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A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business
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It seems certain that any lexicon covering new terminologies introduced within the era of the personal computer would include the word ‘photoshopped’. And I’d estimate that a large proportion of the general public would feel comfortable using it, in order to categorize a photographic image which has been extensively and digitally edited using a PC. It’s often, for example, taken to describe either the inclusion or deletion of an extra figure or subject within a group portrait. While Adobe Systems’ Photoshop® software can indeed be used alone for such image reconstructions, there are nowadays other, alternative digital toolkits which can be applied equally well to such a task.

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A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business
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It’s pretty self-evident I guess that to be a new entrant in the business of selling photographic prints online, then a reliable and high quality printer is a fully primary requirement. I’ve long been a fan of the Epson Stylus Photo line of digital inkjet products - not just the printers themselves, but also of the media available directly from Epson as well as selected products from third-party suppliers.

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A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business
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Since posting the introduction to this series, I’ve been busy completing a detailed configuration and design for the PhotoArtCanvas website. Part of that effort has involved actually producing some fully finished products - completed, full-size and mounted prints - such that photography of these can be completed for an online gallery and catalog. Below I’ve included samples from this pre-production exercise, allowing directly for “before-and after” comparisons. Lady before gentleman.

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Following on from the last post, John Stevenson, who is writing a series of articles on this blog, pointed me to http://www.photoattorney.com/, which contains great information. A blog by a lawyer, Carolyn Wright, there is great information here for those with questions about the various laws and how they apply to photography. Note that it does cover things from a US perspective.

On one of the lists I am on someone posted a link to a great website in response to a discussion of people being stopped from taking photos when there is no legal right to do so.

The link is here to Bert P. Krages web site. He is a lawyer who is also a photographer and has prepared a PDF document of your rights to photograph that you can carry with you incase of problems. It is for the US but a link to one for the UK is on his site.

Worth a look in this age of extreme paranoia and tendency to deny anything.

A Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business

To introduce myself first, I’m John Stevenson, of Colorado Springs in the fine state of Colorado in the U.S.A. And Wayne has very kindly decided to let me write some invited contributions to his blog for a while. I’m in the process of going into business, as PhotoArtCanvas (actually - legally - as Photoscena LLC d/b/a PhotoArtCanvas) and that will be what I’ll be writing about here, at weekly intervals or so.

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