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1) Get a basic professional camera. A film or digital single-lens reflex camera is ideal because it allows you to choose different lenses for different assignments or switch lenses during assignments. It also gives you more control over exposure from shutter speeds to aperture settings. The camera body can be either the 35mm-style or the 2.25-by-2.25 medium format type. Standard 35mm-style film and digital cameras are made by Nikon, Pentax, Canon and others. The medium format-style camera is made by Hasselblad and others.

2) Get a good set of lenses to handle a variety of situations. Standard for the 35mm-style camera are wide-angle, normal and telephoto lenses. A good wide-angle lens range for film cameras is 18mm to 28mm. The same lens on most digital cameras is multiplied by 1.5, so an 18mm to 55mm zoom will give an effective focal range of 27mm to 82.5mm. Normal lenses are about 50mm. These give the same magnification as human eyes do, hence the “normal” label. Telephoto lenses begin with the portrait style, about 75mm to 80mm, and go up to about 1,000mm. At least one company, Nikon, has produced a single zoom lens that goes from 18mm to 200mm, giving a very wide range of focal lengths.

3) Set up a studio. This can be a room in your house, a garage or a separate space. While a lot of most photographers’ work is done outside a studio, one still is necessary as a workspace. The basics will include studio lighting and reflectors; some furniture such as chairs, couches or stools; some photo backdrops; a tripod; electronic flashes; and flash slaves. This all is for shooting photos in the studio, generally portraits. Whether you shoot in the studio or not, the following also are necessary for digital photography: digital media cards, card readers, a computer, a photo manipulation software package such as Adobe Photoshop and a printer. For film, you will need a darkroom with film-processing tanks and spools, an enlarger, print developing trays, film dryer, light table, chemicals, and paper. If you shoot on film, but process on the computer, you will need to develop the film, then scan it with a professional-level film scanner before working with it in Photoshop.

4) Design a business card, a website and a sample portfolio. You can do all of these yourself or you can contract them out. If you have a computer, design skills and a desktop publishing program, you can design your own business cards. These can include a photo or be more traditional. Simple website design can be done online with a service such as Homestead or on your own computer with your choice of software. The portfolio should consist of your best 50 photos in a photo album. These photos should represent the kind of work you do so clients can extrapolate it to their own job. You can have several photo albums for different types of clients, such as weddings, events, architecture, glamor, etc.

5) Begin to market by putting your website online and taking out an advertisement in the local yellow pages. You also can advertise in professional magazines if you want a wider-ranging clientele. If you have a storefront, the window is a good marketing tool.

6) Shmooze. Have business cards on you at all times. Many photographers get assignments by shmoozing at their current assignments. Talk to people about their kids, the grandkids, their anniversaries or whatever they want to talk about. Chances are some of them will need a photographer for an upcoming wedding or bar mitzvah or some other social event. Talk to them about their businesses. Give them a card, and if a good idea for a photo shoot that will help them comes into your head, pitch it on the spot.

7) Don’t forget the business end of your business. Price your work reasonably, but don’t lose money. In fact, there’s lots of free digital prints you can choose. While shooting photos for a living is fun, it still has to pay for you to live. Don’t buy that super nifty new lens if you don’t need it yet. Plan for equipment purchases. It’s better to put money into a backup camera body than a lens you may use once a year. The backup camera body can save your bacon if your regular camera fails during an assignment.

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It can be re-sizing, or adjusting the color balance or adding a special effect, there are a number of free software applications available for free on the net that help you edit, enhance and share your photographs. Here is my pick for the top ten best free photo editing software.

1. Picasa
No surprises here – Google’s Picasa tops the list. Picasa only works with the Windows operating systems. This software, just like all the Google applications, is extremely easy and convenient for the users. Picasa allows the users to edit and manage all your photos with effective tools that include cropping, special effects, brightness adjustments and many more interesting features. The best part about using Picasa is that after editing your photographs you can instantly create and online album and share your photographs with a

2. GIMP
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation program. It is a popular open-source image editor that is often dubbed as the ‘free Photoshop’. It helps the user with image authoring, retouching, and composition. It works on many operating systems and is available in many languages as well. It is designed to amplify with plug-ins and extensions and the advanced scripting interface allows the simplest and the most complex procedures to be easily scripted.

3. IrfanView
IrfanView is also one of the popular free software that allows the user to edit images with the basic image editing tools. Irfan Viewer works with Windows operating systems only. It also provides specific options for printing your photos. All in all a decent software that you can easily download and use to edit and print photographs.

4. PhotoPlus 6
Although the software was a paid one earlier, now you can download a completely free and fully functional version of PhotoPlus 6. This software provides a wide variety of features ranging from an export optimizer, image slicing and image maps, selection tools, smart shapes, editable text, third-party plug-in support, red-eye removal tool, and photo enhancement tools.

5. Paint.NET
Paint.NET is another free software. This software is funded by the donations on their website. Paint.NET works with Windows operating systems only. Unlimited undo is one very pertinent feature of this software. Although meant for the first timers, this software can be utilized to its full capacity by the more experienced ones. Also if you plan to print your photographs on matte or waterproof paper, then this is the software for you!

6.Pixia
Pixia is an English version of a popular Japanese photo editing software, which is also available in many other languages. Pixia works with Windows operating system just well. This painting and retouching software, provides the users with custom brush tips, multiple layers, masking, vector- and bitmap-based drawing tools, color, tone, and lighting adjustments, and multiple undo as well as redo. This software however does not provide support while saving files in the GIF format.

7. ImageForge
ImageForge is free software that allows image editing with painting and editing tools. One notable feature of this software is that it allows the users to import files from the dig cams and the scanners. While editing it also allows you to select from a wide range of special effects filters. Once you are done editing your photographs, you can create photo albums and slideshows using ImageForge.

8. Adobe PhotoShop Album Starter
Yes, Adobe offers this free software for image editing. It helps you to fix the common photography errors like the red eye effect, poor lighting or improper color balance. You can find any of the saved photographs within no time thanks to the automatic organization feature that lets you view all photos in one place in a calendar view. Adobe Photoshop is decent software for personal use that helps the users view fix and share their digital photographs.

9. PhotoFiltre
PhotoFiltre is a free image editing software that provides the users with a rather minimalist but a rather elegant interface. This software offers many easy and convenient one-click adjustments that are very useful for the beginners. PhotoFiltre offers an in-built image explorer panel that ensures easy navigation, basic drawing, painting, retouching and the selection tools.

10. Ultimate Paint
Ultimate Paint is a useful image editor that is available in both shareware and freeware formats. It offers convenient image creation, manipulation and display. Ultimate paint is one of those software categories that have been designed to make the photo editing process quick and easy.

Well now that you’ve got enough information about all the free photo-editing software options available, you will be able the pick one that satisfies your requirements. Now you can start look at free digital prints as well. Banish those poorly taken snap shots and make way for brighter, sharper and better memories!

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