part 2  Which Camera To Buy - Part 2
383. Which Camera To Buy - Part 3  Which Camera To Buy - Part 3
384. Whine and Complain  Photographers as a group love to complain instead of dealing with the issue
385. Whiners  Many photographers reminisce about the good old days. Where they that good?
386. Who Are Your Customers?  We've all heard that newspapers can't compete in an Internet world. The newspaper industry is dying. That's because they are managed by incompetents.
387. Who Owns Your Photos?  You make photos be it portraits, wedding, landscapes... You sell them, now who owns these photos?
388. Why Buy Photos From You  What are the reasons that people buy photo from you
389. Why Insist On Annoying Customers?  Many photographers and websites go to great length to annoy their customers
390. Will Photograph Anything  Presentation is one of the most important aspect of photography
391. Work For Free  Here are my requirements for giving away my photos
392. Working For Free And Charities  Charities that pay their employees extremely well are asking for my photos for free because they are charities
393. Wrong Attitude  Many businesses think that they are immune to the recession
394. Xmas Cards & Presents  I have stopped giving Xmas cakes and food to my customers. Instead I way for January when I have no competition
395. Yellow Pages? — Not!  I have tried the yellow pages for advertising and what a mistake it was
396. You'Ve Got To Be Kidding Me!  Not all customers are good customers. Some customers should be avoided like the plague

Canon (38 pages in category)  

1. Camera Advice  Everybody Tom, Dick and Harry are willing to give you advice on which camera to get, even when they have never used them
2. Canon 7D  Has Canon regained it's mojo with their new camera the Canon 7D?
3. Canon 7D & Noise  Many people complain of the Canon 7D noise, they just don't know how to set the ISO
4. Canon 7D — 70-200/4IS lens hood frustration  The 70-200 with the 7D is a great combination. It's a very well balanced match, except for 1 point of frustration, the lens hood.
5. Canon 7D — AF-ON Button  I had a hell of a time getting the 7d to focus properly. I thought it was inhabited by the evil spirit of the bad focus. No, the problems were wrong labels and poor documentation
6. Canon 7D — Almost Review  Here are some of my opinions on the Canon 7d after a couple weeks of use.
7. Canon 7D — Auto Lighting Optimizer Not Working  I was playing around, and decided to try the auto lighting optimizer on my Canon 7D. Guess what? It doesn't work! Why?
8. Canon 7D — Beep, Beep  Some photographers like their camera to beep. Some photographers don't like their camera to beep
9. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -1 AI Servo Tracking Sensitivity  C.Fn III -1 AI Servo Tracking Sensitivity, How sensitive do you want the auto-focus tracking be?
10. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -10 Focus Display in AI Servo/MF  Do you want to see the focus confirmation in AI Servo mode or in Manual Focus mode?
11. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -11 AF-Assist Beam Firing  Do you want to use the AF focus assist in low light? and how to use it.
12. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -12 Orientation linked AF Point  Do you want to use the auto focus point to follow the orientation of the camera without having to change the focus point manually?
13. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -13 Mirror Lockup  Do you want to lock the mirror up before taking a photo? This is mostly for macro, long lens, huge extended lenses, extra super long exposures...
14. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -2 AI Servo 1st/2nd Image Priority  Who has priority when pressing on the shutter release? The auto-focus, the AI servo or the shutter release?
15. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -3 AI Servo AF Tracking Method  How to deal with intrusions when you are using the AI Servo for tracking?
16. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -4 Lens drive when AF impossible  How should the Canon 7D behave when it can't find the focus? Start again from the nearest to the far away or just give up?
17. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -5 - AF Microadjustment  Are you front focusing? Are you back focusing? That's where you adjust the link between the camera and the lens
18. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -6 Select AF Area Selection Mode  The Canon 7D has 6 different focusing area modes. You can select which of the 5 auto focus area mode you want enabled
19. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -7 Manual AF Point Selection Pattern  When you are selection the focus point on a Canon 7D, if you are going to the last focus point at the edge, do you want to wrap around and go the last focus point at the opposite edge or stay there?
20. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -8 - VF Display Illumination  Do you want to want to see the viewfinder to be transformed in a Xmas tree?
21. Canon 7D — C.Fn III -9 Display all AF points  What happens with the 19 AF points during the point selection and after during the focusing?
22. Canon 7D — Custom Functions  Did you know that there are 27 custom functions in the Canon 7D? So here's a simple list of them all
23. Canon 7D — Custom Functions  Did you know that there are 27 custom functions in the Canon 7D? So here's a simple list of them all
24. Canon 7D — Focusing Modes  The Canon 7D looks like the champion and the winner of the software department, with so many different options, but how many focusing modes?
25. Canon 7D — High Speed AI Servo Tracking  My settings for high speed servo tracking for the Canon 7D
26. Canon 7D — How Do You Know If You Have The Highlight Tone Priority On?  The highlight tone priority expands the dynamic range between the standard 18% gray and bright highlights. How do you know if it's on?
27. Canon 7D — How To Clean The LCD  The LCD on my Canon 7D gets dirty very quickly because my nose is squashed in the LCD
28. Canon 7D — No autofocus, dead  I can't focus with my 70-200&. What happened? Did the lens die? Did my Canon 7D die? I don't know. But it's dead and no auto-focus
29. Canon 7D — Prepare a New Battery  I just bought a brand new battery LP-E6 for my Canon 7D, now I have to prime it
30. Canon 7D — Sharpening In The Camera  The Canon 7D can do sharpness in the camera, but only for the JPEGs.
31. Canon 7D — The Long Exposure Noise Reduction  The longer the exposure, the noisier the photo. There's no way around it, but the Canon 7D can figure out how to remove the noise after the photo is done.
32. Canon 7D — Zone Auto Focus, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly  The Canon 7D has 6 different auto focusing modes. Zone focus is one of them, what are the advantages and the shortcomings.
33. Canon 7D vs. Nikon D300s — Who's The Best?  I had the opportunity to spend 10 days with a Nikon D300s. Since I own the Canon 7D I compared them.
34. Canon 7D: AWB — Automatic White Balance  I don't like Canon's Auto White Balance. I'm not saying that it's wrong, I'm saying that I don't like it. I usually like the light to be warmer.
35. Canon vs. Nikon  Why do people choose between Canon and Nikon
36. Formatting Memory Cards — Debunking Unit  there's so much BS floating around about whether you need to format your CF or SD card, that I had to bring in the debunking unit at great personal expense.
37. Slow Canon 7D  The Canon 7D is advertised as 8 frames per second. I can't get close to that speed. Why?
38. Why Isn't My Canon 7D Sharp?  I just spent $2000 on the best APS camera and it's not sharp. Is it bad focus? Is it a bad sensor? Did Canon screw up?

Foto-Biz (22 pages in category)  

