Next year I’ll be taking a Photography class in school. Considering my birthday is soon, I figured that I’d get it now. We really don’t have that much money, so what is a cheap (or decently priced) photography camera that takes good pictures? Thanks.

You may want to check with your counselor/teacher about what kind of camera you need. Are you sure you’re not supposed to have a 35mm FILM camera?

Be sure to check!!! At my HS, everyone has to have film cameras.

Anyway (happy birthday, btw–mine was Saturday), it depends on how much cash you have.

~less than $100–not sure I can help here. Check out craigslist for your area if you only have like $50 to spend. You can probably pick up a 5 megapixel camera for $20 or so

~$100-200 I suggest the Fuji s5700. It’s on sale at CIrcuit city right now for $150.

If you can afford a DSLR, go for it!

btw, I would stay far away from Kodak cameras. From my experience, they take the noisiest pictures ever!! (noisy meaning grainy)

Don’t shop just based on how many megapixels the camera features. Kodak, for example, is bad with this–their cameras usually offer high MPs for low prices, but you get what you pay for.

Once you find a model online that you think you’d like, check out www.flickr.com and look up the camera model to see some sample shots by that camera to see what it’s capable of.

Good luck!!

I want to sell some prints of my photography. I put some on Etsy and haven’t gotten any responses or even any views yet. Have any of you ever sold your photography? How much did you sell it for and where? Was it successful? Do you know a good place to buy the protective sheets and cardboard backing for a pretty good deal? Any advice for selling photography prints would be greatly appreciated.

A good starting reference for how to sell your photography is "Sell & Resell Your Photos" by Ron Engh. It’s published by Writer’s Digest Books. Although it’s mostly about stock Photography, Engh covers other markets for your photography as well. You might be able to find copies of this book at your local library; your local bookstore; or at Amazon.com. You can also go to Engh’s website www.photosource.com.

The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) also puts out various publications on how, where and for how much to sell your photographs. Their website is www.asmp.org.

In "Sell & Resell Your Photos" Engh also lists suppliers where you can get the protective sheets and other supplies you would need.

Hope this helps, and good luck to you!

I’m going to a community college for an associates degree in communications with a concentration in photography. Could I get enough money to buy a Canon 5D Mark II? ~$3,000. I’m planning to use it all throughout school. How would I go about getting loans or grants for this purchase?
My tuition is around a grand a semester, also.
I’m already paying tuition myself. I never applied for financial aid before. My parent can’t afford to help at all.

If a camera is required equipment for your program of study, yes, it is an Educational expense that is a legitimate use of a student loan. Getting the loan is not related to whether or not you have already paid for your tuition and fees. File the FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov with your and your parent’s information and PINs and contact your school to make sure that your information is received later next week. How soon you get your funds will depend on their refund policy, however, so check that out with the financial aid office for disbursement dates before you contract for the camera and follow through with all the paperwork.

Hey

I’m an amateur at Photography, I have quite a bit of shots and I’d like to start a portfolio. It’d like to have one because I’ll be taking a photography class in the fall. My question concerns how the photographs should be organized. Should I place all the best shoots form one shot together or spread them around with other shots from other shoots? Is there a certain way it should be organized?

Thanks.

portfolio organization depends largely on your audience. i.e., who is going to be looking at it. many artists make the mistake of designing the porfolio for themselves. determine what it is your client is looking for. ask as many questions as possible or find out info about the client that will give you some clues as to what to include and omit.
if you just want to put together a broad porftfolio organize by subject: landscape, portrait, abstract, etc. within each subject try to organize thematically. keep photos from the same shoot together.

I am going to school for Photography but we have not gotten to the part of what type of camera to use…and so on.
Right now I am using a Canon Rebel XT EOS, for my classes….
Can anybody help me out? After my schooling I want to open my own Photography Studio.

Canon 5D.

I’m assuming you want to stay with Canon.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=139&modelid=17662

I already have a camera for my personal pictures and everything, but I need a nice high quality one for my Photography. And by affordable, like, $400 and less-ish? Giving out best answer.

High quality at low price = film camera.

Look at 35mm SLR’s from the following manufacturers:
Nikon
Pentax
Canon

I’m new to Photography and I meant another photographer who told me he sales some of his work at galleries.

