Digital photography

Question for ya'll, I have the local university wanting to use my image in their prospectus.

How should I go about licencing the image and does anyone have ideas on how to price this kind of work?

I don't mind that, I am probably gonna have 2 halves, me talking and them doing so I can go have a coffee...

Not sure about tethering though, because it'd enter a whole new world about shooting, when to tether and when not to, that's a whole day... thanks for the input though.

It looks like workflow is more important than the actual editing and playing with levels, colours etc...

It looks like workflow is more important than the actual editing and playing with levels, colours etc...

I think so. 'Edit' is probably best discovered through play.

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Absolutely. Maybe show them some tricks like black levels and curves but one thing I wish I'd learned earlier on was syncing for batch stuff.

In fact, anything batch related will probably save a few of them a ton of time at some point in their lives.

I find the use of actions in Photoshop to be very handy and is one of those things you don't realise is there until someone tells you

It sounds shit but just ask for a reasonable sounding figure to them. Ie. Don't expect much.

Unless they're dead set on your photo they will likely say there's someone else's photo they can use for free. And it's quite likely the case.

I used to do press shots for a record label. 10 edited shots £150. Not mind blowing but convert it to an hourly wage it's it's pretty good.

Otherwise photos don't have much value unfortunately. Every man and his dog has a camera.

I would say try £50 but you might get lucky and get way more. Depends who you're dealing with.

Actions? Whossat?

@Well_is_it,m 'Sync'is the magical moment I enjoy showing the most! :-)

@Dogtemple, isn't Actions quite similar to syncing images in Lightroom? I fidn it a little crumblesome to work with if you are doing loads of complicated stuff... but I get the point, I wasn't shown that for years...

I think what I want to educate them as well is this - get the basics right when shooting the pics, post production can do a lot but it surly can't save a shit picture... and I have seen it so many times...

I'm not sure what syncing is, I don't use Lightroom, I never do batch stuff and found photoshop could do everything Lightroom could do and loads more. for what I do at least. so never saw any need in using it

but actions I use turn something that would take a couple minutes of messing each time into a one second thing via actions and can link it to the keys on my Wacom tablet so its just a press button thing.

the photos I post on here all need stuff doing with duplication, cropping, size adjusting, channel adjusting and a levels layer and go from there. so that is ideal for setting up as an action as its the same every time for all those bits. again that can take a few mins mucking about each time but an action makes it happen in the blink of an eye.

@LHL an action is basically a recording of the steps you do in photoshop, so you can replay them automatically as and when. ideal if you have to do something regularly or theres loads of steps and you just want to make it in to a one step thing.

For example I use an action to invert, convert to B+W and save batches of scanned negatives.

Cheers @Dogtemple.

So then, linked to the above, and in search of education. What tools in photoshop or lightroom do you good folks find useful, but aren't obvious/easy to find?

I'll start with an easy one- layers. Amazing things.

Clone stamp.

@Dogtemple, Sync in Lighroom is pretty much like Action except you don't save anthing as such. So you would do all your editing in 1 image then you select the rest you want to apply to same edits to, the your press the Sync button. Bob's your uncle!

@LHL, adjustment layers! Keeping the original image in its nature form, for better or for worse...

Clone is my favourite too!

love this one

LR is really for use managing photos in volume through selection, approval, edit, output etc. It suits light editing or use alongside PS.

This could be a still from Blowup.

What tools in photoshop or lightroom do you good folks find useful, but aren't obvious/easy to find?

Sharpening with duplicated layer and high pass filter, in addition to changing opacity of the filter-layer, and erasing parts of it.

thats a good one! high pass sharpening is really use full

also using the levels and bringing in the black and white sliders on the histogram to where it goes from a flat line and starts to go up (if that makes any sense...) makes a substantial difference

something I do which can add some interesting colour toning is to take a curves layer, pull the curves about all over the place in the red and blue channels, reduce the opacity to <15% and try different blending modes on the curve layer.

layer masks are very useful too

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/albums/72157676482275303

Loving your protest shots Will!

The Donald is good news.

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