How has digital photog changed your art/business
 

I am curious about how digital photography has changed things around your
studio. And the perceptions I'm looking for are not limited to those who
have changed over to digital, Those who stay with film can probably feel how
their clients perceive the product changing, or not.

Work flow, are you working longer on each order? Preparing client
presentations presale, post sale?

Are you shooting a lot more per client/assignment? Do clients expect more
now?

Are sales patterns changing, are you selling more prints, (single or several
pose packages) or selling more variety/sets (one each of a bunch of images)

Has client complaints or concerns changed?

How has digital photog changed your art/business
 

In article oyUBb.361182$ao4.1221127@attbi_s51,
zeitgeist says...

I am curious about how digital photography has changed
things around your studio.

The computers get bigger, and data backup is a major concern.

Work flow, are you working longer on each order?

Yes and no. I used to do some custom printing myself,
now it is digital output on a Fuji Frontier.

Much more accurate, much more possibilities in image
processing, many other very nice things - and bright
light plus food at the desk in comparison to stinky
darkrooms where food would be a major hazard.

Preparing client presentations presale, post sale?

Much easier, much more impressive for them.

Are you shooting a lot more per client/assignment?

No. I treat my DSLR just the way I would treat a
film body. The limit is rather flash cycle times
than fps on the camera.

Do clients expect more now?

Not necessarily, but the clientele is also changing.
It gets higher end for me much more easily now.
Some jobs I could have never done with the delays
of analog photography, they are exclusive to digital.

Are sales patterns changing,

Yes.

are you selling more prints,

I am rarely selling prints, usually I sell rights
of use.

Has client complaints or concerns changed?

Diminished.

--
Michael Quack

http://www.photoquack.de/glamour/1.htm
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How has digital photog changed your art/business
 

In article oyUBb.361182$ao4.1221127@attbi_s51,
says...
I am curious about how digital photography has changed things around your
studio. And the perceptions I'm looking for are not limited to those who
have changed over to digital, Those who stay with film can probably feel how
their clients perceive the product changing, or not.

I'm an advanced amateur, I have a day job. Equipment is my lovely new
EOS 10D and some cheap kit studio flashes. Studio is my living room with
black and white seamless hanging from the ceiling. I do portraits,
couples, male and female nudes. Just to give you an idea of where I'm
at.

Work flow, are you working longer on each order? Preparing client
presentations presale, post sale?

Sales aren't my thing. I charge models a nominal fee just to make sure
they're serious and will show up. Even factoring in my time on the
computer, preparing presentations costs much less than film. I generally
present a CD with and html based gallery of the shoot, and a printout of
thumbnails which models can annotate with their print requests.

Final prints are done on a photo printer at a local lab.

Are you shooting a lot more per client/assignment? Do clients expect more
now?

I'm shooting alot more now, but always with more confidence that I got
the shot I wanted. I keep the 10D connected to a 27" TV while shooting
and the model and I can review each shot as it's made (sometimes I have
to tell the model to stop looking at the screen). I take a test shot,
schooch a light over a bit and shoot again, change the pose just and bit
shoot another. When all that's just so, I might shoot a dozen quickly to
get just the right expression.

At my level, freedom from the costs of film batteries is significant.
While I used to stick with known good standard lighting, and only
shooting just a few with more dramatic light, now I can see what I'm
getting and feel free to experiment.

Are sales patterns changing, are you selling more prints, (single or several
pose packages) or selling more variety/sets (one each of a bunch of images)

Little diff here.

Has client complaints or concerns changed?

I find that the models relax and get into it much more quickly after
they see a few images on the screen and realize that it's all working.
The dynamic of the shoot seems much more collaborative, given the
feedback of the screen, than with film where the only feedback was from
the photographer. Telling someone they look great isn't as useful as
showing them that they do.

I sold my Elan II for parts. I'd not go back. Never.

Marc