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<p>Thank you all for your suggestions.</p>

I am in the Dalls/Fort Worth TX for the next few weeks.

 

Can anyone recomend any places or areas to go explore and photograph?

 

I'm from the North East, I like landscape, junk cars and architecture photos.

 

I'm looking to explore within a three hour drive of the DFW airport.

 

Thank you.

 

Marcin

<p>I was stating my current situation, to give a better picture as to where I am now. I am putting together a marketing plan, and I'm looking for advise so that when I start advertising, the money I spent will be spent in the most effective/efficient way. </p>

<p>thank you all.</p>

<p>Vermont has a lot of destination weddings from couples from New York City, and Boston. So, any suggestions of sites with more National distribution, or local to those two cities? Or, would it be worth putting a separate listing on WeddingWire or TheKnot in one or both cities, as well as my state?</p>

<p> </p>

<p>Hello</p>

<p>I'm in the process of expending my wedding photography. I'm an weekend shooter, and do between 4-8 weddings a year. I don't pay for advertising, my marketing budget is literally $0.00, mostly word of mouth and Craigs List. I charge $1,300 for 7 hours, for weddings, my market is the State of Vermont. </p>

<p>I'm putting together a marketing strategy, and need help determining which sites new Brides and Grooms visit to get vendor info, wedding advice etc. </p>

<p>Besides one or two local sites, Onewed.com and TheKnot.com have made my list. </p>

<p>Any other suggestions? I would appreciate any help.</p>

<p>Marcin<br>

<p>Try these<br>

http://sanyo.com/xacti/english/products/index.html</p>

<p>I am looking to create slideshows and burn them onto DVD's and sell or include with my wedding packages, or simply hand out to potential clients. I'm not looking for a web based program. </p>

<p>Last night I found out that I can add multiple audio tracks in Premier, this is a step in the right direction, and now I'm leaning towards it, but I'll try both of your suggestions before I go and spend my money.</p>

<p>In the process, I've downloaded now 4 different software to create photo slide shows, and if any one ever asks you about timelaps stuff, tell them to check out PhotoStage, I was able to create really smooth clips of my old timelaps photos that have been sitting idle in my folders.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot.</p>

<p>Hello<br>

I'm looking to create photo slideshows for my clients and to have as a presentation tool. I'm looking to do this on my own, and so I'm looking for something simple and inexpensive (or free). </p>

<p>All I want is to be able to import photo into the program, and set the time for each slide, and a simple transition. All software I've played with offer the following, but they all make it difficult to arrange and play with audio. <br>

So far I've used Premiere Elements 8, and a few other random software.<br>

Please any suggestions? <br>

Marcin</p>

<p>Thank you all. That's good food for thought. Chris, thanks for the price list that helps too. </p>

<p>If any of you know of any album design companies?</p>

<p>I've been photographing weddings for about 4 years now. I do about 4 - 8 weddings a year. I've never offered albums before (didn't really want to), so here are my thoughts.</p>

<p>I was thinking about using Collages or Zookbinders, both are pretty similarly priced and offer similar products. <br>

I like the flushmounted albums- any suggestions on what company to use, doesn't have to be one of these two?</p>

<p>Sizes: What is a good size? is 8x10 enough, or do I need to go bigger (12x12)? I don't really want to offer many different sizes, because than it'll create a mess as far as pricing is concerned. </p>

<p>How many pages and photos in an album?</p>

<p>Content: Do I fucus 99% on the bride and groom in the album, or do I include a bunch of stuff with guessts? Or do you allow the clients to choose the photos? any suggestions about that.</p>

<p>Parent/mini/bride's maids albums: If I offer extra albums, like the parents, or a mini etc. albums, should it be the same layout as the main album, or do I have to use different photos, and different layout? Essencially, can I use the same layout in a smaller album, for other people in the wedding?</p>

<p>Keep in mind, I'm not yet attracting the highest end clientele.</p>

<p>Is there anyone who is willing to send me their wedding package list, to use as a reference?</p>

<p>Thank you, </p>

<p>Marcin</p>

<p>I've used friends as second photographers in the past (sometimes for free, and sometimes for money). I have no problem allowing others in to shoot with me. It helps them and me; me to alleviate some of the stress, and them to get experience. </p>

<p>When I have a assistant photographer, I tell them that they can use all the shots for their own portfolio. Yet, since I concider them a part of my team, at least for that day, I allowing them to take care of some things while I do other stuff, like stay with the groom while I follow the bride, hence, I tell them that I need their memory cards at the end of the day, and they get them back as soon as I'm done downloading them. As part of my team I rely on them, and so they get some stuff I don't.</p>

