Article: All-digital school portrait studio boosts services and sales: image capture is a breeze, post-production more challenging. (Profile).

When in doubt, underexpose! Sound advice when shooting Kodachrome transparency film, and equally crucial when shooting digital.

For Dean Stewart, owner of Dean Stewart Photography Inc., Melbourne, Fla., an all-digital school portrait studio, those four little words pretty much sum up the learning "curve" for shooting with pro-quality digital cameras.

Lighting no harder with digital

"The lighting problems are pretty much the same as with film," he explains. "There are a few tricks we can use to save an overexposed digital shot, and it's a bit easier than trying to salvage an underexposed color negative.

"Digital cameras, however, also ...

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