new to this, question about camera!!!

[msol]

Hi everyone!

I would greatly appreciate if you could tell me which is the minimum requisites required for selling pictures as a freelance photographer (for a digital camera, I mean). I have a Canon EOS kiss (10megapixel) and great pictures but, what is the size/quality that is asked from mags/papers, etc.???

Thanks in advance )

[M-i-t-c-h]

Depends on who and where they are going to be.
As a rule of thumb, you will want to submitt JPEG images with a DPi of over 180. If its for poster campaigns then it will need a DPi of prob around 500.

[msol]

Isn't "DPI" the setting of the printer ("Dots Per Inch" or something like that)?

Sorry, could you explain it in sense of size of the image (heightxwidth) or in other terms?

Per example, when would a digital camera be considered "professional" worthy? Does it have to have at least 10 mp?

[marklyon]

Like M-i-t-c-h says it depends on who and where they are going to be. Most magazine's I've submitted to like images to be at 300DPI and as a designer I'm happy with 300DPI. When working on grand format and large format it really depends on the printer some people I've worked with scale things to a file size so that there process time ares reduced - for example a graphic at 7000mm X 3500mm they'll want the image at 300 DPI at 25% of it's final finished size or 90DPI at full size. One tip from a designer is that when you take a shot make sure we can bleed it off the page while still keeping the key parts of the image on the page.

Regarding the question about megapixels I'd say anything above 4 is acceptable although I don't think it matters as long as you can fill a full page of a magazine without a loss of quality.

I hope it helps! Cheers!

[the-baron]

Yes the canon is fine. it's what you point it at that counts.

[jack-laurenson]

i use a nikon D50 with a 70-300mm tele lens or a 17-85 zoom. i find that its a realy nice camera for taking semi proffesional images and i spent a tiny amount of money on all my gear including batteries 2gb sd cards lens's bags and the camera body. about £250 all together.

all the photographs on my website were shot with a nikon d50 jacklaurenson.tk

1 word. EBAY !!!

[Lily White]

Originally Posted by jack-laurenson

i use a nikon D50 with a 70-300mm tele lens or a 17-85 zoom. i find that its a realy nice camera for taking semi proffesional images and i spent a tiny amount of money on all my gear including batteries 2gb sd cards lens's bags and the camera body. about £250 all together.

all the photographs on my website were shot with a nikon d50 jacklaurenson.tk

1 word. EBAY !!!

Thanks hunni thats really helpful. I was toying with the idea of getting a D50 but don't know anyone who has one. Wanted something someone has tried and tested as their is a mine of info out there and alot seems to conflict. Can't go into a shop to shop as it were as i'll get talked into anything shiny . Will check out your site now, thanks again

[Giftcolony]

I've got a D50 and find it a wonderful camera to use, being my first SLR I'm prone to be biased towards it but I really can't see me purchasing another camera for ages. If anything I want to buy some more lenses! The next lense on my list if the 105 nikkor for super macro shots and the sb-800 flash gun.

The D50 makes a great beginners camera without compromising any SLR quality.