What Do I Need to Start a Photography Business? 7 Great Tips

It is easier than ever before to start up a photography business. Years ago, so much equipment was needed for taking your shots and then processing them, as well as the need good size rooms for a light room, and perhaps a studio. Then an office was needed to run things from, so there's two or three rooms required to start with plus thousands in equipment. Thanks to technology, it is possible to run everything from just one or two rooms, and also perhaps using equipment you already have, so even starting a photography business from home is truly a viable option. So what do you need to start a photography business?

Here are several essentials you need to look at for starting up your photography business.

1. Decide how many rooms you need. If it's just an office, then this is much easier. If you need a studio, then perhaps you could consider converting the garage into one if you want to work from home. Be sure to check relevant council or authority regulations if you have customers coming to your home. Otherwise, it might be an idea to look at renting premises.

2. To start off with, all you really need is a good quality DSLR, lenses and flash. Any other equipment you need depending on the job you do, can easily be hired as and when.

3. A reliable powerful computer. If you are reading this, it is likely you already have one, so use it until you make some money and then invest in a dedicated computer for your business.

4. Software. Photoshop is of course the industry standard, but it isn't essential you use this software. Other software like Corel Draw, Photoshop Elements, even the free Gimp are perfectly acceptable alternatives.

5. Get yourself a website, and promote your work on it. Put your portfolio up to give people a taste of what you're about. Don't forget to put your contact details on!

6. Be sure to find out about the legal side of things, eg taxation, insurance, and so forth.

7. Passion, desire and a creative eye. But you already have these, don't you?

These are just simple tips for just getting a rudimentary business up and running, and to start bringing in some money. It is advisable that you seek professional guidance in setting your business up and there are many ways you can do this, research, reading, and your local authority may also have some start up business help and assistance scheme too.

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Portrait Photography Lighting Styles - Rembrandt Lighting

Learning from the old masters
The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn used painting techniques suggesting ambient light rendering shadows and highlights which created the illusion of a three dimensional portrait. Filmmakers and photographers have picked up on this technique and applied it to portraiture and scene lighting.

A host of work to analyze
Examples of this can clearly be seen in Rembrandt van Rijn's work, which include his many self portraits, A Polish Nobleman, Atemisia, Portrait Of An Old Man In Red and a host of others.

Nothing without light
Once the new digital photographer has eventually got to grips with the plethora of equipment that add to the photographic experience, he or she can delve into the exiting world of portraiture and lighting. Photography does not exist without lighting. Rembrandt lighting has become infused as a lighting technique alongside broad portrait lighting, short portrait lighting, split portrait lighting and butterfly portrait lighting.

Similar Technique
Rembrandt lighting is similar to short or broad lighting where the key light is placed on the narrow or broad side of the face leaving one section of the face in shadow. Imagine your subject facing directly towards the camera with the key light placed right of the camera, more to the side of the subject and above the head. The subject turns towards the light creating a shadow on the other side of the face. The shadow can be placed on the opposite side by the subject turning away from the key light. This simple technique is enough to create some interest in the portrait and is generally a food starting point.

The essential difference
The difference between these lighting techniques and Rembrandt lighting is in the nose shadow. The key light must be placed in a critical position in relation to the subject and the camera so that the nose shadow connects with the large shadow on the same side of the face. This must result in a triangle of light under the eye, Rembrandt's signature in his portraits. The contrast created can be reduced using a fill light with the desired intensity placed on the shadow side of the face or on the camera axis towards the subject.

Dramatic results
This lighting style is linked to chiaroscuro lighting where shadow and light are used to sculpture the subject. The effect is dramatic and lends itself to rugged portraits mainly suited to men. Rembrandt implied natural ambient lighting which seemed to favor harsh sunlight or fire sourced light as used in The Night Watch painting. If extended to broader subjects showing location, the low key technique of Rembrandt and chiaroscuro produce dramatic results that have also been exploited by the film industry. This can be seen in old films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame. However, in modern photography and movies softer lighting sources are used while still maintaining the Rembrandt triangle under the eye.

Legacy
There is no doubt that Rembrandts legacy exists in the creative lighting techniques developed and employed by the modern photographer and filmmaker to create depth in these essentially flat mediums.

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