Hello list, I'm taking my first tentative steps into world of professional photography. Where before friends and family have been largely very happy with photos I take, now that people are paying I need to present my shots in the best possible way.
My question to the list is, what advice can you give me with regard to workflow and presentation? Here is my current quandry. I've taken about 400 photos for a client, and am now deliberating on how to present them. I am currently using Chris Breeze's Breezebrowser Pro which provides many RAW image manipulation tools I am comfortable with (exposure compensation, brightness histogram, saturation etc). But does not "remember" settings for batch processing. Each file is taking a couple of minutes for me to process and further eight for my PC. A huge amount of time for all 400 images. I was thinking about cutting that down to, say, 50 photos and then producing a website (the easiest way for her to view the photos), optimized and sharpened for screen and reduced to say 800x600. (Sharpening at max res then reducing to 800x600 for display looks awful, and this is exactly what my gallery software will do). If she is not happy with results I intend to offer a second shoot or a refund. Assuming she's happy, I was going to provide a DVD with, say, 4 differing sizes - large medium, small and thumbnail with an option to re-process pictures to her requirements for a modest additional fee. I know that everyone works differently, to different standards and with differing volumes of photos to process, but your thoughts on my circumstances would be very much appreciated. The client is paying well below market rate, but this could be my stepping stone to more and better paid work, so I would like to do the best job I can. Any other recommendations on photo processing software would be welcome, I'm currently using Windows XP on an old laptop, but am most comfortable using FreebSD if GIMP etc al is up to the job. Apologies for the long email ;-) Regards, Richard -- Richard Jones MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y!M: rwkjones http://www.jonze.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