<p>David<br>

You can get camera calibration profiles for Lightroom 2 (not sure if you're using 1 or 2).<br>

In LR go to help and select LR online, once there in the search bar enter "camera profiles",<br>

you should see "DNG profiles - adobe labs" select that,<br>

than if you scroll down you'll see downloads and instalations under which you'll see camera profiles bata 2, select that - http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Profiles</p>

<p>You'll have to create a profile if you haven't done that yet. </p>

<p>Hope this helps</p>

<p>Marcin</p>

<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

<p>Jen you're the bomb. That's pretty straight forward. I'm giving it a run throu tonight. That's exectly the advise I needed. </p>

<p>Now, I've heard of using some device that allows for downloading multiple cards (using multiple cardreaders) at once. </p>

<p>iView is a no go... I've been playing A LOT with LR in the past month, watching videos, and reading, so I knew it's what I needed, just needed a push with starting. </p>

<p>Capture NX is so damn time consuming, I only have CS so not Raw bridge, and I was going back and forth from NX to PS to do WB adjustments than adjusting localy...</p>

<p>Thanks again, but please keep posting, if anyone thinks of something else.<br>

Marcin</p>

<p>Hello<br>

I need advise about my workflow once I capture/shoot a wedding. I may not be asking the right questions because I don't know what is out there, how it works, and how it would benefit me.</p>

<p>1. I need to know what is a good way to import and sort images. That includes, what software hardware do I need?<br>

2. Is there a software that allows you to view photos and tag, and rotate them easily, and automaticly place them in different folders for editing, deleting, printing once I tag them...?<br>

3. What is the best way (software) to save/rename images when using two different cameras for the same wedding? Right now when I use two or three cameras I split them up in three different folders (cam 1, cam 2...) and if the client purcheses the cd they actually get the images separated in three folders. I want them to be organized in one single timeline.</p>

<p>This is what I'm working with. <br>

PC<br>

Photoshop<br>

Lightroom 2<br>

Nikon Capture NX<br>

at least 2 cameras D300, D200, D70</p>

<p>I've been using nothing except photoshop until recently. Meaning, all my organization, rotating and renaming was done manually in folders.</p>

<p>I don't have any special image burning software. I started using Lightroom 2 about a month ago, I know it has a way to organize images, tag images, and rename images. Would this be enough.</p>

<p>I've heard of iView (?)... Don't know much about it.</p>

<p>I need to cut my time in post production. Any help is appreciated</p>

<p>Thank you,</p>

<p>Marcin</p>

<p> </p>

<p>You should look into the su-800 wireless speelight commander on www.nikonusa.com. The ones that sold on eBay sold for about $220. Not cheap but I think that's about the cheapest way, unless you get a cord.</p>

I've worked with digital cameras for over 6 years now, and it's rare, actually I can't recall ever seeing a

compact flash card fail. I've seen a lot of SD and MultiMedia cards fail.

 

Like the the comments above, I agree with using Sandisk and Lexar, I haven't come across many Kingston card.

Definitely don't buy the slowest of the bunch.

 

I would look at what kind of photography you're doing and determine the writing/recording speed you need, and get

one of those two brands. I've used many different brands, some of which names I can't even recall and non of

those card ever became corrupted or failed on me (I recently found a 128 MB card from about 5-6 years back, in

the bottom of my bag, and that thing still works), so as far as the reliability of either brand is of concern, I

wouldn't really worry about it.

Michael and Bill

 

 

I figured out how to get the images on the timeline and how to change the length of time each image stays on the

timeline. What I'm having trouble with now is actually setting up the movie, the resolution, the rendering, the

saving, the aspect ratio...

 

 

I've only been able to save it to my "hard drive" (my desktop), either for viewing on MS Media Player or Quick

Time Player. I couldn't bun a DVD (from the "make movie" function, it asks for stuff I don't understand. Also,

when I play it in QT or MS players, I loose a lot of the quality. It almost looks like the software compresses

each image individually, and since no two images are ever compressed identically, each image looks different, and

so when you play it at the 29fps, it actually looks like the still object in the movie are vibrating.

 

 

I'll keep working on it.

The photos are of the same scenes, taken over an hour or two. I'm going to try that tutorial tomorrow since I already have Vegas, but would Quicktime Pro be a lot easier and create the same effect (I'm not planning on doing any zooming, just adding some music)?

 

You're the bomb, I'll be posting any updates later.

I have thousands of images I've taken in the anticipation of creating timelapse movies, yet I can't can't make

them look good. I have Sony Vegas (don't know anything about it). I need to play 24 fps, and I just don't know

how to do it.

 

ANY HELP...PLEASE..

 

Marcin