In-House Book Review Photos
Two of our magazine projects—the DAR's American Spirit and the Marine Corps League's Semper Fi--regularly include book review sections. Although publishers happily send cover images, we've found that photographing the books adds--as you might expect--a custom look to the page.
While several of us have done this job, lately we've called on designer Ben Stewart to handle the tasks. There are a couple of reasons for this: Ben originally minored in photography at Middle Tennessee State University before switching to graphic design, and his Canon Rebel EOS is ideal for capturing the quality images we need.
We send all kinds of files back and forth to clients and vendors every day -- Word documents, spreadsheets, images, PDFs -- whatever you can imagine! But the need to email photos isn't exclusive to custom media companies. We frequently send and receive electronic files with people who aren't members of a creative profession -- and of course with our friends and families. We've found that outside of the small circle of us who regularly use electronic images in the course of our business, the proliferation of point-and-shoot digital cameras has led to some bad habits as we try to share images. 
Volumes could be - and have been - written about the problems of moving images around the Internet, especially multiple large images and especially if you are not a professional photographer who has set up a Web site with a secure gallery.
