Category: Technique & Workflow
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How to Turbocharge Your Photography Workflow | PetaPixel
How to Turbocharge Your Photography Workflow I recently heard a photographer say he’d spent 17 hours going through 10,000 images, deciding which ones were worth saving. My first thought was, “I hope via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/25/how-to-turbocharge-your-photography-workflow/ I recently heard a photographer say he’d spent 17 hours going through 10,000 images, deciding which ones were worth saving.…
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WATCH: Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Essdras M. Suarez Shares What Makes a Great Photo – PhotoShelter Blog
WATCH: Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Essdras M. Suarez Shares What Makes a Great Photo – PhotoShelter Blog In the photo industry, portfolio reviews are a great opportunity to receive objective feedback about your work. Oftentimes a mentor will offer to look through your photos and provide actionable advice about editing your images. For two-time Pulitzer…
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AI and the Battle for the Future of Photo Editing
AI and the Battle for the Future of Photo Editing For photographers, AI photo editing is no longer a fringe topic for ML researchers or a gimmick employed by smartphone apps. With the impending release of via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/11/12/ai-and-the-battle-for-the-future-of-photo-editing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 For photographers, AI photo editing is no longer a fringe topic for ML researchers or a…
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New Guide! The Photographer’s Guide to SEO – PhotoShelter Blog
New Guide! The Photographer’s Guide to SEO – PhotoShelter Blog Search engines are a vital source of traffic and bring much-needed exposure for photographers. And just like camera gear or photo tech, they’re always evolving. So how do you keep up with algorithms that are constantly getting smarter? What steps can you via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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WATCH: Demystifying SEO – Best Practices for Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog
WATCH: Demystifying SEO – Best Practices for Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog PhotoShelter shares SEO best practices for photographers, including metadata tips and the Google Image License Metadata program (currently in beta). via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/07/seo-best-practices-for-photographers/ Search engine optimization (SEO) for your photography website is more important than ever. If you’re feeling overwhelmed with the work…
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7 Tips for Better Black and White Street Photography
7 Tips for Better Black and White Street Photography COOPH recently got together with London-based street photographer and co-founder of Street Photography Internationa Alan Schaller to talk about one of the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/07/7-tips-for-better-black-and-white-street-photography/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 COOPH recently got together with London-based street photographer and co-founder of Street Photography Internationa Alan Schaller to talk about one of…
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Chase Jarvis Blog: Chase Jarvis TECH: Shooting Sequences
Shooting Sequences | Chase Jarvis TECH | ChaseJarvis Watch as award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis spells out all the steps of a commercial photo shoot from concept and contracts to delivery of final images…. via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/OniB0L2-U6M&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 The words came to Ernesto Bazan as he stirred awake one morning in Palermo. “You need become a photographer.”…
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Shooting China’s 60th anniversary parade with the 7D, 5DmkII and Nikon D700
Link: The challenge was to come up with something different with so many different Chinese and international media covering the event from every angle. After waiting half the previous night for a pass and then catching only 3 hours sleep in the press centre lobby, I got put on a stand with a hundred odd…
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Chase Jarvis Blog: My "Trade Secrets"
Link: A couple months ago, I was approached by blog reader and founder of a company called Trade Secret Cards, Zeke Kamm. He had a business proposition: He’d come to Seattle, pick my brain about various different pictures in my portfolio and then he’d put together a pack of 22 glossy, high-end cards that illustrate…
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Hidden Dangers of New Technologies « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Link: I’ve been debating a bit on whether or not to post this one – but I think it’s necessary – so here goes: New technology is great. It allows us to do things we previously thought impossible. It empowers us to “push the envelope” if you will. That being said, one of my favorite…
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Using the dpBestflow Website at Strictly Business
Link: We’ve packed quite a bit of information in the website, so we thought we’d make a movie to show you how to navigate. We suggest you spend a few minutes looking over the video before you dive in.
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VJ for PJs: Tips For DSLR Video Workflow
Link: With the introduction of video-capable DSLRs from Nikon and Canon, a new workflow was needed to handle the files coming out of these cameras. Editing Nikon’s MotionJPEG and Canon’s H.264 files straight out of the camera is doable, but not advised. The highly compressed files will tax your processor as it has to decompress…
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Is managing your own image archive worth the work? | RESOLVE
Link: I signed up with my very first company that offered an “archive hosting” service five years ago. At that time, my idea of what that meant was vague at best. Would they sell my pictures or just provide storage and display? Would the web system be user friendly? Would I need to buy a…
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Ami Vitale – Tools for the Freelancer
Link: The changes in our business over the past few years are truly hard to comprehend. I am sympathetic to the difficulties for so many in our business as newspapers and magazines close, jobs are lost, and people struggle to see where the business of journalism is headed. While I read all the epithets, I…
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How do you sequence photos? – Mike Davis
Link: It’s one thing to pick your strongest pictures. It’s another to sequence them. The two actions are either side of a coin. If both aren’t done well the result sucks. Ok. Maybe it doesn’t suck, but the result won’t be what it could be if you pick lesser pictures or don’t put them in…
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Scanning Old Photos with ScanCafe – A Picture's Worth
Link: It’s hard to believe but my 20th high school reunion is only a few months away. I was an avid photographer starting in junior high, and in fact, sitting on one of my bookshelves is a bunch of albums filled with pictures from the 1980s — literally, a veritable hot tub time machine.
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10 New Things To Do With Your PhotoShelter Website – A Picture's Worth
Link: It’s been two weeks since we announced the release of significant new PhotoShelter features that included many user-suggested improvements in usability. One such feature is the addition of 2 new (empty) website pages to use however you want. Having the flexibility to customize 2 more pages is a really powerful addition to a PhotoShelter…
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Rolling with Sports Illustrated during the NBA Finals « Sports Shooter
Link: Nobody covers the NBA Finals like Sports Illustrated. Two photographers, three assistants, hundreds of pounds of gear and hundreds of man-hours in set up and travel time. Shawn Cullen and Jordan Murph (along with Kevin Liles) worked tirelessly setting up remotes and helping SI staffers John McDonough and Bob Rosato with their coverage.
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PHOTOSHELTER'S NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN + 22 OTHER GREAT ADD-ONS FOR PHOTO BLOGS – A Picture's Worth
Link: Last week the official PhotoShelter WordPress plugin was born – a free, public download that allows PhotoShelter users to streamline their blogging workflow by embedding photos and slideshows directly into the body of a blog post without leaving WordPress. Here’s a rundown of the main features of the plugin, plus a short review of…