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<p>If you're willing to send them to the US I'd be interested!</p>

<p>I'm in the US so if you'd be willing to send it here, I'd pay postage as long as its not outrageous.</p>

<p>Also try looking up Meetup.com for local photographer and model meetups in your area. Quite often, model shoots are arranged for free or a small fee by the group's organizer.</p>

<p>Welcome from the deep south! I'm a photographer in SC but we are originally from Kansas. Welcome to the forum, I'm sure you'll find it helpful!</p>

<p>I tried this once. You have to find the exact dimensions that Facebook lists for their cover photos, design the cover photo and estimate it. It's really a matter of guessing and re-editing it.</p>

<p>If you have any left, I'll take them!</p>

<p>I'm 21 and I shoot with about 5 film cameras. I love using them and the simplicity that comes with them. I also love the look of the film!</p>

<p>You simply have to put yourself out there. Join social media sites that host clubs for artists. Attend events where other artists will be present. Search for Meetup.com groups in your area.</p>

<p>I found a photographer online the other day who had 3,800 likes on her FB Photography page. She's advertising that she uses a 5.5 million studio. And then I saw her images. EEK. I just can't believe what people will spend money on!</p>

<p>I would love to have the Pentax lenses!</p>

<p>I really enjoy my 55-250mm. I have not used the other lens, but I've been more than satisfied with the image quality, and sometimes I even use it to get some bokeh.</p>

<p>I've had amazing luck with every Canon Ae-1 that I've used. I have three at the moment, one was from my father's days as a yearbook photographer in highschool. His was kept in pristine condition and works perfectly.</p>

<p>I might suggest searching Etsy.com. I know that there are many photographers that sell their extra gear on the site and have tested it to see if it is in working order.</p>

<p>I've used YP and while it was easy to set up, I've not generated any leads from it. To actually show up on the first page of results you must pay a monthly ad/design fee. It wasn't worth my time. When I Google "local photographers" yellow pages is hardly in the first results to provide listings.</p>

<p>When I hand over the images, they do not come with my watermark. My watermark is placed on the digital files that are available for viewing online. I've learned the hard way to make the watermark visible and uncroppable. My mother-in-law is a former photog. She was recently married and took screen shots of the images that her wedding photog posted in the viewing gallery. She managed to download them on her phone, crop the watermark, and then edit them with some app on her phone. She then posted them to Facebook. This made for some horrible quality images. She knows better! But what I'm getting at is that clients will go to any length to immediately share or view their images with family members on social networking sites.</p>

<p>I don't give clients raw files, I've found that the clients who ask for the files to print on their own, usually print through a site that only accepts images under a certain size/res. limit.</p>

<p>I process all images that are turned over to the clients. And the contract states that they are not allowed to edit the images after they get them. You would be suprised to hear that I run into that all too often.<br>

I try to give the clients their disc as soon as I'm finished. Brides are antsy!!</p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

<p>I'm upgrading computers today. I've been working with a Toshiba Satellite laptop and I'm purchasing a Dell desktop. The Best Buy's in the area no longer sell desktops with anything but Windows 8 (Microsoft has pushed them to sell off anything older than Windows 8). I've considered buying a refurbished desktop from a smaller store but they don't carry a warranty, which is why I'm drawn to Best Buy.</p>

<p>I currently edit with Lightroom, version 3.6. My laptop has minimal capacity and is a 2gb ram, 500 gb hard drive, 32 bit system. It runs on Windows Vista.</p>

<p>If I upgrade to a desktop with Windows 8, 64 bit system, will I need to upgrade or even repurchase Lightroom so that it is compatible with my new system?</p>

<p>Wow. Ok. Thanks for the advice. I had no idea I would get so many respsonses like that. I was actually looking more for discounts or suggestions.</p>

<p>Can anyone help me acquire photoshop? I can't justify spending that amout of money and my free trial has expired. I am a beginning photographer and don't really have the income to support that kind of purchase right now.</p>

<p>Any help is greatly appreciated!</p>

<p>I'm emailing you Heather.</p>

<p>Wow. Can you give us the link to the photog's page? I operate in SC and I may be able to identify the SC Photog.</p>

<p>I don't know what type of photography you will specialize in but I may have a few tips.<br>

Prove that you are helping the community through your work. Offer discounted portrait building sessions. When I did a few of these, local parents wanted to know where their friends had their photos done and how much. Its a trickle down effect and it just takes time. Offer sessions for silent auctions for non-profits in the community.<br>

Partner with small business to help them capture and advertise what they offer. For example, I had an friend who does those jewelry parties. I shot one of her parties to help her advertise her goods. She is now a realtor and I'm shooting her real estate property.</p>

<p>First define each party and what each party's role will be. Then specify in the contract that there will be no funds exchanged, but that each party's role will count as payment for the other party.</p>

<p>David, I have a simple wedding contract that I can email you so that you may revise it to fit your needs. Let me know how I can send it to you.</p>

<p>I'm looking to experiment with newborn/infant photograph with by best friends 6 month old. I've never done this type of photography so I need some pointers. We will be shooting in September so it may be cool enough to shoot outside. If so, is there a way that one can achieve good images in an outdoor setting? I've only really seen infant shoots done in a studio.</p>

<p>Also, if she chooses to have them in her home, will my equipment be suitable? Please don't judge because I don't know what all is included but I was gifted a used Novatron set with 2 heads and the umbrellas and all. Is this sufficient for an in home newborn shoot?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Albinar-Wide-Angle-Fisheye-0-42x-Macro-for-Canon-EF-50mm-f-1-4-lens-Japan-made-/320939570727?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item4ab97d3627">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Albinar-Wide-Angle-Fisheye-0-42x-Macro-for-Canon-EF-50mm-f-1-4-lens-Japan-made-/320939570727?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item4ab97d3627</a></p>

<p>Here is the ebay listing for a lens that I've found. I'm looking for a less expensive version of the $400 50mm 1.4 lens and I'm hoping this is comparable. The fish eye aspect leads me to believe that it is not.<br>

Any feedback would be helpful!</p>