Category: Technique & Workflow
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Dude, Where's my Blog? And other SEO thoughts on photo blogs
A Picture’s Worth says: You probably don’t add images to your portfolio everyday. You probably don’t shoot a wedding every day. And you probably don’t add stock images to your archive every day. In that respect, the “main” part of a photographer website can be fairly static. Blogs, on the other hand, are a great…
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Using Google AdWords Keyword Tool for SEO – A Picture's Worth
PhotoShelter says: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique that helps your website rank higher in searches on Google and the other major search engines. But what searches are you aspiring to rank higher for in the first place? What’s the practical application?
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MooseNewsBlog » Packing da Bag
Moose says: The #8 email I receive is, “How do you pack your camera bag?” Well, here you go, this is how I do it.
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Just an Old-Fashioned Guy – The Digital Journalist
Ron Steinman says: I believe to reach the highest quality possible in a film there must always be another person looking over the shoulder of the person in front of him or her. That way creativity can reach its peak. One person doing everything is counterproductive. If the gatekeeper arrives only at the very end…
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My Photography Workflow 2009
Thomas Hawk says: Since last year though my workflow has changed a bit as I’ve migrated from Adobe’s Bridge software to Adobe’s Lightroom software and thought that I’d post an updated article detailing how I process my images from start to finish. Questions about my workflow are some of the most common questions I’m regularly…
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Toilet Seats, Photography and SEO
Photofocus says: I have been very impressed by the research that PhotoShelter has done on photographer’s websites and SEO. Few if any companies are providing this kind of valuable information for photographers. I asked Allen to write a guest post for us that would get everyone thinking about photography and SEO. Whether or not you…
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Mike G.: Process
From REBEL8: Ever wonder how I make a drawing of a cute tattoo’d girl? Well here’s one way… Check it out here
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Photographer's Toy Box: Wiring Up The Final Four
From Sports Shooter: USA TODAY used Live Ingest to make their tethered transmissions at the Final Four faster and easier. Check it out here.
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Zack Arias – GPP Group Shot = Pressure That Can Make Diamonds
From Zack Arias – Atlanta based editorial music photographer » GPP Group Shot = Pressure That Can Make Diamonds: I wanted to make a picture that was a tribute to some of the photographers in the photo and I wanted to keep with the OneLight theme so I decided I would get everyone in the…
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THE ZEN OF FILM vs. DIGITAL GRATIFICATION « doug menuez 2.0: go fast, don’t crash
From THE ZEN OF FILM vs. DIGITAL GRATIFICATION « doug menuez 2.0: go fast, don’t crash: “Mulling it over, I couldn’t articulate it fully but definitely, I knew I had become lazy, really lazy. A spectacular sloth by the standards of shooting film. Film is hard. Film is a stone cold unforgiving killing bastard. Film…
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Dancing in Dubai | Joe McNally's Blog
So…set the D3 to triple exposure, got Group A and B going to be the bookends flashes, and tested them a bit for exposure control. Check it out here.
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VJ for PJs
Recently, I’ve been shooting a lot more of my interviews with two cameras (three in the studio). There are a few reasons for this – a variety of angles; when you only have a short time with the subject but more importantly the second angle gives you an editing point. Check it out here.
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Should You Worry About Data Rot? – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com
Thinking you’re done because you’ve moved your photos onto a DVD is not a good policy to take; it’s a mistake. And the reason is that the lifespan of DVDs varies from 5 to 100 years, according to testing. And if you leave it on your hard disk, well, hard disks only last five years,…
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The Photographic world of Drew Gardner: THAT tethered set up
This is for all of you who have been asking for part numbers etc of the rather nifty tethered set up I use nearly all the time these days Check it out here.
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The Making of a Seven Gigabyte Eight Foot Wide Print
It was about 11pm, dinner was over, and most people were in the panoramic lounge chatting, working on their laptops, and having a nightcap. A few of us stood on deck watching the passing scene. What lay before us begged for a panorama, so I went to my cabin, retrieved the Phase One 645 camera…