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<p>Only one response? Man, Bump!</p>

<p>These are all great responses. Thank you all so much!</p>

<p>I am looking for a 50-60in television to show clients photos and slideshows on. I am having trouble with LEDs vs plasma vs LCD. I know LEDs are double the price than the other two, is it worth it? I have also heard that Plasma has deeper blacks and therefore better to show pics. I'm pretty confused on which to get. Also, what brands would you recommend and would you get a service plan? Thanks</p>

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<p>What sort of collection of images are you currently maintaining? Where do you expect it to reach to?</p>

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<p>I'm not sure what you mean by this question<br>

Marios - Thanks for the advice. Someone mentioned that the max the Sandy Bridges can have is 16gb. If that is the case then 16gb is what I am going to get because my current build only has 4gb and it is noticeable! As for drives my current drives are caviar blacks WD 1tb. I plan on keeping those as Data drives and possibly raiding them and then sending those to a backup along with an online backup.<br>

As for Calibration hardware and colour management, what do you recommend? I currently use a spyder pro.<br>

Tom - Thinkpads are solid machines, I'm not a fan of HP's. Dells are ok and ASUS are as well. That's just my two cents.</p>

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<p>Just a note, especially if you're editing tool of choice is Lightroom.<br>

Great performance is strongly driven by CPU type; ie Sandy Bridge, and amount of RAM. And not strongly driven by storage medium; ie hard disk, SSD, RAID.<br>

That said, an SSD certainly offers impressive system boot and LR boot times. I installed a Sata-3 interfaced SSD in my 13" MacBook Pro, and system boot takes about 12 seconds. Lightroom cold boo,t 3-4 seconds.</p>

 

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<p>I use Bridge and Photoshop, Won't having an SSD speed up running actions in Photoshop?</p>

<p>John - Good call with the RAID, didn't think of it that way. Why are you a MAC guy? (for computer purposes). Also, I asked about an SSD to see if that is the better way to go, I was thinking RAID because I have a bunch of 1tb drives that I could link together and increase speed on the DATA side. (I wish I had space for dual monitors!)<br>

Frank - I have built computers, my last computer was a DELL and I dont care for the lack of quality parts. <br>

Michael - Why do you recommend a powerful video card? (I've heard Photoshop now uses a GPU along with the CPU, is this why? I'm currently running an evga gts450). I'm also looking at doing 12-24gb of ram because of the resource hog photoshop is. as for a PSU what wattage would you recommend with the above specs and an i7. <br>

Jorge - my current backup strategy is as follows: each drive has a daily backup to an external drive with incremental backups using goodsync. Deleted files are removed 120 days after they are deleted on main drives. Then each photo session is uploaded online via crashplan.</p>

<p>I want to build a new computer for my photography needs. I was wondering what would be the best bet to get a blazing computer that allows photoshop, bridge, picasa, spotify, and chrome to be constantly running. I was thinking about getting an SSD for speed and then hard drives for data (currently I have 3TB internal and 4 TB external for backup, should I RAID instead?). Thanks for your suggestions.</p>

<p>Thanks for all the responses. I ended up using 3 580 ex II, 3 flex tt1 pocket wizards and this set of lighting umbrellas and stands. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002U558IM/ref=oss_product">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002U558IM/ref=oss_product</a><br>

Cheap but got the job done. I'll post pics when we get to editing them.</p>

<p>I guess I'm looking more for what you all would do regarding this situation to which I was wanting specific equipment. But it sounds like you all are telling me it really depends on going out there and just testing it out with what I have and if I need an umbrella or something then get one? I just want to make sure I'm prepared because we've been shooting weddings for 2 years but never outside at night.</p>

<p>Thanks for the responses. Yes it is outside and at night. I know hard. Not our choice, we are still talking with the couple to move the time earlier in the day.<br>

So then do you all suggest a pocket wizard with an umbrella? What specifics on equipment can you all give me?</p>

<p>I am shooting a wedding in a couple of weeks and then doing couple shots after the wedding...at night. I've never done this and was wondering what do I need? (i.e. umbrellas, pocket wizards, transmitters, etc.) They have to be portable and not need to be plugged in. Currently I use two canon 50ds with a 580 exii. <br>

