Introduction

It gives us, your authors, great pleasure to welcome you to this new edition. We would also like to thank you for all the support you have shown for LightScience & Magic over the past near quarter of a century. We sincerely appreciate it.

Since our previous edition, the photographer’s world—and everybody else’s—has changed radically. Long established markets, relationships, and business models have shrunk, if not completely collapsed. Once valued skill sets have been rendered useless, and the fees clients are willing to pay have been reduced in every market sector. All in all, it’s fair to say that not all things are rosy in today’s stressed-out image-making world.

There is, however, also a good—a very good—side to things. While ...

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