As the digital age continues to evolve, we are constantly taking photos with our smartphones to share on social media, our websites, and other online platforms. While it is convenient to snap a quick photo with our phones, the reality is that these photos often need to catch up regarding professional quality. When it comes to taking a headshot, the quality of the image is even more critical. In this article, we will discuss why hiring a professional photographer for a headshot is better than using your iPhone and how professional lighting can make a big difference in the outcome of your headshot.

I’m amazed at the number of websites I look at that have very poor product shots. This is the primary reason I’m writing about what you should know about product photography.

Product images are important on a shopping website because they are the main way customers can see and evaluate the products they are interested in purchasing.

Additionally, well-organized and visually appealing product images can help to create a more engaging and user-friendly shopping experience for customers.

If you’re venturing into professional photography, the very first thing you need to do is invest in the proper equipment. Tapan Sheth, a professional photographer who has been featured in National Geographic, states that having the right camera gear can make “a world of difference” in the field. He emphasizes that having these gears are foundational in the career because their settings can greatly affect the outcome of each picture.

However, camera equipment can be hefty investments for photographers that are starting out. So, make sure that you’re choosing equipment that will serve you well throughout your career by referring to this guide:

Camera

When choosing a camera, you need to consider the specs that will help you properly capture your preferred subject. Professional digital cameras, like the Nikon D850 DSLR, are ideal for landscape photography. This is because these types of cameras have a 45.7-megapixel resolution, a focus shift feature, and a shooting speed of 7 or 9 fps. Meanwhile, those with AI-controlled AF sensors, powerful DIGIC processing systems and high-speed camera communications are better for sports or wildlife photography. By considering these key features, you can get a reliable tool for your field of photography.

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The 2015 -16 South Coast Travel Guide is schedule for distribution on the first week of June. I’m reminded of the amount of work required in getting the guide to print every year.

Where the South Coast Travel Guide is distributed

We supply the guide to small business on the South Coast from Fall River east to Wareham Mass. Businesses like coffee shops, restaurants, local small business, at local events, town halls and so on. There is no cost to the public for the 80 page guide.

What Makes it a challenge to produce

Not only relating to the photography, of which this year I shot most of it, including the cover. The work is in the all the details and content… especially the events and town sections. They require constant update and editing.

This South Coast Travel Guide publication is good for one year, so once the content is in edited and printed, it’s done, no changes until next publication! So as you might have guessed, it’s a little stressful hitting the deadline. No in fact it’s really stressful hitting the deadlines because there is a certain few people we are always waiting on for copy. Or should I say harassing for copy.

I should also mention that in order to make this publication possible it requires advertisers, and someone who’s job it is to sell advertisements to these people. Have you ever sold print, cold calling, business to business?

Then there’s the printing, shipping and 5 months of delivering to the nearly 275 locations.

What is the reward?

It’s a marathon, what makes it worth it though is all the calls, emails and such from people who really enjoy the travel guide as a resource.

Morgan Facts:

On her first voyage her crew was made up mostly from residents of Martha’s Vineyard and it was a long three years, three months and 27 days at sea.  First in the Azores and then around Cape Horn to the Pacific.

The Morgan would complete 37 voyages , it’s first with complete with a 35 man crew it would kill and “try out” 59 whales. On board the blubber was turned into oil, used for lamps, this oil would be housed in 32-gallon casks.

She would return home to New Bedford with an amazing 2,963 casks of whale oil, which was just about total capacity of the ship. The Lucky Mogan as her name was called, this reputation came from surviving many storms and an attack by Pacific islanders.

According to historians at Mystic she was profitable as well, her lowest fetch was $8,977.50 and her highest was $165,407.35, which back then was a very profitable catch.

Her brief and final voyage began Sept.9, 1920 and ended on May 29, 1921.The ship would spend the next three years at a pier in New Bedford Harbor, it was thought she would be scrapped.

On June 30,1924, the Morgan would be hit by a drifting steamer called the Stankaty, what was worse the Stankaty was ablaze. The Fairhaven fire department sayed the Morgan but it was seriously damaged.

Edward H.R. Green heir to one of the world’s biggest fortunes, a credit to his mothers conservative nature, Hetty Green, the “witch of Wall Street” as she was so UN-affectionately called.  Green would form and organization in 1925 that would repair and preserve the Morgan and that they did. In 1939, the Morgan Fund Committee was formed with intention of moving the Morgan from Round Hill in South Dartmouth back to New Bedford. But with the oncoming war and depression the Morgans fate was about to change. The trustee’s of the Whaling Enshrined would agree to send the Morgan to Mystic and the Mystic Historical Association, which is now called the Mystic Seaport now home to the Morgan.