Photography For Contractors

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Photography For Contractors Get publication-quality photos with a digital camera and expert lighting techniques Steve Greenberg Short of dragging prospective clients to your job sites, photography is the only way you're going to be able to show them examples of your work. But dim, blurry, poorly composed images aren't likely to impress anyone. Fortunately, while there may be some special projects where it pays to hire a pro, taking your own high-quality architectural photographs isn't difficult. The key to getting great photos is your digital camera. Although you could easily spend an arm and a leg on a pro-quality digital

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• This is an EXCELLENT article and covers the basics that make for great product shots - lighting, composition, and sharpness. However, it is weak in one area - image post-processing. Post-processing an image using something like PhotoShop is critical to high quality shots. Many times, even with careful lighting, composition, and sharpness, you will find that the pics aren't quite 'there'. After viewing the image on your computer, you'll find see little things that you missed when taking the image. Simple techniques like 'Cropping', 'Levels', and 'Unsharp Mask' can improve a very good pic to a great pic and change a poor pic to a decent pic. Using PhotoShop's 'Resize' and 'Save for Web...' are important for publishing pics to the web to meet forum constraints and make it easier for potential customers to download. PhotoShop comes in several versions. I find that even the least expensive version - PhotoShop Elements - is fine for the vast majority of post-processing. A followup article covering post-processing with PhotoShop or other simple tools would be very useful. Thanks, Dan.

  Posted by: Dan Clark on July 16th 2007

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