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Photography Pricing: How much is your Art worth?

We all love the art of photography, and perhaps even the technical challenges of capturing the essence of a scene or an occasion. Behind passion and creativity, however, is the reality that every photographer – whether you are into advertising photography, or offer wedding photography services, or any specialization for that matter – must place proper value on his or her work through appropriate photography pricing.

This is especially true for professional photographers who make a living out of shooting, therefore it is important that you carefully dissect what factors affect the pricing of your packages. Here’s a short backgrounder that will help you come up with realistic prices for your photography packages.

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7 Secrets to Capturing Awesome Beach Photographs

To be on the beach in summer is relaxing, fun and beautiful. It is also a great idea to capture those happy moments in the photographs but if you are not sure where to begin from, you can actually fall victim to the stress. Therefore, you need to prepare well in advance about what you are going to do while on beach and think ahead about ideas, passes and pops for taking some spectacular beach photographs.

Following lines elaborate some effective tips that can help you to take great photographs while enjoying on the beach.

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3 Questions to Answer Before You Fly into Adobe’s Creative Cloud

Adobe’s announcement of their decision to switch to a subscription-only model had sparked off hot debates on whether they were justified in making this move. The Internet was flooded with concerns expressed by users of Adobe software – especially Photoshop – on whether they could afford to continue using the software.

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Doing so will mean they would have already paid for the licenses and now, to continue using those licenses, they will have to keep paying a monthly amount. Critics feel this works out to be a costly affair, besides being an unfair decision.

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Lose the Bubbles: How to Properly Apply a Screen Protector on Your Camera’s LCD

So why put up with them on your camera’s LCD? If you’ve ever tried to apply, or thought about applying, or even looked at a screen protector before – you might want to read this.

Fancy receiving a ‘spanking new Nikon D800, only to find a wafer thin scratch down the main screen within weeks. You were careful with it, sure. You would be, having shelled out so much. You might even (for a split second) think it may have been wise to keep that bulky polycarbonate-protector freebie that came with it. Which now seems more appealing, even with the cheek indentation and embarrassment it would have caused.

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How to Prepare your Photographs for Stock Submission

Post processing is an important part of photography. No matter how good you are at photography, your commercial success depends entirely on your final product. Using Adobe Lightroom and other post processing software, you can transform your photograph into a truly remarkable commercial success.

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Stock Photography is one of the most proficient ways of earning money for photographers but it has become very difficult for newbies to even pass the initial quality control test for different stock agencies. This tutorial is simply about overcoming that obstacle by editing your photographs in such a way as to make those appealing both for the agencies and the clients.

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Choosing Paper To Print Your Photography

If you recently searched for a suitable printed media on which to print your photography, you must have felt quite overwhelmed. Printing media in the form of photo paper is gaining from improvement in chemicals, ink and paper production, that makes the decision as to the best photo paper for the job harder than it used to be.

These improvements however, mean that when you get it right, the printed photograph will be good for many years of display. Here is our easy to digest guide to aspects that you should pay attention to when searching for printing paper media.

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10 Easy Ways To Take Candid Photos of Kids

Catching kids behaving in their most natural manner and playing with other kids almost guarantees a great photograph.

However, one thing you should never let happen while shooting your kids is the children looking at the camera as it will spoil the whole atmosphere. You only want to capture the innocence, warmth, silliness and sweetness of them and it is only possible if you take the shoots when they are not concentrating towards the camera.

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Google+ Takes An Evolutionary Step With Online Photography

Social media has brought about the ability to share images across the world in seconds, something unthinkable a decade ago. There are several major firms who dominate this market – Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, and Instagram to name but a few.

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Sleepy old Google+, however, hasn’t had much of a say. With 500 million registered users it’s officially the second most populated social media tool in the world, the only problem with this statistic being how those registered rarely bother to use the service.

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Family Photography: the Value of Professional Photography Over Amateur

Having a big family get together and want to capture the moment? Just had a baby and want to get some family shots together? Is your child off to university and you want a family shot before your kids fly the nest? Families are important, and one thing you won’t want to do is look back in a few years’ time and wish that you’d decided to take the opportunities you had to get some professional family photographs done.

So if you are thinking about getting some family photographs done then the next major question is whether or not you want to get a professional in over an amateur. Everyone knows someone who’s relatively handy with a camera, and it can be a real temptation just to pick someone like that in order to keep the costs down.

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How to Unobtrusively Blend a Watermark Into Your Photos

Is it worth to watermark your photos? This is the question every photographer asks himself before sharing photos online. Visual watermarks protect your ownership and copyright from online theft. Photographers use watermarks for self-promotion, recognition and advertising purposes.

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All photographs you share online should be attractive and cohesive. Watermarks (like large stamps or long texts) carelessly placed, distract from the overall look and feel of a photo and make it unattractive. You should unobtrusive and artfully integrate watermarks.

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