Category: Technique & Workflow

  • PHOTOSHELTER'S NEW WORDPRESS PLUGIN + 22 OTHER GREAT ADD-ONS FOR PHOTO BLOGS – A Picture's Worth

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    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 how I use the plugin to save lots of time and improve my SEO.

  • PDN – Can These Web Sites be Saved?

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    When we offered PDN subscribers a chance to get free critiques of their web sites by two web design experts and a client, we were inundated with submissions. We chose three that were reviewed by our panel for evaluation.

  • 2010 SEO Cookbook for Photographers – A Picture's Worth

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    We’re very pleased to present the 2010 SEO Cookbook for Photographers with newly updated information, profiles of photographers who have succeeded with SEO, and a handy dandy checklist to make sure you’re getting the most from SEO. We’ve expanded sections that discuss sitemaps and talk pretty extensively about enlarging your online footprint to increase SEO.

  • In Search Of The Ultimate Inkjet Print

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    The important thing to remember, is that if you want to obtain the highest possible quality inkjet prints, you need to experiment beyond just setting the printer to the standard settings.

  • Magnum Photos' tagging game – British Journal of Photography

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    Magnum Photos has opened up its enormous archive of images to a wider client base using the very latest keywording technology. Philip Wolmuth speaks to the agency

  • How 4 Successful Photographers Sell Their Prints – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter

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    We do a variety of educational webinars each month, and last week we did a special one that will be of interest to anyone who is, or wants to be, selling prints. Allen digs deep into the print sales tactics of several very different photographers – showing that although they may do things differently, each are finding success in selling prints.

  • How to Sell Prints – A new, free guide from PhotoShelter

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    Our new guide is aimed at people who want to sell photos. Entitled “How to Sell Prints,” it’s a free 44-page guide that will walk you through different aspects of selling prints from product selection to pricing to fulfillment.

  • A Few Thoughts on Black & White Conversion… Past and Present

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    As I was working through scripting for the Black & White segment of my new Adobe Camera Raw series, it just kept getting longer, and longer and longer. Which, uhhhh…. might be a problem. But as I dug into it, it also just kept getting more and more interesting! So I decided to spin it out, and turn it into a separate, and completely free tutorial.

  • Rich Clarkson: Life behind the lens | Plog

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    For seven decades Rich Clarkson has had a front row seat to sporting history and through his eyes–or more precisely, through his camera lens–he has shaped the way the rest of us remember many of the game’s greatest moments. Clarkson has photographed all the greats. His photos have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 33 times, on the pages of Time and Life magazines, and as the cover art of countless books. Here Clarkson shows some of his favorite images and tells the story behind each one.

  • 5 Simple Things You Can Do to Make Your Web Images Pop

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    What’s the secret to making your website images look like visually vibrant eye-candy for your visitors? When preparing images for your online portfolio, it’s important to ensure that the images look their absolute best. Short of hiring a professional retouching expert, what can photographer do to improve the look of their images when they hit the web?

  • SEO For Photographers: A Presentation

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    If you couldn’t make it to his live presentation in St. Louis or if you just said to yourself, “What the heck is SEO?” (we just cringed by the way), then check out the slideshow below for an excellent introduction to and review of SEO for photographers – tips and tricks for getting your website found by Google.

  • Lucas Gilman On Nik’s Color Effex Pro

    Lucas Gilman On Nik’s Color Effex Pro

    This is the debut of a new column where we talk to pros about their equipment and techniques. by Grayson Schaffer Last week, San Diego–based Nik Software released the fourth version of Color Effex …

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    Nik Software released the fourth version of Color Effex Pro, their popular Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture plugin. Like Photoshop actions, CEP4 allows photographers to quickly combine multiple small adjustments into different treatments or filters. But unlike actions, and even its own previous versions, CEP4 has a stand-alone user interface that makes adding and blending multiple enhancements fast, easy, and intuitive. We spoke with Denver-based adventure sports photographer Lucas Gilman, one of Nik’s beta testers on CEP4, to find out how it integrates into his workflow.

  • Editing Your Portfolio

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    I’m currently in the process of updating and printing a new portfolio and I thought I would take a moment half day to talk about the process.

    My dear friend, Marc, has said of editing, “It’s like lining up your children and deciding which ones you’re going to shoot.” That quote isn’t going to end up on the front of a greeting card anytime soon but it does get to the heart of the matter. Andy Lee rephrased it to, “…deciding which ones you love more.” Either way, the process can suck but it is a process you need to go through on a regular basis. At least twice a year. Minimum.

  • Designing a Better Portfolio Website: Part 3

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    Combining strong photojournalism with strong graphic design is a win-win. In the crowded and competitive photojournalism marketplace, it behooves you to make every part of your online presence look thoughtful and professional.

  • Post-processing in the digital age: Photojournalists and 10b Photography

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    10b Photography has established itself as one of the world’s leading digital darkrooms, handling post-production for scores of award-winning photojournalists who trust that the company knows where to draw the line between processing and manipulation. Olivier Laurent meets the founders.

  • Photo Business Plan Workbook Videos: #5 Build Your SEO

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    SEO for photographers is no joke – if you aren’t employing the most basic SEO strategies (at least), then you’re selling yourself and your photo business short. The goal of SEO is unsolicited website traffic – people looking for whatever your service or product is, without yet knowing who you are. In section #5 Build Your SEO, Allen talks about three main areas that all photographers can focus on immediately to improve their website’s SEO.

  • Mob Wives – Behind the Scenes

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    Got a call from VH1 to do a very large scale, two-day production for Mob Wives Season 2. They wanted a very decadent, over-the-top image that represented the countdown to midnight, as well as the new season, which started on New Years Day. The idea was that this image was taken moments before the main cast members engaged in an all-out brawl. We knew this would be a very complicated shot due to the sheer number of people involved, the restrictions of the location, and the limitations surrounding the main cast. For instance, the main women could not all be in the room at the same time. Since they are on a reality show, if there was any interaction between them, it needed to be recorded by the TV cameras. So we had to photograph them separately and then stitch them together along with all the other pieces that would be involved in this composite.

  • A North Korean Photoshop tutorial

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  • How to make a photobook

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    My headline is slight disingenuous: There actually is no simple recipe for photobook making. If you asked ten people about how to make a photobook, you’d probably end up with ten different answers. That said, from what I can tell, most photobook makers seem to agree on quite a few things. So I thought I’d throw my own thoughts into the mix. I hope that some people might find them useful

  • Setting up your Canon 5D mkII (and mkIII?)

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    The 5D MKII came out nearly 4 years ago – but this is still one of the single most common questions I get to this day as new people are continually entering the HDSLR world.  I also find that many professionals aren’t aware of many of these settings themselves and I thought: “Better late than never.”    So here are the settings that I have used with the Canon 5D MKII – and a comparison between the standard picture profile, the profile I recommend, and the Technicolor profile with some examples on grading