Ofc its possible to do, but not in a way that looks good. No self respecting artist(/photographer) wants to put out stuff that they think is ridiculously bad.

Your pricing sounds fine, their expectations of what a photographer costs not so much. It sounds like they only worked with amateurs before and are clueless about prices. 100€ or a dinner, lolz

EOS utility. I also played around with capture one on ipad lately, but i dont think i will continue the subscription, until they release live view on it, which it currently lacks and kinda ruins the whole thing for me. They are working on live view for it, but no idea when it will be released, once they do ill switch to using it more.

If you want many prints (that are not too big) and like printing, then it might be a good idea to get your own. Also it make sit more worth it, if you like using expensive fine art papers, and preferably you want to sell prints if you print yourself. Keep in mind that those papers cost quite a bit, and inks are not free either. For example if you want some really high end A3+ papers from Hahnemuehle, those cost almost 200€ for 25 pack, and you cant get smaller packs, and A4 sizes cost like 75€ for pack of 25, so if you want one type of A3+ paper and two types of A4 papers, thats already 350€, and extra set of inks like 120€, then you might first want some sample pack, and with posts, you are looking at around 500€ besides the printer itself. Ofc you could get cheaper papers, but inks being so expensive, it feels like waste of ink to use cheap papers, also if you just want A4 prints on cheap paper, they dont cost too much from print services, unlike fine art prints, especially larger like A3+ size. If you want A2 or larger prints, then you could use a print service, even if you got your own printer, but if you just want large prints, well then the printer will also cost more, and unless you sell the prints, it could be better to just use printing service. Printers need to be used from time to time, or they use inks to clean and lubricate the machine (or inks might dry up and wreak havoc in the printer). Ofc to save oney, you could cut larger sheets to smaller ones, but if you get A3+, and not A3, cutting it in half wont make it A4 size. But if you get A4 papers, they are easy to cut to A5 or A6 if you want smaller pics. Also for more random prints, it can be a good idea to get a bit cheaper paper. Like if you want to print anything half decent as small pics, then best ones in larger.

Even if you use external print service, you should soft proof your photos, which requires calibrated monitor and ICC profile, some places do however do these adjustments for money, not sure if some have some automated systems to adjust images, either way then you are not in control of how the final image looks like. Personally i think editing for screen is just the first step, sort of like pre-edits and print is the final image if im going to print.

I think having prints definitely adds to the whole photography experience and im sure people would get more out of their hobby if printing was more common, from shop or from your own printer, doesent really matter, but if printing a lot, especially on fine art papers, your own printer will pay for itself quite fast.

Photorag and Photorag Baryta has a little bit of texture, its not nearly as strong as some of the “textured” papers from Hahnemuehle. Do keep in mind that those heavily textured papers are matte papers.

If you dont want to print, you could tell them that you no longer have the photos, because its been so long. Hopefully the contract states how long you will archive client photos.

It might be hard to decide online only, but you can read on different papers, what sort of whitepoints they have, how glossy they are and so on, and what looks best in what type of papers. But ofc its best if you can try them yourself.

I have been testing different papers at home, and have decided that i will use Hähnemuehle Photorag for matte stuff and Photograg Baryta for more glossy. I think that combo will satisfy all. Basically matte for more subdued and pastel like colors, that are not high contrast and high saturation, and Baryta or other bit glossier for other stuff. But ofc if something looks good on metallic (paper by hähnemuehle) and a print shop offer it, that could also be included for some works. If something is like super high contrast with super deep colors and blacks, then some even more glossy paper would work instead of Baryta, but it would work very nicely for almost all that dont like matte.

There are tons of different papers, some of them have more differences than others. If in doubt or you dont want to make your offerings simple, yet effective, i think the photorag + photorag baryta combo works well. Super glossy papers also have stronger reflections, so even if a photo would look tiny bit better on super glossy paper, it could be that bit less glossy, but still glossy Baryta paper actually looks better on the wall of the customer.

Also keep in mind that customers wont know about different papers, they only know if it looks good on their hands and wall or not. Your customers are not photographers who obsess over papers!

Around 400 dollars would be pretty ok in many places and it depends on how you want to price. Hours and photos are often calculated separately, like 100 dollars hour with 3 pics and extra pics 25 bucks each, but sometimes you might want to make an offer for the whole thing, like here most likely should. Ofc if you live in some poor country, then it could be overpriced. Wouldnt be wonder if someone wanted like 600 or more.

Tell them to pick the ones they want, so you know which ones to edit, and only edit the ones they pick. You can put some auto edits quickly on them if it makes them look better.

But since this sounds like you are not going to do it for living, so ask what ever you think your time is worth.

You can also post in /r/pics, /r/itookapicture, or for critique, /r/photocritique. For film photos, check out /r/analog.

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This is because its a good idea to have a separate subs for posting photos and talking about photography. This is the talking about photography sub.

People tend to post tons of crappy pics and then those who want to discuss and not look at mostly crappy pics, can focus more on the discussions, as this sub is not filled with pics.

Just do it enough and you will gain an intuitive understanding on which aperture to choose. It depends on focal length and focusing distance. You can also use the DOF preview to see what sort of results you would get. When you find something to shoot, shoot it at different apertures that should be about right and analyse the results, see what works in what sort of situations (focal length + focusing distance + what you want out of the image).

It helps if you learn to master few prime lenses first before moving onto zoom lenses.

You already bought it, so use it. Its not relevant anymore what camera you should had or should had not bought.

Some people just are dumb this way, usually comes with being very stubborn. This sort of attitude is so deeply rooted into personality, that its nearly impossible to make it much better, especially if they are old enough to be a boss already. Maybe, maybe if he starts to see you as some ultimate source of information straight from the Gods, he might learn to listen to you more, but dont expect him to change.

Even if you manage to convince him one time, he will most certainly come up with some new idiotic thing he acts the same with. If you manage to do it 1000 times, maybe then he will start to listen you a tiiiiiiny bit more.

Even if they are nice in general, i would never want to work with someone like this, especially them as my superiors. If i were you, i would start searching for a new job :/

Usually they are 1500€. Pro-300 is like 800€, so closer to 1000 than pro-1000. But yea both great printers, i have pro-300 myself. No real competition to it really, but if you go much over a grand, Epsons are also worth looking at.

I have RAWs in folders named year/month/day to keep them in order. Then i take from there to lightroom the ones i want to edit. Edited photos i export as JPG for sharing (usually export one full size and one instagram size if i share something there) and as TIF for printing. JPGs gets exported on my main photography folder, and at times i clean it up and put them in the right folders where RAWs are. Photos that go to instagram, i also send to my phone. Photos for print gets exported into folder thats for stuff that is going to go into printing (also rename the file according to paper used for, as they are soft proofed for specific papers), and once they are printed, i throw them into another folder in the print folder that is for printed stuff. At times i might delete some stuff i already printed, if i know i wont be printing it again on same paper, since print TIF files are pretty large.

My photo folders are also backed to icloud automatically.

This is the only reasonable answer to OP

Chromebooks are also good for throwing

Just do it a few times, and you’ll get used to it. Say something like; “Hi. Im a photographer and photographing the local street life, and was wondering if you would be ok with me taking a photo of you?”, maybe you can add something saying that they look cool, or you like their style etc. or just tell them that you are photographing stylish people on the streets and you want to take their photo etc. Little flattery can make people warm up nicely. I promise you will be surprised how many people are ok with this (as long as you dont target people who look pissed off or in a hurry), especially if you say that you can send them the photo afterwards.