By Sylvester Garza

If you’re in business you’ve got to have business cards, right? Well the next thing you should explore is investing in a high-quality portrait or business headshot. Used judiciously, it can provide a professional yet personal feel to most any marketing material.

These days the Internet and social networking allow incredible access to potentially millions of people. Whether it’s Facebook, Linked in or Plaxo, you owe it yourself to use professionally done portraits or business headshots.

The phrase, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression” is so true, don’t sell yourself short by having a friend take a snapshot. That might work for myspace, but not for mainstream business networking and other professional uses.
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One of the most significant  image output enhancement options is often ignored by amateur as well as many professional photographers, – the RAW file format.

Shooting in RAW is perceived as  extra work, more data to store and unnecessary since we all know how to shoot good jpegs . . . right?   We don’t ever make an exposure error or concern ourselves with color temperature.   Hummm.
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I decided to share some websites I felt would be useful.  I hope to be posting my own material soon.  Anyway, check this out:

PhotographyTips.com is for everyone with an interest in photography. It is intended to help beginners get started in photography, and become so good at it that they turn into advanced amateurs. But, accomplished photographers will also find useful tips and hints here. Our primary objective is to help people like you to take better photographs.

Photography Tips, Tricks & Techniques.

When I first started this blog I thought I would post frequently.  Yet, here it is, months later, and this is just my second blog post and probably not a long one either.  As a very busy Houston photographer I spend much of my week away from my studio.  In spite of this, I strive to keep an easygoing style creating an atmosphere of comfort for my clients.

I hope to post again very soon!

Welcome to the official Blog of Houston Photographer Sylvester Garza.

My vision for this Web Log is for it to be a forum of sorts to discuss concerns, issues, new technology, professional development, education, work-flow, photo shop editing tips, Raw file formats,  and any other topics relevant to Professional Digital Photography.

From time to time, i will also post observations from my various photo shoots, as well as photography tips, and training concepts and other ideas that might support  the creation of successful images.

I look forward to your comments . . . SG