and so it starts. subscription camera ownership.

Saddest part is some idiots will pay the money.

Put a topic in the search bar and search groups. Check the results and find a group that’s active.

Make a Flickr account and join some communities.

Step one, get a diploma in basic business practice. Step two get an accountant. Step three advertise your : insert photographic specialty: to everyone.

But there are photos with black borders printed on white paper, so I don’t think it has much to do with the paper.

The white border give that feel of a classic hand printed photograph. The printing easel would mask the paper around the edge of the sheet of paper and leave the border. Very early in photography you would also see black borders on prints when they were contact prints from a negative held flat on the paper with glass, and the clear border of the exposed part of the negative would produce a black border.

In the printing industry and publishing/press fields the images would often have a rule line around them, a thin black line to especially stop a bright image bleed into the white paper and help the image stand out. A white border will help an image stand out from a dark background.

Any border helps to isolate an image from it’s environment like a frame on a wall. It give the image it’s own space and helps people to focus and concentrate on the subject. It contains someones attention. In a context like Instagram it hopes to stop you scrolling away and spend a few seconds appreciating the work. It certainly got your attention.

Tamron 60mm f2 macro

round reflectors will have a cone of light output and a rectangular reflector will have a bar of light output. Put a flash behind a diffuser and the light output will be the shape of that.

How will you be using the flash, close up, wide shots, zoom lens?

round reflectors will have a cone of light output and a rectangular reflector will have a bar of light output. Put a flash behind a diffuser and the light output will be the shape of that.

How will you be using the flash, close up, wide shots, zoom lens?

Firstly, big brands don’t hire people starting out in the business.

You build a body of work doing small shoots that show your own unique style over many years. You get an agent who will represent you and contact advertising agencies to promote your work.

With small gigs when starting out for lesser know brands, you will probably do all the hiring. Models, makeup artist, hair stylist, set designer etc. In this scenario you will have priced everything and submitted that with the contract.

When you get into the big league , you will walk in with your assistant, have a coffee while they set up your gear, then, once everyone else is ready, you step up and take the pictures and make real money.

Very true. Automation and AI technology are replacing skill and dedication.

People don’t need to learn photography now, they just need to learn to turn on their image capturing computer.

Have you considered making a photo book?

Sites like Snapfish or Vistaprint and a lot of department stores do them. Pick the size of book and the number of pages and design your own book. Size the images to fit the page, multiple images on a page, any size you want them to be.