This practical guide will help photographers begin, reorganize, or jump-start a photo business. Included is information on creating successful portfolios, taking photos that sell, and getting the right money for the right work. Other topics include thriving in an increasingly computerized profession, understanding legal concerns, and competing in the stock photography market. A list of professional resources and reproducible record-keeping forms make this a practical and invaluable manual for photographers.

Big Bucks: Selling Your Photography (Amherst Media's Photo-Imaging Series)

Hollenbeck, Cliff

Business & Money

Amherst Media, Inc.

Expert advice for turning old cameras into valuable collectibles, these step-by-step instructions show how to restore a vintage camera. Learn to work on antique leather, brass, and wooden components to achieve a complete camera restoration.

Restoring Classic & Collectible Cameras

Arts & Photography

Tomosy, Thomas

Photography & Video

Industries and professional tips on photographing the 15 most popular sports—including football, baseball, basketball, hockey, motor sports, swimming, and soccer—make this book of interest to photographers and sports enthusiasts alike. It includes advice on which shots are crucial, where players should be positioned on the playing field, how to compensate for stadium lighting, and ways to capture moving feature shots as well as information on making money selling the images.

How to Shoot and Sell Sports Photography

Arndt, David

Sports & Outdoors

Breaking into the lucrative and exciting field of advertising photography requires exceptional skills behind the camera as well as in sales and marketing. Using dozens of images to illustrate techniques, it discusses the aspects of lighting, digital imaging, locations, special effects, and models that are unique and essential to this type of photography. It also provides advice on working with agencies and clients, and on preparing a portfolio, approaching art directors, and submitting bids.

Professional Secrets of Advertising Photography

Markow, Paul

Graphic Design

This comprehensive price guide covers over 4,000 makes and models of 35mm cameras, panoramic cameras, medium and large format cameras, lenses, and accessories. Packed with charts and over 200 photographs of the equipment discussed, this book provides an easy reference for buyers and vendors of cameras and photographic equipment. Featuring only models sold as user cameras (rather than as collectibles), this book's handy rating and pricing system makes it easy to determine the price for any new or used camera. The listed prices are based on real-world sales and researched and compiled from a number of sources, ranging from top-of-the-line photography stores to swap meets.

McBroom's Camera Bluebook, Sixth Edition

McBroom, Michael

Taking successful aerial photographs demands knowledge of techniques and equipment quite different from those familiar to photographers used to getting their shots with both feet on the ground. This book explores the unique characteristics and conditions of aerial photography, including compensating for changes in altitude and the motion of a plane, selecting the right film, and dealing with cloud cover, poor sun angle, water glare, and atmospheric haze. Information is provided on essential camera systems, lenses, motor drives, gyro stabilizers, grips, viewfinders, and panoramic cameras that improve aerial shots. Tips on identifying subjects, hiring a pilot, planning flights, and marketing aerial photos are also included.

Secrets of Successful Aerial Photography

Eller, Richard

Photographers don’t have to travel on safari or risk life and limb for a portfolio of marketable nature shots. This book teaches the step-by-step techniques necessary for capturing and selling dramatic images of animals in settings such as zoos, nature preserves, and even at home. Beginning with how to approach the animals and avoid danger, this book discusses choosing appropriate subjects, scouting locations, creating suitable settings for smaller animals, capturing shots of animals in motion, selecting lenses and filters, and dealing with obstructions such as fences, glass, and water. The book also outlines the necessary equipmentspecialized viewfinders, lenses, and flashesand essential legalities such as permissions to shoot and photo releases.

The Practical Manual of Captive Animal Photography

Havelin, Michael

Macro and close-up photography allow photographers to explore a world that few people ever experience: the delicate stamens of flowers, crystals, the texture of a butterfly’s wing, stamps, or minute details on a piece of jewelry. With careful attention to the techniques taught in this book, photographers will learn how to capture these highly detailed, small-scale subjects on film, creating fascinating images of features too small to be adequately observed by the unaided human eye. With the advice in this book on selecting the latest 35mm equipment, and field versus studio considerations like focusing, lighting, film, and filters, consistent results will come easily to both the novice and professional photographer.

Macro & Close-up Photography Handbook

Sholik, Stan

Eggers, Ron

Medium format cameras, which use a larger negative than 35mm cameras, are the tools of choice for most professional photographers. In this guide, the techniques that make medium format photography so popular with professionals are explained in language that even hobbyists can easily understand. All aspects of medium format photography are explored, including equipment selection, composition techniques, and the differences in images produced by single lens reflex and twin lens reflex medium format cameras. This is a great resource for beginners as well as those who wish to improve their medium format photography.

Medium Format Cameras: User's Guide to Buying and Shooting

Williams, Peter B.

Everything needed to create top-dollar portraits is covered in this handbook, including tips on selecting a camera, setting calibrations, controlling direction and intensity of light, and the use of digital cameras, all illuminated by 130 portraits from twenty of the industry's finest portrait photographers. Original.

Portrait Photographer's Handbook

HURTER, Bill

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