portfolio prints tend to get manhandled and seen under less than ideal conditions, so luster or mat is best to reduce reflections and fingerprints.

go for luster or matte..
as for where, I do all my portfolio shots on epson printers....

if the lens is on 'a' setting and your setting the aperture on the body or in one of the automattic modes it should work.
the aperture ring, off the 'a' modes should turn easily and click into the f stops nicely. if it feels weird turning, send it back. if turns properly, try cleaning the contacts... (quick rub with a pencil earaser, and swab it with a q-tip moistened with wd-40 or alcohol...

helpful getting the first gut reaction... I forgot there was a little on camera flash, but the ambient was too bright to get any red eye as I was hoping for...

here is a raw image from camera:


and the same file with raw conersion set to correct the gelled flash and increase contrast and deepen highlights:



then it goes into photoshop for makeup and post...

this image is to be the last part of the vampre transition...

Well it is an experimental project just for fun. She's not smiling cause I told her not to.

the theme of the shoot is a young lady wandering through a cemetary at night not realizing she's becoming a new vampire...

all shot during the day and with no makeup.
ethereal glow and make up done in post.

day for night effect started in camera with a single gelled flash in umbrella and custom whitebalance to achieve a blue sky.

perhaps seeing the originals, and a few in order from the set will put it in context... but even when telling a story, each individual image has to hold it's own, her as a vampire is in another thread, on this forum..link

open to c&c


also

One thing I hate about 0ct 31st is everywhere I go I see women dressed up as my ex-wife...
scary.

Stop doing that... if you're shooting jpegs and your laptop is recompressing the files everytime you open them, you're losing image quality! big time!

your computer must've altered the file when you opened it and closed it.
the camera won't display any images unless it shot them, but an image that has been altered (even just opening and re-saving a jpeg does change the file) will get treated like a foreign file.
next time copy the files off the card, then open the copies if you want the originals to display in camera...