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<p>Thanks Les! Will Google it!</p>

<p>I am trying to give my images an old feel. Please click on the link below. Look at her blog.<br>

<a href="http://www.acarrollphotography.net/">http://www.acarrollphotography.net/</a><br>

Some of the images have a muted feel, almost like an old polaroid image.<br>

Please tell me how I can do this with my images. I have Photoshop!</p>

<p>Professional photographer charging for a single digital image for the first time. What to charge? Will do a bit of post editing on the image.<br />Thinking $85-100.00 for the single file.<br />Thoughts?</p>

<p>Back to my focusing issues.....<br>

Group of people with a blurred background. Not everyone on the same plane. Say I set my aperature to f/5.6 and I press the shutter halfway down to focus. Is it going to focus on just the face I am pointing at or will it focus on the f/5.6 depth and get the whole group in focus?</p>

<p>I have the 50 1.4 lens for my Nikon. It is my baby! You would not be disappointed with this lens.</p>

Hmmmm?

I live in Chicago. Is there a specific model release form that I need for the city of Chicago or State of IL?

Hello,

I am a professional photographer looking for a new print lab in Chicago. I currently use Precision image on Grand

Ave. but am not totally pleased with the paper they use (sort of thin). Can anyone recommend a print lab that does

a superb job; with very good paper, colors, print quality,etc.

Any suggestions would be great.

 

Thanks!

Thanks Jeff and Matthew! Your comments have been helpful. One more question if I may......

 

I will try to word this so that it is not too confusing.

 

If I have a group of kids, say three. And they are all at different distances (maybe one in foreground, one in middle ground, and one in background). If I want them all in focus I will obviously need a greater depth of field (smaller opening) but what if I am using autofocus and it focuses on the child closest to me; Will I still get them all in focus because they are within the DOF (field of view)????

 

Also, should I have my camera on the setting for dynamic area focus, closest subject or single area focus? I am using a Nikon D50. Thank you thank you!

This weekend I am doing a photo shoot with a family (1 baby and mom and dad) Also their 2 dogs. I have to make sure that all of their faces are in focus! What if they are not all on the same plane? Would it just be best to sacrifice the great bokeh and use a small aperture to make sure of this?

A couple of things in regards to your responses....

 

Pamela, if I back up any more I am moving further away from achieving a full frame of the face. Should I get have a longer lens so that I can back up but still have a close up shot.

 

Matthew, how will the wider lens give me a closer crop of the face? With the 28 mm are you able to move in a lot closer? I am just picturing more (unnecessary info) off to the sides with the wider lens. And yes, it is all about the eyes! When I took that picture above, I had thought that the whole face was in focus. This is what scares me! Sometimes I think I have gotten a bunch of great shots, just to find out later that many did not focus on the eyes! I have got to fix this problem!

Thank you all so much! I will take the advice of having all of the face parallel to the camera. Can someone elaborate on this plane. I know that only a certain plane of info will be in focus, but is this a vertical plane, horizontal plane, how far does it typically extend? Also, in terms of backing up....

 

I would really like to have a tighter crop of the face (full frame). Do I need a longer lens to get that?

I recently purchased a 50 mm 1.4 nikkor lens for portraits of children. I chose this lens for the beautiful bokeh it

produces when opened up to 1.4. However, When I shoot with the aperature that wide open, I am only getting a

small portion of the child's face in focus (ie; only the eyes or only the nose, etc.)

 

I understand the concept of DOF, however, what is the point of shooting a portrait at f/1.4 when it will not produce

everything (at least the whole face) in focus? I want to shoot that wide open in order to fully blur out the

background.

 

Does my problem have something to do with my camera to subject distance?

 

I will post a photo example.<div></div>

Thanks to all comments. I appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you all for your advice!

I would love it if someone could check out some of the images from the link

below. She is my favorite photographer and my motivator. What do I need to be

doing to get my lighting the way she does? I think she uses 100% natural light,

however, there are never any shadows or anything. Can never tell the direction of

the light. I like the look of the fully lit portrait and the sharp detail. Also, any

thoughts on what type of lens??

 

 

http://www.audreywoulardblog.com/

 

 

Thanks!

I have a client who wants to order a 16X20 print of one of my images. The original raw file has a resolution of 300 dpi. When I resize the image to 16X20, using the crop tool, it rez changes to 125 dpi. I do not want the image to appear blurry. What should I do? A professor of mine told me its never good to go under 300dpi for print output. Comments?

What is the difference between a soft box and the phototek softlighter? I looked at some google images of teh phototek softlighter. It looks like the light points towards the black park of the umbrella. Not really sure how it is set up.

What are shoot-thru white umbrellas? one on top of another?

I am looking to purchase a soft box for on location photo shoots. I am taking

portraits of mommies-to-be, babies and children. Can someone recommend a

good size soft box for this kind of work? I am usually shooting within a confined

space (room in a house).

To those who wrote the negative responses, I am shocked! Why even bother responding? I am a new member to photonet as well as the world of professional photography. So far, I have gotten so much help from others on this site. That is what forums are for. You should be ashamed.

Decided on Smugmug and just officially joined yesterday! I tried it out for 2 weeks and fell in love!

 

Thank you!

Thanks! I definitely have to get a book. It is a lot of information to take in and understand. I don't know anything about color profiles but I think that is where my problem with converting my files stems from. My JPEG images look very different from the RAW files after I have converted them. Very flat, low contrast and lacking in color brilliance.

not rude. however, i am a new member to photonet. just trying to figure everything out. thanks. i will check.

Can someone please explain what a color space is and how I can figure out what

color space I am using?