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Finishing and presenting work

This final chapter is about completing your work and presenting it to other people in the most effective way. Finishing off means mounting, spotting if necessary, and deciding how pictures might be brought to the attention of potential clients. Probably you will have to trudge around showing your portfolio … or you may be lucky enough to get work published or have an exhibition … or you could decide to display your talent via the Internet. In all these forms of presentation communication skills are important. You not only have to pick what images to show, but how to back them up with verbal or written information.

The permanence of prints

Image stability is a vital element in professional photography. Clients ...

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