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Does he recommend it for exposure or color balance? Probably the latter, but either way I don’t usually use one. Occasionally I do, but not regularly. I think a simple gray card can be useful for white balance and to eliminate color case fro your lights or other environmental reflections. This looks decent for a modest price: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1014557-REG/dgk_color_tools_dkk_set_of_2_dkk_poly_bag_2.html
Thanks for sharing this example, Kate. What amazing work!
I like the three types of work you outline, and I feel like they represent different ways to think about time. Preservation is a snapshot in time, Conservation slows down time, and Restoration reverses time!
I’ve had two situations in the last week where I was able to navigate this in a way that felt safe and gracious. I met one client for a pickup and I opened my trunk, stepped aside, and asked her to put her stuff in the my trunk we we didn’t have to be closed.
The other client needed my to pick up some materials, so I texted to confirm and said I’d meet her at her porch and that I’d be the one in the mask. It was my attempt to be a little funny, but also set expectations that I wouldn’t come inside, would keep my distance, etc. It was great to see her and we had a great conversation, but all at a distance!
You have two good options: 1. Open the Photos library with Apple photos and export the images from the File menu or 2. Control-click on the Photos library in the Finder and choose “Show Package Contents” in the window that opens find a folder called Originals or Masters and copy that to another place on your hard drive.
When it says “three backups” it should probably say “three copies.” That would be the master copy, a backup, and an offsite backup. That said, if you had a master copy the three backups that would be bad.
Regarding the two media types, this is a phrase that goes back decades, when were were using Syquest disks, CDRs, or DVD-R media as a secondary backup. The technology has changed and I think hard drives are the only viable option these days and I wouldn’t rely on optical media. Some reinterpret “two media” to mean two different manufacturers of hard drive, spinning drive vs SSD, or hard drive vs cloud backup.
I use a cloud service for offsite backup, but I also keep an offsite copy on hard drives. It’s cheap and easy, and with a bit of discipline you have a fast recovery option under your control.
After you start to get busy with multiple clients, I think this is one of the hardest aspects of the work we do. Right now I have too many big projects and I’m struggling to juggle it all and keep up. With new leads I’;m gaining the confidence to tell them I’m too busy and offer them a spot on my wait list in a few months, and fortunately they’re all accepting that.
Ideally I’d work on one project at a time, be totally dedicated to that client, and finish as quickly as possible. In the real world, clients get distracted or busy and it’s helpful to have multiple projects to interleave and fill the schedule.
Keeping track of all this is important, including tracking each active job and managing your waiting list.
Hey Karen, if you have the correct foot pedal for your camera, then you connect the foot pedal to your camera. the end of the foot pedal cable should go in the port with an icon for a little button on a cord. The shape of each port is unique, so it won’t go in a “wrong” port.
If you dropped the drive while it was running then you probably crashed the read/write heads. Repairing this is possible, but not easy. Drive Savers has the best reputation in the industry, but be prepared to spend hundreds of dollars, or even. few thousand. My friend got an estimate for $3200 from them and decided it wasn’t worth it: https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com
Holly, I had never done this before but I just tried it out and found it to be very simple. I downloaded their desktop app from here: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Photos/b?ie=UTF8&node=13234696011
Then I logged in to my account where I had a few test images.
Then I clicked the download option and told it to download all my images to my hard drive, as you can see in this screenshot. It will probably take a long time if you have a ton of photos, but it was easy to initiate.
I’ve never done this and I wouldn’t for two reasons:
1. If the client prints the files and something goes wrong, they might blame you, not themselves or the printer. That’s a terrible situation to be in where you get the blame, you can’t control it, and you’re not even getting paid to fix it.
2. As you do more album/book design you’ll discover that the profit is in the product, not the service. This is because you can scale a product, but you can’t scale for time. An example will help: If you charge an hourly rate for five hours of design time at $100/hour and have a $100 markup on the book, then you’ll make $600 on the project. But if you do an amazing job and the client loves our work and wants to give a copy to her sister and her eight grandkids, then you can sell 10 copies of the book and make a profit of $1500 ($500 for time and $1,000 on 10 books). Remember, when it comes to books and albums your profit should come from the product.
If you give away digital layouts then you’re maximizing your risk and minimizing your profit. That’s not a good business model!
I created my LLC myself with templates from the internet. I didn’t think it was that difficult and the costs were about $150 to file in my state. It saved me hundreds of dollars compared with an online service and years ago I paid an attorney $2500 to do all the filing for another company I started, and I didn’t want to spend that money again.
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