1. 1 Year Anniversary  First year anniversary of Foto-Biz.com
2. 2008 Foto-Biz Blog Summary Part 1  Year end summary of Foto-Biz.com - part 1
3. 2008 Foto-Biz Blog Summary Part 2  Year end summary of Foto-Biz.com - part 2
4. About us  Who we are, and mostly covering our butt
5. Copyrights  Foto-Biz copyrights and materials
6. Credits  Credits for software used for this website
7. Disclaimers  Various disclaimers to cover our butt
8. Foto-Biz  The complete list of all articles about Foto-Biz
9. Guaranties  Disclaimers to cover our butt against mistakes intentional or unintentional
10. Happy New Year  Happy new year
11. Happy New Year -- 2010  2010 Happy new year from Syv Ritch and from Google. Let 2010 be a good year for you
12. Happy New Year 2009 From ....  Happy New Year 2009
13. In Memory  In memory of Wiley Grossman who passed away
14. Merry Christmas  wishing you a merry Xmas
15. Merry Xmas -- 2009  2009 Merry Xmas from Syv Ritch, Google and Microsoft
16. Merry Xmas From ...  2008 Merry Xmas Google, Microsoft and Yahoo
17. New Media Photographer  Quote from New Media Photographer
18. Other Blogs  Other blogs that I read
19. Privacy  Privacy policies
20. Technical Problems -- Backups  Backup don't always solve your crashes
21. The Mavericks  Quote from 1001 noisy cameras
22. Xmas Eve 2009 -- Swamped  Too busy for xmas eve.

Lightroom (161 pages in category)  

1. Where Are My Presets?  Where does Lightroom stores the presets?
2. Apple Aperture  Why don't I use Aperture on a Mac
3. Archival CDs  Is there a point to archival CDs and DVDs?
4. Archival Media  What's an archival media and which one to use
5. Backup vs. Archival  What's the difference between a backup and an archival system
6. Bit Depth  Is it worth spending the money on having a camera that does 16bit?
7. Corrupted Flash Cards  How to prevent the corruption of flash cards
8. Crashing Memory Cards  How hard do you have to work to crash a flash card
9. DAM and Buckets  I disagree with Peter Krogh and his book: The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers
10. Depth Of Field From The Debunking Unit  One of the biggest misconception is that the depth of field depend on the camera format. Completely false!
11. Directory Structure  How do I organize my directories on my computers so we can do proper Digital Asset Management
12. Disabling The Right Click For Your Photo Website  Why is disabling the right click for your photo website dumb?
13. DPI vs. PPI  What the difference between dots per inch and pixels per inch
14. Drobo  Drobo targets the photo industry, many people love them but that's only until you get a major disaster
15. EXIF — IPTC — XMP  We all the time use the IPTC, XMP and EXIF but what are they? What's in them?
16. Exposure vs Brightness  In Lightroom what the difference between the exposure and the brightness, don't they do the same thing?
17. Filename Compatibilities  Are you naming your photos properly, so they can be used by other people on other systems
18. Finding Photos With Only Given Keywords  Lightroom doesn't have an easy way of show the photos with only this or that keyword. Lightroom shows all the photos with the keyword...
19. Flags — Lightroom and Photoshop  How do the flags in Lightroom interact with Photoshop?
20. Foto-Biz — Lightroom  The complete list of all articles about Lightroom with snippets included
21. Grayscale adjustments  The grayscale panel has 8 colour/channels, when should you use them
22. HD Video & Card Speed Debunking Unit  Now that so many DSLRs also do video, there a lot of BS about how fast does the memory cards have to be. So at great personal expense I had to bring in the debunking unit to clear the...
23. How To Apply Presets To Multiple Photos — Revisited?  Joel Robertson emailed me of a much better way of applying the preset to a whole bunch of photos
24. How To Apply Presets To Multiple Photos?  Lightroom doesn't have an easy way of applying presets to many photos at the same time, but there was a couple of work around, aka kludges
25. How To Correct Misspelled Keywords in Lightroom  How to fix a misspelled keyword that has already been assigned to a few hundred photos
26. How to Delete Keywords From Photos?  Adobe has many obscure ways of doing things in Lightroom, deleting keywords from photos in another one
27. How to go back quickly to the previous photo or folder  With so many folders or collections, how to go back quickly to where you were previously?
28. Importing-hierarchical-keywords  How to organize hierarchical keywords in Lightroom
29. Incremental Backups  What's wrong with incremental backup. Yes they are fast but are they useful?
30. Lightroom & the copyrights for 2010  Often people update the information their website, but have you updated the copyright dates on your website and in Lightroom?
31. Lightroom — A Few Steps Back Into The History  I am processing a whole bunch of file, and now I realize that I don't like the recent steps that I did and want to go back more than 1 step backward.
