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It is possible, but not very likely to be a success. You could ftp files back and

forth to clients. but where is there an advantage for them to pick you. Take a

look on craigslist or someplace like that you'll find a few hundred people with

the same business plan. Even people offering to do scans and corrected

images for a couple of bucks.

You say you want to go after the high end market- Ok, if you have been the

senior retoucher at a service burea or agency, or have a relationship with a

studio they may continue to give you work. But again, If they are farming out

why pick you versus a large service bureau across town that has 3 shifts a

day for rush jobs and has a spare drum scanner in case the first one breaks,

and can offer matchprints on every job?

Not just the strobes but all of their accessories are excellent quality for the

price. I'm shooting with much more expensive strobes right now, but I need to

expand my kit, and the next couple of lights will be bees.

Simon, I don't want to be a wet blanket here, but....

You say you are an amateur who attended the game. I'm guessing that means

you were in the stands with a slr and decent lens? Or were you credentialled

and on the field?

If you were a ticketholder in the stands you don't have rights to shoot the

game commercially. If you were credentialled you should only be selling the

photo to the company who put in for you, but realisticly can sell to most

editorial uses.

By the morning after the game the magazines have edited photos from

several photographers and agencies and made their choices. To come in off

the street afterward and have them buy your photo instead of what they

already have, it would have to be spectacular.

Probably what you have is a good shot for your portfolio. Go ahead and send

it to some magazines and local newspapers along with a few other examples

of your work. They probably won't run it but someone might like it enough to

give you an assignment.

You can definitely get the same idea with a lumedyne classic system. I've got

one in the basement someplace.

If you want the old school vivitar system keep an eye on ebay, they show up

from time to time. Or go to http://www.underdog-battery.com/email.htm

and ask Jon if he has any sources.

I used garbage bags and or towels gaffer taped in place for years. Now I use

a commercially made cover that fits a body with a 300 or 400. Can't remember

the brand. It attaches with velcro around the hood, and I still have to tape the

back up the way I like it. It's made of a heavy waterproof canvas- similar

weight to a camera bag which is very bulky.

Lightware makes one I really like, it attaches with a draw string so it's quick

and secure and easy to move to another lense. It's also made of a lighter

material more like rain pants or tent fabric, so it folds up nice and small. And

it's only $30-40. The aquatech cases are fantastic, but big $ and they are fitted

enough that you may need several cases to use your various lenses.

Basicly it's first and third, and that's where you'll get most of your shots

anyway. Shoot the pitcher and infilelders during warmups from behind home

plate. If the team is cool with it you can shoot an inning or so from the dugout

door. Just shoot from the fielding team's dugout, they won't be going in and

out during the inning. Depending on the field and your glass you can

sometimes shoot from behind the outfield wall. but you miss a lot in that

position so only do it for the second or third game with that team.