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Social Media is crucially important to every working freelance. In this month’s Special Feature, Social Media Uncovered, we reveal working pros approaches and the ways they boost their businesses through it, to reach the widest potential audience. In The f2 Profile we feature top advertising and portrait freelance Seamus Ryan, who manages that sometimes tricky business of successfully balancing a commercial and editorial career as well as retaining a social photographic practice. Food freelance Lauren Mclean is Turning Pro and she discusses her plans to conquer the king of food clients – Marks and Spencer. In The Business Section we showcase top Asian wedding specialist Simeon Quarrie, who talks about his unique, highest production values, narrative style, and the challenges he faces stepping out into the commercial world. Auto-specialist George Williams has high profile clients such as Toyota, McLaren and Top Gear magazine; and he’s not yet 21. We talk to him about his unique style, and the road to achieving success so young. In Second Shooters, Employees and the Law, insurance expert Nik Stewart talks to David Land about the importance of correct insurance when employing a second shooter, and what constitutes an employee in the eyes of the law. In The Technical Section, Kevin Carter compares Nikon’s D7100 with the D7000 and the D300, and asks is this the future for DX cameras? Meanwhile, Adam Woolfitt takes a first look at the new beta for Adobe Lightroom 5.