32. Lightroom — Adding Keywords To Many Photos  How to add keywords to multiple photos in Lightroom
33. Lightroom — Backing Up Your Catalog  How to backup your catalog in Lightroom
34. Lightroom — Backups  How do you do a real backup with Lightroom catalogs
35. Lightroom — Catalog Speed  Speed test of Lightroom catalogs
36. Lightroom — Colour Labels  Here are my Lightroom colour labels/settings
37. Lightroom — Copyright Watermark  How to add a watermark copyright in Lightroom
38. Lightroom — Crop & Overlays  How to crop in Lightroom
39. Lightroom — Cropping to Fixed Size  Lightroom doesn't allow you to crop to a fixed size such as 1039 pixels by 697 pixels for moo cards. So how do we do it?
40. Lightroom — Deleting Keywords  How to delete keywords in Lightroom
41. Lightroom — Develop Module Workflow  There are so many ways of processing your photo in the Develop module of Lightroom. Here's my way.
42. Lightroom — DNG vs Original Raw Revisited  Another one from the is this good or is this bad department. How Lightroom deals with upgrades and raw files
43. Lightroom — Duplicates During Import  How does Lightroom determine if the photo is a duplicate during the import process
44. Lightroom — Error — Catalog Used By Another Program  Lightroom error message: Catalog Used By Another Program
45. Lightroom — Export Settings for DNG  How to export your photos in DNG format with Lightroom
46. Lightroom — Exported JPEGs vs. Web JPEGs  What's the difference between the Jpegs exported by Lightroom and the Web Jpegs generated by Lightroom
47. Lightroom — File Locations  Where are your Lightroom files located
48. Lightroom — File Naming Conventions  Here are my file naming conventions
49. Lightroom — How Many Catalogs?  How many catalogs should you have in Lightroom
50. Lightroom — How Many Photos Can I Have In A Catalog?  What the maximum number of photos to have in a Lightroom catalog
51. Lightroom — How To Crop Many Photos At Once  How to crop a whole bunch of photos in Lightroom
52. Lightroom — How to Display EXIF Data  By default, Lightroom doesn't display the EXIF data.
53. Lightroom — How to Display EXIF Data  By default, Lightroom doesn't display the EXIF data.
54. Lightroom — How To Get Another 20%  here a few tips on how to get another 20% of performance improvement in Lightroom, but it's only for Windows Vista or Windows 7
55. Lightroom — How To Remove All The Flags From All The Photos  Yesterday somebody asked my how to remove all the flags so she could start again from scratch. So today it's short and sweet.
56. Lightroom — How To Remove EXIF Data  How to remove the exif data in Lightroom
57. Lightroom — How to Remove Keywords From Many Photos  Lightroom: How to easily remove keywords from many photos at the same time
58. Lightroom — How to See Before & After  In Lightroom how do you see your changes
59. Lightroom — How to Set File Names  Here are my Lightroom file naming settings
60. Lightroom — How to Set Panels Behavior  How to set the left and right panels behavior in Lightroom
61. Lightroom — I Can't See My Keywords In Bridge  I've entered all my keywords in Lightroom but I can't see them in Bridge
62. Lightroom — IPTC Common Entries  We all know that we are supposed to be entering the keywords and the IPTC tags, but what are they?
63. Lightroom — Keywords Not Being Applied  Why is it that when I apply keywords to many photos, only the first photo has the keywords
64. Lightroom — Lost My Picks  I picked over 200 photos, copied them to my main collection and now when I filter for the picked photo, I get nothing
65. Lightroom — Lousy Photo Rescue  Sometimes lousy photos can be rescued, most of times not. How do you quickly judge if you should spend the time to rescue it?
66. Lightroom — Missing Watermarks During Export  Why some of my photos are missing the copyright watermark during the export
67. Lightroom — Move To New Computer  How to move Lightroom to one computer to another one
68. Lightroom — Negative Queries  A negative query is when I want to know what it's not. so for example I want to see in Lightroom all the photos that are not about Walter, a dog
69. Lightroom — New RAW Formats And DNG  Older versions of Lightroom do not support the new camera raw formats, but they all support the DNG format
70. Lightroom — PhotoME  Review of PhotoME
71. Lightroom — Photos Without Keywords  Which photos do not have any keyword in Lightroom
72. Lightroom — Printer Profiles  Why is it important to have the printer profile embedded in the photo when sending it to the lab for printing.
