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So I am wanting to surprise a friend of mine with a basic home studio and I don’t know very much about what is needed to do this.
What add on would I need to put on the camera to make the umbrella lights go off? (It is an Olympus Evolt SLR)
Is it better to get umbrellas that are activated without wires?
Here is an umbrella set I am considering (not to bid on this auction, but maybe something similar): http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-PHOTO-STUDIO-FLA…
If I were to buy umbrellas similar to these, and had an add on to the camera, as well as a backdrop…is there anything else really needed for a basic home studio? Any links for products and suggestions would be so appreciated!
Please experienced photographers help!

I do have a pretty basic HP scanner/printer and am happy to spend the time, but is this the only way to transfer all my original photographs from 35mm film. I do not want to loose such a huge part of my life

USING SPARE CAMERA, PARE TIME TO MAKE EXTRA CASH

MY EXPERIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY MAKING MONEY

There are a lot of articles which are talking about how to make money from your photograph and camera. The reason I am writing here is to give out my true experience of using photograph to make money. I hope this article has some practical help to those people who have interests to use their spare time and spare resource to generate some extra income. This article is not a sort of advertisement or course to teach you to get quick money. It is only a practical guide to the people who like to try some different things, of course, if you have some photography background and art talent, I am sure you will be very interested in my experience. If you invest some serious energy and time on what I did ( I am a lazy person), maybe you can make a good living though this.

This journey started when I got my first digital camera. It is first time for me to have so much passion to take photo. My first digital camera is SONY Cyber Shot 5M pix compact digital camera. I took a lot of photos and stored them in my hard drive. One day, when I clean my hard drive, I ask myself, how I can deal with so many photos. Some of them are actually pretty good, like professional photograph. I used Photoshop (an image process software package) to process some of them and decide to sell them to make some money. And I found a stock photo web (I will introduce it later) and uploaded them. After several weeks, my photos start to generate income for me. Several months later, the photograph becomes my major hobby. I spent a lot of money to buy Canon EOS 350D digital camera to take more photos.

You must ask what can I do if I haven’t got any digital camera? Do not worry, just use your existing resource, I believe got 35mm film camera on hand. These days, a multi-functioner which includes scanning function doe not cost you over 100 dollars. You can get one scan your hard copy and digitalize them. Or, you just buy a digital camera. Digital camera get cheap and cheap today. It will save you a lot developing cost and you can make any amount of practice. You must say I have no confidence to make good photos. I will say, I can do it, you can do it, everyone can do it. Your photos do not have to be perfect as a professional photographer did. And there are lot of references can help you to start take photo. For example Digital Photography Beginners Guides is a really good 4-parts e-book to teach you step by step.

You must ask what I can shoot. You can shoot everything eg. people, static things, animals, pets, flowers, architectures, abstract things and so on. My experience is take my camera to everywhere, thus, I can take photo any time. If you are specialized in some realm, it could be even better. There also some resources you can make reference such asNew Pet Photography EBook

Now, I will introduce the stock photo web I used for sell photos. If you search on search engine, there are a lot of stock photo website now. I tried some of them. I think this is the best one, which is FOTOLIA

There some reasons I choose FOTOLIA

1. It is absolutely free to register. After register, you can use your account to buy some photos and you can also sell your photos.

2. It is very easy to register. There are a lot of stock photo web site require you to provide photo ID. FOTOLIA does not require your photo ID. So, you can get instant access to your account after register. This point actually attracts me to give up the others, because I am a person who does not like to give my photo ID to someone I don’t know over Internet.

3. The photograph approval is very fast comparing others. If you have tried other stock photo web you will find FOTOLIA is really fast.

4. And your photograph are very easy to get approval. This is really important to us. Because we are not professional. Only if our photograph to meet commercial requirement, FOTOLIA will accept.

5. FOTOLIA has good marketing, therefore, your photograph will be sell very fast. The speed level is much higher than the others.

6. There are millions photos in stock and millions user to use FOTOLIA

7. The payment method is flexible. You can choose FOTOLIA to pay check to you. But, what I like is FOTOLIA does accept PayPal. If you have a PayPal account, it is very convenient to receive your payment. Many other stock photo webs do not recognize PayPal.

8. FOTOLIA assigns a unique link to each photo you uploaded. It is very convenient to promote your work.

9. You do not have to do promotion, because FOTOLIA has very good marketing online. However, you can still do marketing by yourself to dramatically increase your sell.

Statistic shows, generally speaking, each photo can make one dollar profit per year. You must say: what, you got be joking, one dollar a year. Please do not ignore this one dollar. If you take, to say, 10 photos a day, ( I believe you can. Usually, if I go somewhere for travel, I usually take at least 3 roll films. After getting digital camera, the amount I take is much more than before during one trip. If you go somewhere average two weeks. You take, to say, 3 rolls: 24×3=72 or 36×3=108, or 140 digital photos) one year, your will take 3650 photos, they will generate at least 3650 dollars. FOTOLIA also allow you to sell extensive license of your photo. It will make much more profit for you. And the most important is that your sales will not stop there. Your photos will be sold again and again. So, if you continue to upload photos for several years, you can imagine that, what will happen? Assume you upload same amount of photos per year. This will not increase your workload. The profit of the first year is 3650 dollars. In second year, you will get 7300 dollars in cash. In third year you will get paid over 10,000 dollars extra income. And it will be over again and again, never stops. Go to FOTOLIA to register and get free account now and start sell your photos.

Also, can you recommend any online digital photography courses at the beginner to intermediate level?

I’d like to start a small home digital photography studio but with minimum budget (around 3000 $) but I feel its impossible. also What are the main equipments needed plus any recomended websites portrait snaps training?