It is mostly practice
However, the camera and lens features may made your manual focusing journey easier or difficult. First, modern lenses and cameras are not made for manual focusing. There is no scale. Fly by wire is not precise because it scales based on how fast you focus. They tend to have a shorter focus throw. Older cameras can have a focusing system optimized far manual focusing like the split prism focusing screen.
asus proart
Dell ultra sharp
Benq photovue
Look for colour accuracy.
Learn how to calibrate the monitor with software.
While PC has a lot more options, as you are experiencing, the trouble with PCs is that it becomes up to you to make sure that all of these systems can talk together without issue.
You should try the software recommended.
If you have overwritten the data you’ll be out of luck. Imagine your images slash data as occupying mail box holes. When you write information onto the card, you are pushing all the old data out and are replacing it with new data. When you format a card, it tells the computer that all boxes are ready to receive information. While they are indicating that they are empty, they still have the old data in the box, ready to be pushed out.
Data recovery software looks at the boxes for data that hasn’t been pushed out yet.
It sounds like you are going to get set up for disappointment. Headshots should be consistent for everyone at the office. But …
At a party, people are getting progressively more drunk.
The indoor office lighting is rarely flattering.
Natural lighting (assuming it is during the day) is always changing adding additional challenges to keep one head shot the same as the next.
There is a YouTube channel with a good guide on “the Slanted Lens”. There are many more guides on YouTube for you to get the information you need.
The book light science and magic.
The principles it will teach you will apply to both natural and artificial light.
While trapped at home, I have a suggested exercise. Choose a window and a subject. Use that window to light your subject. Take pictures of the object through out the day. Note where the sun is in relation to the sky. Note the amount of clouds and diffusion. Take copious notes noticing the direction and quality of light as the day changes.
Get well soon.
Before he made some very pretty watches, he was a photographer. One of Ming thein’s early articles involves a three piece article about his approach on how he photographed watches.
https://blog.mingthein.com/2012/03/05/watch-photography-part-one-introduction/
tripods are made to last.
With that kind of budget look on whatever second hand online market that is available to you. Someone out there is going to be looking to get rid of their tripod or camera gear. Look for mislabeled tripods. The more accurate the description, the closer to retail price.
Anything heavy and sturdy (but you are willing to carry) will be up your alley.
More and more conflict photographers are local. They have the intimate knowledge of the area and become their own fixers.
Well there is a pretty wide range of options depending on your budget and willingness to set something up.
The easiest and trouble free are the Fuji instax or Fuji instax wide. (You can also go Polaroid sx70 if your budget allows.)
There are small volume digital printers that you can connect to the camera or read off the sd card like the canon selfy (I think I spelled its name wrong.) Not too expensive and doesn’t take up much space. But it is not the quickest printer.
On the other end of the spectrum that is a fixed location and based on a digital workflow, bring a laptop any photo printer. Shoot teathered and print from Lightroom.
More optical groups for correcting optical aberrations.
Zeiss otus 55mm is massive for a 1.4 lens