Well, I took this PC to the Geek Squad and they plugged it in and it worked!!! That was easy...oops wrong store. I'm just trying to nurse this computer through until I get a new one at the end of the month. I just had my iBook computer looked at tonight. Basically, the start up disk is full. So I deleted 10,000 pictures so that should help. I'm told what I can do is transfer everything from the iBook over to the new computer, erase the old computer put on the latest operating system and it will be a new updated computer.
I did really well taking photos for the high school play. It was a bit of a risk. It wasn't a musical and I only had one night to sell photos. But I did well and sold over half of the photos I had printed up. As someone who was one of the first all online photographers back in 2000, I can tell you one thing, when it comes to selling pictures...online stinks. All those years of putting pictures online and I think the most business I ever did for one show was $500. Now that I've gone "old school" and print everything up, I do a lot better. When I do a play, I only have at most one hour and 20 minutes to sell my photos. We are talking 30 minutes before the show, 20 minutes for intermission and 30 minutes after the show. Not a lot of time. I've got to have the photos so they can pay their money, grab and go.
I have attempted once to print photos on site and it was a bust. The problem you have with that it is a technological nightmare. You have to have computer monitors as viewing station and you never have enough of them. Plus, I don't care how fast of a printer you have, people still have to wait to get their photos. I've noticed even the big event photography companies don't bother printing on site. They may have 40 monitors but they take orders and mail out the photos. I love photographing my shows. If I could pick what I do for a living, this would be it.
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