I can’t begin to tell you how many times over the years I’ve been asked the question. But there really is no one answer fits all type answer. A photoshoot can be pretty costly to say the least. At least a professional photoshoot. You may be wondering; “DJ, how much does it cost to do an actual full blown photoshoot?”
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Opening a photography studio may be somewhere in the distant future for many photographers. But it doesn’t mean it’s not on their minds.
I’ve been planning the opening of a small in house photography studio. Mind you; this isn’t for doing any major commercial projects. But more for testing and portraits.
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I had the opportunity to work with McKenzie Lynn in my studio recently. For those who know anything about me; you know just how much I dislike; no; hate shooting in studio. Especially my own.
For me; the toughest thing about shooting in studio is when I don’t have a lot of props or a fully built set.
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As some of you may be aware there is this holiday called Christmas on it’s way, and I promise that I’ve been a very good boy this year.
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One of the biggest challenges I see these days are new photographers who have no idea how to use f-stops. In fact; so many of them don’t have a clue about exposure. They seem to think that you underexpose your images and then fix it later in photo manipulation software.
While that is one way of doing it; it certainly isn’t necessarily the best or even right way of doing it. Hopefully I will help cut through the confusion in this post. Here is how to know what F-Stop to use to get the proper exposures.
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I’m sure this post is likely to piss off a few people, but it needs to be said. Or at least I think it does. I’m seeing a lot of people posting about how they’re reading this photography book, or watching that photography video etc. etc. etc.
Then they want to know how to book weddings and magazines and ad campaigns with all of like two months to a year shooting.
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