How do you submit to Galleries?
How do you find them?
Do you have to pay to submit anything???

I would really appreciate the help here!

his is something I have done for a long time. The first place to start is at any local galleries. Visit the gallery to see the type of art they display. They may or may not be a "fit" for your work. You will usually always have to pay rental according to how much space you want to have, plus the gallery will take a commission from anything you sell, usually 40%, so you have to price your work to make a profit after the commission is taken out.

To get into galleries in different parts of the country, the easiest way is to go to Google and type in these words…

call for entries

This will bring up many sites and galleries seeking work for submission. It is simply a matter of following the requirements of the gallery. There will usually always be a theme they want photos to meet. Yes, there is in most cases a fee you must pay to submit your photos, whether they are chosen to be in the showing or not. So be prepared to lose some money in submission fees. If your photo(s) is selected to be in the gallery, it can mean you may have to send a print yourself and they will frame it, or you may have to print and frame it yourself, or some galleries will print your high resolution digital photos themselves. I prefer to have prints made by my lab so I know the quality is what it should be, but then, if it does not sell, you have to arrange for return shipping. If the photo sells out of the gallery exhibit, again there will be a commission to the gallery.

This can be a lot of work, but also a labor of love. It is very gratifying to have your work acknowledged by the art community. In time, you will fall into the "clique" and will be having galleries contact you with calls for entries. I have received two this week already, plus I have works submitted to 3 different exhibits around the country.

One word of reality though. Do NOT expect to get rich, or even make a living doing this. I know of NO one that makes a steady, living income from selling photos through galleries like this. So don’t quit your day job! lol Most photographers supliment their income with the usual portrait or wedding work, or just have other "real" jobs for steady income. I have sold as many as 4 photos in a couple of weeks, and have also gone for months and sold nothing.

So this is really something you do for the love of it and to be a part of the art community, don’t go into it expecting to make any real money.

I’m planning on starting my own photography Business with many different types of photography, from sports, landscape, and even portraits. I plan on starting at schools for High School sports and then working my way up eventually. Does anyone know what a yearly salary could be averaged or anywhere close? Thank you so much!

If you are self-employed you can pay yourself anything you want.

To establish what you charge for shooting and prints, you will have to do a P&L sheet which includes your fixed and variable costs as well as the cost of capitalizing your business.

If you figure that you will have to generate cashflow that is about 5x what you want in your pocket at the end of the day you can do a rough estimate of your fee schedule

Remember to include replacing your camera body every 18-24 months and your computer(s) every 2 years as well as upgrading your photo software

To pay myself $80,000 a year (before taxes), I have to generate just over $250,000 in cash flow.

I’m doing a research project on photography and was just wondering if there’s a possibility of having a list of cameras you would use for photography.
Ex: What kind of pictures would you use to have photographs of nature with HQ?

Digital cameras don’t have that certain HQ I look for in a proffesional camera.

I use the following cameras:

Minolta 7sII – Significant human events
Leica M3

Nikon D50 – Snapshots and eBay product Photography

Canon 5D – For producing images that will be printed as digital negatives

Mamiya RZ67 – For landscape and bodyscape

Calumet 4×5" – For pinhole photography, tintypes and Dags

Wista 8×10" – For alternative process landscape photography

I recently saw some gallery wildlife prints that were taken in digital and was astonished by how good they were. However, the landscapes in digital looked terrible. (I couldn’t believe they were hanging on the wall.)

Tonality and detail is the key to fantastic landscape photography. No hand held digital can deliver that yet. World class landscape photography is still the realm of medium and large format film. No question.

I want to get into Photography, but I don’t know what camera to ask for christmas…
like a nikon or so what?

One things for sure the Nikon D40 ain’t it, cheapest possibly, best? nah.

This is one generation back, which explains the price, but the spec will knock the socks of a Nikon D40, even the D60 in every department.

http://www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk/2043/Pentax-K100D-Super-Digital-SLR-Camera-Body—Pentax-18-55mm-lens.html

Build quality, number of lenses that will auto focus on it (and the price of them), number of functions, every lens is image stabilized as its built into the camera. The list goes on.

Chris