73. Lightroom — RAM vs. CPU  what's more important for Lightroom RAM or CPU
74. Lightroom — RAW vs. DNG  What the difference between RAW and DNG files in Lightroom
75. Lightroom — Recovery Slider  Everybody uses the Exposure slider to make the photo lighter or darker. Then the problems starts, what to do with the recovery, fills...
76. Lightroom — Renaming Keywords In Batch  How to renaming Lightroom keywords in a batch fashion
77. Lightroom — Rendering File Changed  What to do when you get the message rendering file changed even though I am already at the 1 to 1 preview
78. Lightroom — Rendering Previews  How to render the previews in Lightroom
79. Lightroom — Saving Changes  How is Lightroom saving its changes
80. Lightroom — Select Catalog on Opening  It's always a pain when Lightroom opens, it opens the last opened catalog
81. Lightroom — Selecting Photos in Grid View  Everybody know that you can select photos in the grid view or from the film strip, but what about the keywords?
82. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Collections  What are the shortcut keys for collections in Lightroom
83. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Comparing Photos  What are the shortcut keys for comparing photos in Lightroom
84. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Help  What are the shortcut keys for help in Lightroom
85. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Metadata & Keywords  What are the shortcut keys for dealing with Metadata and Keywords in Lightroom
86. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Panels  What are the shortcut keys for dealing with the panels in Lightroom
87. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Print Module  What are the shortcut keys for the print module in Lightroom
88. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Processing Photos  What are the shortcut keys for processing photos in Lightroom
89. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Rating Photos  What are the shortcut keys for rating photos in Lightroom
90. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Secondary Windows  What are the shortcut keys for dealing with secondary windows in Lightroom
91. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Slideshow Module  What are the shortcut keys for the slideshow module in Lightroom
92. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Switching Modules  Lightroom: what are the shortcut keys for switching modules
93. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For The Develop Module  What are the shortcut keys for the develop module in Lightroom
94. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Viewing  What are the shortcut keys for viewing photos in Lightroom
95. Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Web Module  What are the shortcut keys for the web module in Lightroom
96. Lightroom — Slow As Molasses  I have been processing many photos and my Lightroom is becoming extremely slow. How I made it run at least 5 times faster.
97. Lightroom — Slow As Molasses Or Lightning Fast?  Is Lightroom slow as molasses or is Lightroom lightning fast
98. Lightroom — Sorting Photos  How to sort your photos in Lightroom
99. Lightroom — Speed Tip — Raw Cache  Here's one more way of speeding up Lightroom
100. Lightroom — Speedup Your Computer  How to speed up your computer so that Lightroom can run faster
101. Lightroom — Standard Previews  What are the standard previews in Lightroom
102. Lightroom — The Fill Light Slider  Everybody uses the Exposure slider to make the photo lighter or darker. What about the Fill Light.
103. Lightroom — The Previews  Lightroom has 3 types of previews, the thumbnails, the screen resolution images and the 1 to 1 previews
104. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 1  Lightroom: Troubleshooting — Part 1
105. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 2  Lightroom: Troubleshooting — Part 2
106. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 3  Lightroom: Troubleshooting — Part 3
107. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 4  Lightroom troubleshooting — Part 4
108. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 5  Lightroom troubleshooting — Part 5
109. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 6  Lightroom troubleshooting — Part 6
110. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 7  Lightroom troubleshooting — Part 7
111. Lightroom — Troubleshooting Part 8  Lightroom troubleshooting — Part 8
112. Lightroom — Video Speed  Sometimes it's Lightroom that's slow, but most of the times it's the computer. How your computer is setup will influence most of the performance of Lightroom.
