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So many people do not consider photography a profession for one. Most think we are in the right spot at the right time. Many will say, " wow, that looks so beautiful, I should start shooting photography", like there is no skill or creativity involved. Weddings have always been that way with so many reprinting copyrighted prints, not really caring about the rights at all. Its always been this way - I don't pay any attention to to or look to see who steals my images off the net. It can cause a lot of unnecessary stress.

Buyers have never asked those questions to me. Some photographers always do, especially if there work is sub-par. They have something to blame it on now and most definitely try and use that argument. I would say, its what you call yourself. If you say your a photo purest, then tell the truth. If you say your a photographer, be who you say you are a without lying to anyone. Fine art photographer sounds better, can be the same or different. No laws here or bar association to beat you up if you call yourself or your images whatever. I am long past that state of caring what other photographers think or call something.

A lot of workshops are cheap, but they are done in a large group setting like deep sea fishing with 100 others dropping a pole in the water, the person giving them may have only a year experience in photography itself. Many will only go to one location and tell everyone what to set there camera settings on. If you feel thats reasonable then pay it. If you want a real photography workshop, you dont' look to find the cheapest or most reasonable. You should read about the class structure first, find out how many people per class max, read reviews from past clients if they have them and research the photographer giving the class, hopefully from there own professional website. Much better and faster than any book and hands on. I teach workshops in Chicago. My clients come from all over the world to local residents. With my structured workshop, some one with no experience will learn 6 months of reading beginners books packed into a two hour class. Books are great, but many times there are questions that aren't there and some of the directions aren't very clear. Also after my classes, my students can send me unlimited emails with questions that I answer as they continue there journey to learn photography.

I love it all and still use it all. I am at the point in my life that I don't care what anyone else thinks about it. Just put an image in Instagram the other day that I added some artistic touches to it. Two unskilled young photographers chimed into the comments saying it was fake. I had to laugh to myself and wonder why do other photographers care that much about another's work.

<p>I have built my own Wordpress site and now looking to partner with a professional reputable Print lab to get orders directly from my Wordpress site. <br> Not interested in using a POD that prints with no quality control or reputation. I want to have a direct relationship with my printer if that makes sense. <br> I know BayPhoto has some sort of ecommerce plugin for this. Does anyone know of any other quality print labs that have something like this?</p> <p>Thanks and Happy New Year</p>

<p>You should also think about this as a professional making money at it. If you wanting to make money at a profession, you don't need the very best tools, but you also shouldn't think the cheapest either. If your going to be doing a lot of these, look at reviews and quality, then go from there onto what you can afford. </p>

<p>HDR is only as good or bad as the person who uses it. Who says you can't use raw images for HDR? Someone above said try raw instead. I myself use raw files for HDR images. I don't like having to put filters on my lenses anymore, some won't accept filters without adapters. If you understand lighting you can combine a few images to bring out the right amount of highlights and shadows. Some HDR images are way over saturated or have too much contrast. That is a look some like, but most of us do not. A well done HDR image is magnificent, and not over-saturated. You have prob seen many of them and did not know it. <br> I use to feel this way until I understood what HDR actually is, and how to use it right.<br> Remember over saturating an image can be done with any program. </p>

<p>I would never let cropping dictate my image for sale. If it needs to be cropped, crop it. If you crop something just because you want it to fit a frame, you might be taking away the aesthetics, and creativity of the image. You should be most concerned about composition, perspective, lighting, and so on.<br> Best of luck</p>

<p>If your object is to sell, you will need a website to put onto your marketing material, and business cards so people can keep your info, and check back to see your new works, and updated info about you. So you would need the website first.</p>

<p>Sure, why not. When someone builds a table from scratch out of beautiful wood that wont pop unless you use some type of clear coat, stain, varnish or whatever, you have to know how to do it the right way.<br> Reading some of the answers here shows me that so many are still ashamed of admitting they may use photoshop, while others don't know how to use it so they knock it. <br> It goes to show that photoshop itself is an art that not many can perfect. Its not an easy program to learn, and its not just about saturation of colors and contrast.</p>

<p>I was a realtor for 7 years, and can say that Jeff is 100 percent right. I worked on and off with some clients for 8 months at a time. Driving them all over, paying the parking, meters, and so much more. In the end to get nothing in return. Realtors where I live have to go by ethics laws, and if broken, best of luck to you. you loose your license and get fined thousands of dollars. The state hires government testers to call you acting as a client, trying to make you say something wrong. The testers will even make appointments to have you take them out, trying to make you do, or say something wrong. A family member who is still a realtor went to court for telling the tester (client) that yes that neighborhood is a good one, I live there as well. <br> Not sure what laws car salesman have, but I'm sure its not the same category as a realtor.<br> Yes, there are bad realtors, and hard sale realtors out there, but you have no clue on what realtors pay out of there pockets to work.</p>