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My friend Joanne received the above inquiry via her website and sent it my way for help in responding. The following is my suggestion.

Dear Prospective Client,

Thank you for visiting my website. I am thrilled that you liked what you saw and reached out to me with an inquiry regarding my services.

If I understand correctly, you want to provide me with an SD card that I will use and give back to you so that YOU can retouch and order prints yourself.

Now, if that... more

Manfrotto has launched the XPRO Ball Head in the UK, joining existing fluid and geared heads in the XPRO lineup. It is offered with Arca-Swiss compatible Top Lock and 200PL camera plates and features a spherical locking mechanism alongside a Triple Locking System, the latter of which stabilizes the camera's position and keeps it from drifting via a trio of wedges. Read more

Back on June 1st, 2015, landscape photographer Nicolaus Wegner was on the scene as a massive supercell formed over the Black Hills of South Dakota near Rapid City. As the stationary storm unfolded over several hours before Wegner’s eyes, he shot photos at one-second intervals with... more

‘Bliss,’ the default wallpaper that shipped with Windows XP, was photographed in Sonoma County, California, and may be the most viewed photo of all time. For its upcoming Windows 10 operating system, Microsoft enlisted the help of creative director Bradley G. Munkowitz for a fresh new default... more

Polaroids Cube action camera presents an excellent option for adventurers on a budget. The Cubes CMOS sensor can capture decent 1080p video at 30fps, along with 6MP still JPEG images. Now, the company has... more

I love Canon cameras. I really do. And it was with great regret that I moved away from Canon last year after being an EOS system user my entire life. I started when I was 5 years old on my father’s EOS 300 film cameras and have then enjoyed every camera up to and including the 5D Mark III, but there was a problem.

Im sure it wasnt just me, Im sure a lot of other pros felt like Canon wasnt listening. The fact that it felt like I had been abandoned by the system Id bought... more

Photographer Levi Bettweiser and his Rescued Film Project got quite a bit of press back in January after... more

Shooting a self-portrait a day over many years to create “passage of time” videos has been a popular project ever since Noah Kalina’s everyday video took the Internet by storm several years back. One of the latest ones to surface is one of Daily Show host Jon Stewart that spans a whopping 16 years — and neither Stewart nor his show had anything to do with... more

At Photokina 2012, it felt as though Hasselblad was having a very public identity crisis. The company's foray into new product categories, via a relationship with Sony and an Italian design house, was not universally well received. We spoke with Hasselblad's new CEO, Perry Oosting, who assures us that the company will concentrate on re-connecting with the core values of the brand. Read more... more

Samsung has released a firmware update for its NX500 mirrorless camera. Among other things, the update enhances autofocus performance in several areas, increases the 4K video bit rate to 70Mbps, and reads out a larger areas of the sensor for improved 1080/60p video quality. More details

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