113. Lightroom — Why Are Previews Different From The LCD or from Photo Mechanic?  Why are previews in Lightroom different from the lcd or from photo mechanic
114. Lightroom — Why Is The Histogram Not The Same On Lightroom And On Photoshop  Sometimes the photo histograms do not match between Lightroom and Photoshop
115. Lightroom — Workflow & Smart Collections — Part 1  Working with smart collections in Lightroom — Part 1
116. Lightroom — Workflow — Importing Photos  Here is my Lightroom workflow for importing photos in Lightroom
117. Lightroom — Zoom Levels  Lightroom provide different level of zoom to view your photos, what's the best zoom level
118. Lightroom 2  I am a proud Lightroom user
119. Lightroom Misconceptions  To get the most of Lightroom, you must understand the program and beware of your misconceptions.
120. Lightroom: Absolute vs. Relative Presets  What's the difference between absolute and relative presets in Lightroom
121. Lightroom: Colour Spaces  Lightroom supports sRGB, AdobeRGB, ProPhotoRGB colour spaces. Which one to use?
122. Lightroom: Corrupted Database — Part 1  How to repair a corrupted Lightroom catalog — Part 1
123. Lightroom: Export Settings for PSD  How to export your photos in PSD format with Lightroom
124. Lightroom: Export Settings for TIFF  How to export your photos in TIFF format with Lightroom
125. Lightroom: Finally A Good Camera Profile, Now What?  How to install a camera profile in Lightroom
126. Lightroom: Horizontal vs. Vertical  How to quickly identify the horizontal and vertical photos to tag them with horizontal or vertical
127. Lightroom: How to Delete All Keywords at Once  There are times when I decide to redo all my keywords, like when I wanted to change from regular keywords to hierarchical keywords, but deleting all the keywords one by one is extremely painful
128. Lightroom: How To Generate The 1:1 Previews After Importing  How to generate the 1:1 previews after importing photos in Lightroom
129. Lightroom: Multiple Photographers, Same Catalog  How to keep track of multiple photographers in Lightroom with a single catalog
130. Lightroom: Photos Without Location, Country, State, Province or City  Some metadata can be entered during the import of the photos, but not everything can, so I have smart filters that catch what I haven't done yet.
131. Lightroom: Real Life Workflow  My actual workflow in Lightroom
132. Lightroom: Smart Collection Within Smart Collection  Is it possible to create a smart collection within a smart collection in Lightroom?
133. Lightroom: What size you make your photos for web display?  Using 72 dpi for your JPEGs for web display will not work for the vast majority of your web viewers
134. Lightroom: Why Wait For The "Loading..." Overlay  Lightroom displays the "Loading..." when opeing photos in the develop module, and we have to wait until it's finished loading, but we can satrt working before all the loading is done
135. Lightroom: Workflow & Smart Collections — Part 2  Working with smart collections in Lightroom — Part 2
136. Megapixels vs. Print Size  How big can you print your photos? That will depend at which print setting you will use
137. Memory Cards — Debunking Unit  There are brand new cards with faster speed, higher capacity and costing more money. I had to bring the debunking unit to clear the air from all the BS surrounding these new cards
138. Memory Cards Lifespan  How long should a flash card last?
139. Monitor Calibration — Debunking Unit  You can spend thousands of dollar on software/hardware to caliber your monitor and still not see any improvement in your photos
140. Monitor Calibration — Follow Up  As a follow-up to my monitor calibration article, Ismaeli tells me about his problems with the calibration of his MacBook Pro
141. New Lightroom v3 Beta  Lightroom 3 Beta is out, what's important to know about it
142. New Lightroom v3 Beta  Lightroom 3 Beta is out, what's important to know about it
143. One Job, One Card  When I go for a photo shoot, I always use an empty flash card
144. People And Keywording in Lightroom  I do a lot of photos about dogs and street scenes. A vast amount of these photos do not have anybody in them, but I still have them tagged under the category people. Why?
