Back UP Equipment!

The season is almost here and we are all gearing up for it.  Gear!  You can never have enough.  In the film days, I would always carry 3 bodies with me.  If one went down, I still had two.  The third was somewhat of a security blanket.  Mamiya would usually turn a repair around in less than a week.  (They truly are the benchmark when it comes to customer service.)   No problem.  Then comes Digital.  Send in a body for repair to either C or N, and you could be looking at 2 weeks or longer.  The power of 3!  I had planned on my wedding kit to include two bodies (I just bought them within the last 4 months), but as Murphy’s Law would prove, two is not enough.  So off to the Camera shop I went to buy a third one.  So keep that in mind before the season starts, There is a price to be paid for sanity.

Passing out cards for WWW.WeddingPrints.com

A great opportunity for creating new business is passing out WWW.Weddingrints.com cards at your events. Not only does it give you the opportunity to sell photographs from the event, but the guests are seeing you in action.  If they like what they see at the event and the photographs online, you could be looking at a future client.  

Nikon Updates

Nikon has recently updated CaptureNX, ViewNX and also a firmware upgrade to the D3.  All of these updates pertain to D3 functionality.  Update, Nikon has removed the D3 update due to image corruption!

The importance of using the right color space

Don’t listen to them!!  I saw a speaker at the recent PPAMass convention who told the audience of photographers that if their lab uses SRGB color space, “fire your lab!”  This comes from a man who outputs his own work on his sponsor’s inkjet printers.

What he doesn’t realize is that wedding and portrait photographers who use color lab services (virtually the whole industry) need to use the SRGB color space since the printers the lab uses operate in SRGB color space.  While the Adobe 1998 color space offers a broader range of space, the end result is that much larger corrections need to be made to “rein in” the image to print correctly.  Any extreme corrections, be it in Photoshop or in the nondestructive database corrections used at LusteColor via the Kodak DP2 printing system, cannot give an optimum result.

Bottom line is set your camera to SRBG color space to get the best prints possible for you and your customer.

For a more in-depth look at the differences between color profiles check out this article from Will Crockett.