tonybynum

your photos should be on an external drive anyhow . . . Lightroom wont even gulp with a "small" 40k

collection using a thunderbolt connection . . . I have a almost a 400k on a 15TB drobo using a esata and

it does fine. performance will depend more on how you manage your catalog, the horsepower of the

computer and the size of your previews. . . coincidentally the previews folders can get huge! I think

julieanne kost and dave marx both have some good videos on lightroom management . . .

i've never shoot for free . . . when i was shooting portraits i would charge a sitting fee then earn my

money through selling prints . . . that's one way to do it . . . there are lots of great books on this subject,

and tons of online help . . starting with this video, it's the best short video about the money side of a

photography business . . . http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/13277

It may be a combination of both. . . You may be creating artifacts that they done like, but they should be printing them

anyhow. Try adorama, bay photo, or one of the larger print services, even costco can do a bang up job, they all use the

same machines, and they all are capable of doing okay work for a good price. If you're needing high end prints go with

west coast imaging. . .

Gabe, congratulations on getting started in the world of photo journalism. . . There are mountains of posts

here on photo.net about pricing, work for hire, business of photography, how much to charge, contracts,

copyright, etc., start by doing some digging . . . Second, and depending on how you learn, maybe first,

go check out the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) site . . . they also produce a book

called, "professional business practices in photography," get a copy and read it. . . Google is also your

friend. Google "business of photography" "photojournalism business" "how to run a photography business"

"how much should i charge," and so on . . . Start with a better foundation of the issues, then come back

and ask more pointed questions . . . There are a lot of great people on this site that will help, but you have

to help yourself first . . . get cracking . . .

tough to say. . . it comes down to how invested are they in that photograph, how hard would it be to

replace it with something else . . . I would get as much detail about usage as I can including mock ups

and numbers for size and distribution of use . . . banners, mag, billboard, advertorial, etc . . . before

pitching a price. . . If they are not wed to the shot, you'll likely get no where with real money . . . I suspect

there are lots of people out there just like you who give shots away (as you noted) just for seeing their

photo in print. Ask yourself why would anyone pay you if you give your work away? Thus the importance

of knowing how invested are they in your particular photo of that particular dog at that particular event. . .

If they can hire someone to shoot the dog for less, why would they not just do that? So it all comes down

to what is their demand for that exact photo . . . that will set the price . . .

Tony

I assume it's not dust? It looks like there's no pattern and they are all different but relatively similar in

size. Very interesting . . .

you just have to redirect lightroom to the new folder. If all your images live in one folder, filled with sub

folders, you should be able to direct LR to the new folder and all your images will be re connected. make

sure youre backing up your catalog and your images to separate drives or you're not backing up anything

. . .

looks like both. capturing motion, panning, or movement of sea with stable camera, and lots of boosting

in PS. I doubt there's any brush, other than dodging, burning, contrast, saturation, color, etc. . . It looks to

me like the pattern is real . . .

plan a, if you want to stay windows you can use about anything in the 500-1000$ dont go less than 4 GB

ram and you'll be fine . . . I like like dells, they seem to last forever, i still have three working dells and

one's 10 years old!

what are you going to be post processing? How big, and many files. how much "work" will the system

need to be able to handle? If it's just simple photoshop or LR and youre not pushing 1000's of shots or a

ton of video, any PC or mid to upper end laptop in the 500-1000 range will work. If, on the other hand

youre going to be pushing huge files, lots of video, and you need correct color, you'll need to get a faster

system. As for specs, get a 64 bit system with 8 gb of Ram or more, the more the better of course. A

hug HD is not all that critical as portable storage these days is cheep. I've run LR 4 on everything from a

fastes pc's to the best mac down to 5 year old dell and it works. It really depends on how big your files

are and how hard you want to work the system . . . If i were starting over, i'd go mac if you have the

budget, over time I think you'd be happier with it. If youre a iphone user or you have a ipad, or ipod, go

with mac and forget about it . . .

your explanation lacks clarity. be more specific about what you did . . . it sounds like you saw the

photos on one computer but not the other (are you talking RAW or jpg?), or did you see them on both and

now you cant? Are you talking about LR or PS? If you view in LR you have to have the most recent

update to LR or you wont be able to read the d600 files at all. I'm a bit to confused to know really where

your issues might be. If youre not able to see exported jpgs, I'm not sure what would cause that . . .

why not just ask him? It seems to me that if you are going to try to add some licensing to the "deal" you

really would need to know what he's expecting. It also sounds like he's going to buy files, unless you also

plan to create this prospectus . . . I would not shoot this until you know exactly what he's hiring you to do.

. .

I round to the hour, minimum of 4 . . . meaning, 1 hour will cost you the same as 4. I include costs, travel, post production on top of my hourly rate - unless otherwise agreed . . . Depending on what model you choose to use, your hourly rate must cover

your total costs and provide some profit. Nobody knows the details of your business, so no one can

really help you that much . . . I would encourage you to listen to the adorama video about pricing your

work. I've posted it a dozen times I'm pretty sure if you google adorama video photography pricing you'll

find it . . .

If you dont mind, what did you charge per hour, how did you figure out that number, and was it enough to

cover all of your costs and provide you with a profit? Please help this community by offering help to

those that help you . . .

Actually, thank you for asking the question . . . I'm going to employ it myself . . . it's easier than making

collections from the time and organizational management standpoint. I'm sure there are other ways of

doing it, maybe even better than what we've come up with, i hope someone weighs in with another

solution . . .

i figured it out. . . in LR 4.1 - not sure if it's available in 3.0 but try it anyhow . . . go to the key words and

right click on one, go to "edit keyword tags," you will then see several toggle options, uncheck the correct

boxes. This basically allows you to add keywords to your images, but select which key words you do not

want to export. . . the method of adding "not accepted" or "submitted to," kinds of key word phrases

looks like a solution to your question. Remember to de select the "export key word" option under "edit

keyword tags," unless you want other's to see all of your key words . . . Hope that helps . . .