The Complete Commercial Photographer

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You have been out traveling widely, shooting plenty of fantastic images, and now are ready to cash the checks that will be pouring in from the sales of your stock…

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Similarly, I had an annual report client that I traveled for and would shoot their manufacturing facilities. Sometimes this would be a two week trip and at a new location…

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There are plenty of programs out there, some costly and some cheap, and it will be well worth your while to research these carefully. You may buy the program in…

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EDITING After returning to the office you want to immediately remove the bad images such as those with obvious technical problems. Consider: Is the image properly exposed? Are the images…

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Here is an example of a horizontal image cropped and used vertically on a magazine cover. It was an original 4 x 5 transparency. Sharpness here is critical for this…

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better position, but dad is still hidden. The third image has dad in a perfect position, but mom and the child’s paddles are not in the best position. Image 4…

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RETOUCHING All your images need to be processed and retouched. This is primarily to set contrast and color due to a RAW file being really pretty poor. It is also…

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METADATA Every digital photograph’s file contains far more information, known as metadata, than just the picture itself. Most digital cameras apply metadata to the image when it is captured including…

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There are numerous drop down menus that provide the metadata from image capture. Only the IPTC is editable. (Depending on your version of Bridge, the templates may look different.)

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To add metadata to images files in a batch process you select all the images to be changed and you can do this in several templates: metadata or your custom…

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LIGHTROOM The cool thing about Lightroom is that it truly is a DAM (digital asset management) program. When you import images into Lightroom they remain in the program as thumbnails…

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Adobe DNG DNG is the Digital Negative by Adobe. At this time I am not creating any DNG files myself but many photographers do create them upon import into Lightroom….

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Here is how these images are sitting on your hard drive:

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Keywords Accurate keywords are essential in today’s digital photography environment and marketplace. Every time you Google anything on the Internet you are using keywords. Clients going to a stock photo…

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