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Tuesday, May 08, 2012Photography: What’s real, what’s not and does it matter?Matt Brandon | 05/08- 07:38 PMIs there such a thing as integrity in a photograph?
I got some flack on Facebook about a past post on my blog . I received a comment from a reader or two stating they felt that what they saw in the produced images was not real. Meaning, after running through my workflow in Lightroom the images no longer represented reality. I have gotten this kind of feedback many times in the past. I think people are rather shocked at seeing a photo “undressed”. It’s a bit like seeing a high-fashion model on the streets without any makeup, it can be scary. more »Friday, April 13, 2012How to make money with really big portraitsSara Frances | 04/13- 05:39 AMYou’ve got another chance at learning Profit Secrets from family portraiture.
Would how to pre-select, serve and provide the right products for our clients in this cost-cutter, amateur wanna-be, do-it-yourself world help your business model for now and ten years from now as well? Family portraiture used to be big business all around. We all know how prices have sunk very low, but there are contemporary answers of how to make a profit. Even in a depressed market, Master Photographer Ken Whitmire details how to succeed - during one of the best (and cheapest) week-long workshops I know. I’ve been at this workshop to hear how Ken details every step toward making good money with boutique specialty portrait photography. more »Sunday, April 08, 20123-part Secret to Perfect Family PortraitsSara Frances | 04/08- 11:10 AMIs this disaster how some of your groups turn out! Great for comedic relief, but generally people want to see traditional smiling faces.
Whether you’re going for just a quick holiday card picture or an extraordinary 4x6 foot wall portrait, you can’t afford to spend huge amounts of time in postproduction. That’s where everybody loses their profit. more »Saturday, March 17, 2012Restoring Portraits from “Cookies”Sara Frances | 03/17- 08:19 AMI was stunned when my client presented me with little encapsulated tintype portraits that looked all the world like Oreo cookies.
These portraits, she recounted, were exchanged between bride and groom sometime near the turn of the 20th century. I’ve never seen this framing shown in any photo history book. But I do know that because tintypes were made with very thin plates, they were creatively cut to fit the covers of albums, or inset into lockets, broches or fans. The “cookie” part looks like plastic, but is actually a precursor to plastic called Bakelite, (pronounced Bay Ka Lite) a material just invented about the time these portraits were made. more »Saturday, February 04, 2012Keyword editing made easierSara Frances | 02/04- 11:54 AMComposition 101 trick simplifies keyword selection and organization
Effective keywording is one of the three most important ways to get your site or post found on the internet - along with title and description. But I’ve always found keywording a disorganized chore. Here’s a way to make the job simpler, quicker and more logical. Remember how in composition 101 class you had to make an outline of topics, content, facts etc.? We used to do this on index cards, one card for each separate fact or topic. We wrote these in no particular order, just as they came to mind or emerged from research. Then we rearranged the stack of cards to create the logical skeleton of the essay. Done this way it was easy to see if there were any gaps in the content or if further rearrangement were needed. I’ve found this analog approach works well for proposing, editing and sequencing keywords.Once you’ve done your research, possibly on Google Adwords, to propose keywords, then you’ll also try to think inside the head of your audience to imagine what they might search on. I always make a big list of potential keywords, even if some seem a bit far out or not fully on target. For something as important as your website, you can never have too many keywords to start the edit process. Don’t forget keywords that speak to business products or services you may not do right now, but are targeted in your business plan. Here’s my system to edit and organize your search keywords. My example is done on a blank file folder, easily preserved for future reference or for colleague comment.
Tuesday, November 01, 2011Designing a Photo Website in WordPress #11Sara Frances | 11/01- 07:23 AMHow to rework keywords and titles for best search engine visibility
After launching a website, what’s your next step? Reworking it of course! Your objective? Matching, tuning and tweaking page titles, descriptions and keywords. more »Saturday, October 15, 2011Designing a Photo Website in WordPress #10Sara Frances | 10/15- 11:50 PMEverybody’s a critic; that’s good and bad.
Here’s the challenge: post your comment listing your own site if you’re proud of it, or any site you love and admire for appearance, navigation and info. Let’s get a discussion going that will provide good comments for how creatives can demonstrate that they really are, well, creative! more »Tuesday, October 11, 2011Is Fear Your Art Director?Matt Brandon | 10/11- 09:59 PMDon’t let your fears call the shots in your photography.
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Sonnet Echo Expresscard Thunderbolt Adapter Review
Testing the only current Thunderbolt CF card reader option
I’m sure by now that you are aware of the Thunderbolt standard and how it has a theoretical throughput that is much faster than Firewire 800, USB 2 or 3 and eSATA. Like many people I excitedly bought one of the newer Macbooks last year when they first featured Thunderbolt ports but sadly Thunderbolt accessories have been relatively thin on the ground. Some blame high licensing fees imposed by Apple and Intel whilst some blame technical difficulties and incompatibilities with the implementation of the technology. I’ve had my Macbook Air for nearly a year now and until the Sonnet Echo arrived on my doorstep I hadn’t plugged a single Thunderbolt product into it.
Photography: What’s real, what’s not and does it matter?
Is there such a thing as integrity in a photograph?
I got some flack on Facebook about a past post on my blog . I received a comment from a reader or two stating they felt that what they saw in the produced images was not real. Meaning, after running through my workflow in Lightroom the images no longer represented reality. I have gotten this kind of feedback many times in the past. I think people are rather shocked at seeing a photo “undressed”. It’s a bit like seeing a high-fashion model on the streets without any makeup, it can be scary.
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