When you’re working in photoshop, try using the OPTION button with your tool. Pretty much all of them have a handy option. E.g.:
Paintbrush - option becomes the eyedropper so you can quickly change colors.
Select tool - option becomes duplicate
Eraser - option becomes magic eraser (erases back to the version of the file you first opened)
Dodge - option becomes burn
Etc. Once you master these quick option-commands, you’ll shave hours off your editing time!
Many of you may be aware of this, but Rebel Fish finds it pretty fascinating! There’s a custom camera being developed that captures 1 BILLION pixels in each exposure. From their Web site:
The Gigapxl™ camera captures single exposures on film with enough resolvable detail to support scanning at resolutions up to four billion pixels. Single-gigapixel images are slightly larger than 44,000 x 22,000 pixels in size and four-gigapixel images are twice as wide and twice as high at 88,000 x 44,000 pixels.
One way of visualizing the size of a four gigapixel image is to consider a photograph of a regulation football pitch (soccer in USA) which is 90m x 45m. A four gigapixel top-down photograph of the entire field at 1mm per pixel would cover an area of 89.4m x 44.7m, which is 99.38% of the indicated size. This mm-per-pixel scale represents perhaps as many as 100 pixels per blade of grass across an entire pitch captured in a single exposure.
When you’re meeting with a prospective client, do you dive right into your song and dance, or do you take your time? Remember, when they’re hiring a wedding photographer, they’re hiring the personality as much as the photography.
Rebel Fish always first asks how much time the couple have for the meeting; if they’re not in a rush, then she opens up with asking about the couple. Where did they meet? What do they do? What do they study? Etc. Get them talking about what they enjoy! Ask them what they’re looking for in a photographer, rather than telling them about who you are. Ask them how they see their wedding day, what kind of mood, location, decorations are they planning on?
This is a great way to warm the prospective clients up, and it makes the meeting much more fun! By the time you get around to showing them your stuff, they’re actually interested because you’ve shown an interest in them.
Swim on!