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I going to shoot a young couple, they are a friends of me. We plan the pictures to be less or more erotic,

partially nude. I have the basic concepts and a few set up in my mind but looking for inspiration and examples. I

like to ask to advise collections, albums, photographers on the web to check out.

<br>Thank you.

At first... is the Vista able to use more ram? If not consider to use 64bit edition so you can put 8G or even more (up to 128G) memory into the PC, so the 64bit applications (PS should have 64bit edition) also could use it. However many applications, plugins, utilties lacks 64bit version :(

RAID 0 is a good choiche of the speed, if you have more slots you can put more disks into it speed up it. Or you can have a look at the addonics.com for eSATA (external sata) cards, cables and cabinets to build reliable and/or fast (external) storage.

If you have big and complex ps files, you probably need a swap (scratch) disk for PS, but at first I would try to utilize as much memory as possible due it's speed.

My master told me to use the longest lens I have.

I believe him :D

Wehehee, the mistery solved. I decided to post the images to show the difference, so did reset the parameters the images but they were identical. I have purged the thumbnails then recognized, the bibble does kind of quick-quess of the thumbnail WB. When I clicked on the thumbnail, it loaded the the image, did the "real" conversion and suddenly everything was okay.

Sorry for the trouble :)

Larry, I have set the WB in the raw converter. I have set it to flash in both cases.

Ronald, my camera tends to be too red, at least for my eyes. Adjusting the wb usually helps.

I will try a new raw converter soon to see if it is a software specific problem or not.

I ran into a strange thing I couldn't understand. I shot a few images in raw

then converted them into jpeg at home, and experienced:<br><br>

flash lighthing -> camera set auto WB -> conversion set Flash WB =

unpredictable, ugly pics<br>

flash lighthing -> camera set flash WB -> conversion set Flash WB = less or more

correct colour tones<br><br>

Until now I believed it is makes no sense to set the WB if I use raw. I have

Canon body and use bibble.

If I was a customer I would ignore any photographer who hides the raw files from me or sell it for $, but I would pay for a CD full of toned, balanced, cropped and ordered jpegs ready to print.

In my opinion I paid for the actual photography work (shooting and so), so I want the "negatives" and would pay for the "extra" work: developing the raw files into jpeg images. And also would pay for high quality prints, but todays if I post a bunch of images to the local store's server, I can get reasonable quality of pics next morning - afternoon in worst case - right in my hands.

The world has changed. So the business is must do.

Not sure where to post this question. Since I prefer the to done as much as

possible before the exposition I decided to ask here.

I going to shoot a girl soon she has white skin tone but would like to have

pictures showing her more tanned. I have several colour filters to tone the

lighting but not sure if it is the best solution (I have limited number of colours).

I going to use a digital camera and raw format so the digital post-processing is

also could be a solution.

If there any easy trick please advise me.

The professional images are always retouched or at least improved after the shot. Especially if it was shot in raw then converted to jpg/tiff/whatever.<br>

I was quite unhappy with my pics until I have tuned up both the sharpness and saturation in my camera so I got crisp and vivid colors.

Since the cost is important for you I strongly suggest to get a 50 f1.8 lens first. I could do almost everything you need I believe.<br>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdSAYS05iQA">Check</a> this anyway :)

The photo.net has a <a href="http://www.photo.net/learn/portraits/">great article</a> about portrait photography.

Basicall the answer for all of your questions is "depends on". Depends on the subject, the environment, the picture stlye, depends on everything.

I think there is no optimal focal lenght. There is one which most people find pleasing (100-135mm on 35mm AFAIK) but it is only one choose from the many possibilites. I did google for fisheye portraits and found some <a href="http://www.gdargaud.net/Photo/Fisheye/DeformedPascalFHW.jpg">interesting</a> pics.

Have fun :)

With indirect flash you probably will be able to achieve <a href="http://foto.c3d.hu/cgi-bin/yaweg?ShIMG:fisherteahazb:img_6141.jpg">natural looking</a> lights. Distant background <a href="http://foto.c3d.hu/cgi-bin/yaweg?ShIMG:fisherteahazb:img_6137.jpg">will fade</a> anyway.

If the ceiling is not too close nor too far, you can use it for bouncing. Also can use the wall, especially if it painted white or at least something light color.

The luminuquest sells small bouncers you can put on the flash but this will not help to light up the background too.

If you use wide-angle lens then probably <a href="http://foto.c3d.hu/cgi-bin/yaweg?ShIMG:fisherteahaza:img_5665.jpg">no way to evenly light</a> up the scene.

I recommend a big flashgun. My favourite is the Metz 60 CT-4 hovewer it has no TTL function but has own great sensor and is really powefull lighting device.

Er.. with my fisheye the DOF starts from five feets and ends at the infinity even at the widest aperture. So it is possible, but most probably useless to have a fisheye pics of them.

<A href="http://foto.c3d.hu/cgi-bin/yaweg?ShIMG:fisherteahaza:img_5665.jpg"> here is a full fisheye</A>, and a <a href="http://foto.c3d.hu/cgi-bin/yaweg?ShIMG:fisherteahaza:leonofsgr.jpg">cut version</a>, and I have played with <a href="http://pano.teahaz.net/01.html">panorama</a> tools too.

Get a tripod, and go f8. Otherwise I guess if there is enough room for six people then that is a quite big room. If so using one flash only would result uneven lighting.

Anyway there are DOF calculators (google for it). At 17mm probably you can get promising DOF even with wider apertures.

If the picture printed in large you must produce as sharp image as possible. If it going to be published on the web in a 400x300 jpg then the sharpness is not a big problem.

Just my thoughts.

It recalls me teenine magazine mailing columns. The question was: "How to tell my mom I would like to have bras?" The answer: "Mom, I would like to have bras".

She is a pro, you wrote, but new to the digital. There are problems on the pics, and this makes you at least feel uncomfortable. Just tell her your problem politely.

If I am right, you have a clear contract with the magazine. You have relationship with the magazine but not with the modells.

I would keep contact with the best modells only. I would give them a few selected and prepared, photoshopped images for free.

Anyway I have an automated process which is resizes puts digital fingerprints into the images and writes a cd for my friends only. It is good for party pictures, or weekend or festival pics.

It runs on linux only but probably people developed such a solution for windows too.

I have prepared a Word document and time-by-time update it. It is in hungarian, and basically contains these things:

- apropriate clothing, loose to avoid marks on the skin, clothing for the shooting, comfortable bath-robe, slippers, towels.

- estimated time + at least one hour for preparing like make-up, lighting. This is good time to let the last marks to disappear from the skin

- bring music they like

- do not depilate whitin a day, because it looks bad on the second day, better to shave

- hair style

- carry or not to carry jevels

- bring or not to bring friends

- I usually describe what kind of poses I plan, sometimes send them urls, pics and ask them if they were like these and ask them to tell what pics they would like to see

I believe thats it. I am at countryside and have GPRS (mobile phone internet) only, so I did not search this doc, just typed I was able to recall.

On the next weekend I will do some lingerie shots for my firends for free. They

just starting an internet shop so they need relatively small pictures to show

the collection they have.

Although I have basic plans, simple background, ambient light, simple (same)

pose for all pics. I would happy to hear experienced peoples' advisories what

sohuld I take care.

I sent the same pre-photography instructions I send to the nude modells, I

believe it will fit for this situation too.

Thanks in advance.