Digital Sports Photography: Take Winning Shots Every Time

Chapter 9. Creating a Digital Studio

© Amber Palmer

When it comes to sports photography, most of what you'll be shooting won't require a physical studio space All types of digital sports photographers are, by-and-large, field photographers who go on-location, gather their images, and then return to a studio used exclusively for post-pixel, purely digital photography work.

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For more about workflow for studio photography, you can refer to Total Digital Photography: The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook, also from Wiley, for more information.

Although setting up a digital studio may not necessarily be the most inexpensive pastime or semi-profession, the digital world has many advantages over the days of film In the past, having a darkroom meant taking over the garage, a bathroom, or the basement where there was running water and a way to dispose of waste chemicals Furthermore, for anyone doing even a part-time business as a film photographer, many state governments require different classifications, disposal methods, and tax categories based on the photography studio having to process chemicals that are potentially environmentally hazardous.

Today's digital workspace hardly resembles the days of film studios There are no enlargers, baths of chemicals, or darkroom A very simple digital studio may include a single desktop computer and monitor with an Internet connection and a simple image-editing ...