What do you all recommend so that I can get great looking shots at night?</p>

<p>I am wondering if anyone else is having an issue with Miller's Lab when it comes to their coffee table books. Every time we've ordered a custom cover 8x8 coffee table book, we have had to send it back because there is a corner nicked. I'd understand if it happened once or if it was a shipping issue but this is not a sometimes it is messed up and sometimes it is right. This is every time in the same corner. I've had to send the same book back 3 times now. Is anyone else dealing with something like this?</p>

<p>We just got back from a wedding had a problem we've never had before. Many times I would shoot a series of shots and the flash went off only about half the time. We are using the Canon 580 EX II one is about a year old and the other was literally brand new. The batteries we used were energizer rechargeables. <br>

We thought that it was the recycle rate however we switched to advanced lithium (non-rechargeable) and it did the same thing. I am not sure what happened because I've shot fast before without this problem. However, I've never shot in cold (Florida?) weather before. Is it the recycle rate that is causing this issue?<br>

It started doing it during family shots inside the church. Then it got even worse when we took the bridal party outside (i couldn't feel my hands, it was so cold). and then in the reception hall. <br>

I switched out batteries and it would happen again so I'm not sure if it was the batteries or something else. Any ideas?</p>

<p>That is my concern as well. Hopefully not, what I've realized from this is that I need a better backup system but I also need to check my files after I import them! Will spinrite go back and get previous files?</p>

<p>Windows 7 Ultimate</p>

<p>I imported a family session on to my computer and went to do another shoot. After a couple of days I came back to find that some of my images were missing. I have no clue where they are and how to get them back besides going to the CF cards and recovering them. However, I've already shot over those pictures. I've tried using multiple software solutions but for some reason none of them are recovering files besides what are currently on the cards. I've tried RescuePro Deluxe, Pc Inspector and DiskInternals Flash Recovery. Is there a way to get these files back?</p>

<p>We've been in the photography biz for about a year now and want to offer wall designs, or grouped pictures (some same size, most are different) simliar to this <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=117737392527">http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=117737392527</a><br>

Does anyone know where we could purchase templates or software to show clients what their session/pics would look like in different settings. Is there a way I could purchase those? If not, do you have any suggestions as to where to get them?</p>

<p>I was wondering how much you all charge to take pictures for online/website use. Here's what's going on: A family contacted me and wants professional pictures for a ministry website. They said that they will link back to me and will be ok with a copyright on the picture. Normally I charge $50 for a session and hope to make money on prints (so far so good!). However, they said they will not be buying prints. What would you charge for an hour of shooting and then editing the best 10 - 15 pictures? We have decided that we will not sell digital files a this time.</p>

<p>Do you all protect the images on your blog? We post copyrights on the pictures but I saw this blog http://lenahyde.com/blog/ and was wondering how when you download a pic it just downloads a copyright.jpg pic that says please contact us if you want our pictures. pretty cool. I looked at the source and they call a CSS action named imagebox_5_0. Any ideas? Is it worth it to protect the pics in the first place?</p>

<p>What is a way you explain travel charges outside of a 30 mile radius? like it might include the cost of a hotel room/mileage, etc?</p>

<p>BTW thanks for all your help here, you have really helped our business grow</p>

<p>Is there a way to get rid of the EXIF information and add to the copyright section of my pictures? </p>

I'm having trouble pricing Christmas Cards. The client wants 100 of them with their image on it. What would be a

good markup for $70 cost to me? I spent about 2 hours editing the cards (not including shooting and editing pics).

The client is buying other items from me as well. What do you all think?

I've been running a "photography business" for almost a year now. very low key maybe 1 appt every 2 months. I don't

want to totally incorporate myself as a business (for taxes i guess) but heard that I just get a tax number and pay

monthly to the government. I heard that I go and get a tax number and that should cover me. Is this true?

I just received prints for my first wedding back only to notice that they were significantly darker than my

monitored made them out to be. Therefore, I've read that I should get a monitor calibration tool however i'm

having a hard time which one to buy. I'm deciding between the huey pro and the spyder 2/3? What do you all

use/recommend? thanks!

What do you all use for backing up? What software do you use?

 

Here's what I use, tell me what you think.

 

Every night I have a software solution (currently goodsync, but thinking of changing to something else) that

syncs/backs up everything in my photography folder to an external hard drive (500GB). This includes photoshop

edits and everything else. Then once a week everything backs up to another computer in my house.

 

I am now deleting folders, due to space and burning them to DVD (some 2 copies!). Is this ok?

What do you all think? what do you all do?

thanks!