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<p>time to move on...</p>

<p>there is always blurb :)</p>

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<p>wind not an issue with the umbrella? thats my major reason of not wanting to use an umbrella outside...unless i got an assistant holding it, its going to go down and break my pocketwizard... i think i'm on my 3rd...</p>

<p>firewire is a bit shorter...4.5 meters.</p>

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<p>it's harder to stay in than it is to get in</p>

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<p>ditto..i think from all the CL ads these days you can see that anyone can get in.. whether they stay in biz and continue year after year is what is hard.</p>

<p>the IEEE specification for usb cable is 5 meters..or around 16 ft... so unless you got a repeater you will be bound to this limit.</p>

<p>I would imagine that the established photographers don't really get much business from random strangers that got to their website from a web search. I would think most of their business comes from referrals and from other vendor recommendations..hence they don't really put much effort into SEO.</p>

<p>but that's just me guessing.</p>

<p>those images freak me out a bit..but thats just me...</p>

<p>I list my starting price so i know that at least those emailing me asking for my full pricing details are within my price range.</p>

<p>and i never understood who came up with the "investment" as another word for pricing... never really liked that term... to me it just sounds too much like a marketing bs coming from a used car salesman..</p>

<p>http://www.photo.net/wedding-photography-forum/00Uo11</p>

<p>I am not against having a facebook page..we are talking about ads.</p>

<p>i think a regular lustre print on a foamboard probably looks better than a canvas for a show... but thats just me</p>

<p>it may have worked for him...but i think his case is more of an isolated one rather than the norm when it comes to facebook ads.</p>

<p>interesting read nonetheless</p>

<p>while i did enjoy reading that article, i don't really agree with it to a certain extend..it sounded a bit bitter :)</p>

<p>i still believe in the free market system.. if you offer something compelling, people will pay for it..</p>

<p>if they are willing to go with the cheaper alternative instead of you, that just means that as far as the customer is concerned, your quality simply does not justify the price difference..whether it be the type of products or the type of shots you have..</p>

<p>it is up to the photographer to show that they are worth the price that they are charging, and if you can't, then don't go crying about how the next door neighbor is stealing your business with a cheaper price tag.</p>

 

<p>handling unedited pictures just so you can make a quick buck is just wrong if you ask me.</p>

<p>shooting the images is 1/2 the job...post processing is the other half</p>

 

<p>copy it to the HD first before loading them to LR.</p>

<p>what was the saying?</p>

<p>the less they pay, the more they expect?</p>

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<p>I'm very surprised you have been doing weddings with a Rebel. It's not giving you the quality images you want because it's not a Professional grade camera.</p>

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<p>thats rubbish... a rebel can do the job as well as any of the XD camera.. her problem is more likely related to her lens than the body.<br /> I use the 5dm2...and yet i rarely shoots above 400 iso.. i could might as well use a rebel and i wouldn't probably miss any of the shots... i might have to get a wider af-s lens to compensate for the crop factor but other than that i don't see why one has to go trashing the rebel as a "non professional" camera.</p>

<p>theres another saying that someone once said....<br>

the less they pay, the more they expect..</p>

<p>http://www.eye.fi/</p>

<p>I never negotiate my pricing. It is what it is. If they say they can't afford it, then I suggest to them other photographers within their range.</p>

<p>Once you start negotiating it is just a pain in the butt...and you run into the "oh you did it for X so why you can't give me the same deal" type of cases.</p>

 

<p>ill give buffdr that...after i saw the lcd in my 5dm2, the lcd on my 40d and my 5dm1 looked horrible</p>

<p>you know...one of the masters of wedding photography (whatever that video series is called) shoots with a rebel...</p>

<p>your portfolio should be what determines if you can book jobs or not.. as long as you don't show up on a point and shoot you should be ok.</p>

<p>tell that photographer with the 5dm2 requirement that he should learn some flash :)</p>

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<p>one more thing...are you using a UV filter?</p>

<p>i use a 32gb on my 40d without problems</p>

<p>the 2nd one aint that much sharper either.. maybe its the lens..... have you tried shooting at a wider aperture? like around 5.6?</p>

<p>any reason you are shooting at f9 at 17mm ? Do you really need that much dof?</p>