145. RAW files  I prefer to shoot RAW instead of Jpeg because raw is easier and simpler to deal with
146. Recover Photo From Archive  How to recover photos with an archive
147. SD Cards speed  What's the speed of SD cards
148. Selecting Photos During Import In Lightroom  How to select photos in Lightroom during the import without having to checkmark each photo individually
149. Selecting Photos In the Grid View  Lightroom has so many way of selecting photos, that it becomes confusing. But selecting the right way will reduce your workload.
150. Setting The Order Of Photos For A Gallery In Lightroom  I'm trying to organize photos in a certain order for a gallery and I can't drag the photos around
151. Should You Buy One Of The New Compact Flash Ultra Fast Cards  Sandisk, Transcend and others have release a new set of Compact Flash CF cards that can run up to 90 Megabits per second. should you buy one?
152. The Keepers  All cameras today have a motor drive that can take photos to at least 3 frames per second, some as many as 10 frames per second
153. Third Party Lenses  There's a huge market for third party lenses like Sigma, Tokina and Tamron but what to look for in those lenses
154. Types of Backups  All the different type of backups
155. Useless Backup  Are you copying your photos or are you backing them up
156. Very Slow Lightroom  Why does sometimes Lightroom get very slow?
157. What's The Best Camera?  People always ask what's the best camera?
158. When Is Backup A Backup?  Are you really backing up your computer?
159. Why Discuss Date Formats in Lightroom?  Date formats are important, even in Lightroom. Every photo is stamped with the date and time in the EXIF and Lightroom reads it. What date format are you using?
160. Why is my Lightroom so slow?  Lightroom was running slower than a slug, I came to help and find that the problem was very unusual
161. Working With Stacks in Lightroom 2  Adobe did not explain well how to work with stacks in Lightroom 2.x

Seo (23 pages in category)  

1. Doing Stock Or Need Ideas On Subjects  Taking a photo's always easy, it's there in front, but how to create new photos and new ideas?
2. Foto-Biz — SEO  The complete list of all articles about search engine optimization
3. Getting Indexed by Google  Website, done! Now how to get indexed by Goggle
4. Google — The Biggest Misconception  Everything thinks and talk about Google indexing their website. False, Google does not index websites.
5. Google and Keywords  Everybody says the search engines do not use them, Matt Cutts of Google says otherwise
6. Google: Anatomy Of A Search Result  YouTube video on Google's search results
7. Google: Biggest Misconception  Most people don't understand Google and have many great misconceptions
8. Google: How To Read The Search Results  Do you know how to read the web pages returned by Google
9. Google: Maximum Number Of Links Per Page  what's the maximum number of links per page before you get penalized
10. Google: Page Rank  Google use the Page Rank to establish the popularity of each website
11. Google: URLs — Part 1  How to set the URL so not to be penalized by Google — Part 1
12. Google: URLs — Part 2  How to set the URL so not to be penalized by Google — Part 2
13. Google: URLs — Part 3  How to set the URL so not to be penalized by Google — Part 3
14. Google: URLs — Part 4  How to set the URL so not to be penalized by Google — Part 4
15. Google: Web Page Description  How does Google sets the webpage description when displaying results
16. Google: Webpage Titles  How should you set your webpage title so that you are not penalized by Google
17. Hits vs. Pages vs. People  What's the difference between hits, pages and people
18. How People Search On Google  How people are searching on Google and how it will affect how they will find your website
19. How People Use Google To Search  How are people using Google to search the Internet
20. How To Make An URL Disappear From Google  They are time that you don't want to display an URL, then you have to use the robots.txt
21. Number of blogs  Last night, I was zapping and they had on a US news that there was 1.6 billion Internet users and 22 billion blogs.
22. SEO and pictures  What you need to know so that Google can find, index and rank your photos
23. What's Wrong With Google?  The 2 most influential landscape photographers were Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, Adams is ranked 135 and Weston doesn't even show up