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In the beginning there was Film...... But lets forget all that! Today's school photographer has and should continue to embrace digital camera technologies. Lets face it, digital photography was made for the school photographer! You shoot in controlled studio lighting, You can review captured images immediately, You can select your own images for printing, You can supply your customer with student images the same day.

Yes, you could say that's glossing over a lot of important issues but the fact is that school photography is the business of capturing great, saleable, pictures. Digital capture means you can view, modify and control your approach to your most precious business asset within minutes of its creation.....THE PICTURE. Click here to see the answers to some frequently asked questions. Next     1 / 2

1. Which white balance should I use? White balance determines the colour temperature of your images, just as different film types do (tungsten, daylight etc). Choose flash or set a custom white balance (please refer to your camera manual for specific white balance instruction). Custom white balance sets the white point using the colour temperature of your lights. 2. What image size/file type do I use? For individual portraits, we recommend a JPEG file of approximately 2mb (3024 fine on a Fuji S2 Camera). (17mb when opened in Photoshop) 3. Should I add sharpening to my pictures? Use a low level of sharpening on your images as we add some sharpening when they are printed. 4. Should I crop my pictures before I send them for printing? There is no need to crop in most cases, but if necessary, crop the image to the print size e.g. 8"x6" at a resolution to 300dpi.

5. My pictures look dark on the back of my camera but too light on my computer screen...why? You cannot rely on the image displayed on the back of the camera to judge exposure, view the histogram* graph to check exposure. Most cameras allow you to adjust the brightness of the screen to your preference . Computer screens should be calibrated using a suitable calibration tool such as Eye One. *A Histogram shows how the 256 possible levels of brightness are distributed in an image. It could be compared to a horizontal line with 256 positions which represent all levels of brightness from pure black (0) on the left, to pure white (255) on the right. Pixels of the same brightness are stacked together on the vertical axis. The higher the line coming up from the horizontal axis, the more pixels there are at that level of brightness. 6. Which colour space settings should I use? Select SRGB colour space on your camera. Previous     2 / 2