Unprinted colour photo titled Foundation (redux) depicting barnacle encrusted pylons penetrating the salt waters of Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island. Photographed on Fuji Reala 100 with Plaubel Veriwide 100 (6×10), 47mm f/8 Schneider Super-angulon lens @ f/11 60sec.
I read an interesting article on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) related by Donncha O Caoimh by way of PhotographyVoter.com over at InPhotos.org on 11 SEO tips for your photoblog which was an expansion of Richard Hearnes article on SEO For Thin Content Sites – Making A P h o t o B l o g More Visible–Whew!
Anyway, it got me to thinking about the amount of time and effort that is required to undertake all of this techno-bridge building in the blogsphere so to speak. I wonder that with the limited time that we have as part-time and hobby publishers that perhaps our time would be better spent writing more meaningful content rather than worrying about SEO. So following on from Donncha O Caoimh’s good advice here are a few of my own tips on getting your self noticed.
This instructable shows you the easy, inexpensive, and quick way to create a light box that can get you the same photographic results as a 150 dollar light box. The only difference is that this one can ultimately be built for under 10 dollars. Read more at:
Niall Benvie over at Open Democracy talks about the commercial and professional pressures that have reduced nature photography to a tedium of airless familiarity. Niall believes that the practice desperately needs a wider and more truthful depiction of its subject not just an evolution of style, but of fresh things to say. Read more at:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/theme_9-landscape/article_418.jsp
Every photographer, for that matter every creative, I’ve ever met comes to a point when they’re not happy with the work they’re producing.
You won’t be seeing one of these sensors in your fashioncam any time soon. Canon has built a 50 megapixel CMOS monstrosity, which is reportedly almost twice the resolution of its nearest competition, and is prepping it as a sort of large format surveillance camera for monitoring large, busy areas such as parking lots and theme parks, along with detailed work like factory part inspections.
Don’t get me wrong… I still love the Penguin ( for now, Solaris 10 / ZFS review coming up ) but the penguin just doesn’t like my photography work.
My requirements were not very high. I shoot with a dSLR and capture RAW images. I want to download, sort, re-develop, and post process my images with a small amount of effort. Under windows I had been using Picasa with much success. I don’t think these requirements are too much to ask for.
I’d been using Mario Westphal’s excellent Imatch Image Management software for my digital image management on windows since early 2003. Some months ago I decided I no longer wanted to use Microsoft Windows as my operating system and environment but ultimately had to resign myself to having to run my must have Imatch software in VMware. It worked quite well but it irked me having to still be tied to Microsoft Windows.
After some initial false starts trying to install and run Imatch on earlier versions of Ubuntu up to and including Edgy Eft (6.10) I decided to have another try after upgrading to Feisty Fawn a week or so ago. Talk about easy 
Do you plan your photographs or just let them happen? The concept of travel photography and what it really means to Christopher Scholl. For Christopher the very process of photography is a journey. With every turn of our head toward something interesting, with every choice we make between aperture and shutter, with every click of that button, we are on a journey toward discovery.
Rainy days and Mondays always get me excited. Well, okay, maybe just rainy days. Rain can be a wonderful gift for a photographer looking to make moody images. But rain photos are also logistically tricky. Here are a few ideas to help make the most out of a rainy situation. Read Christopher Scholl’s 10 great tips for shooting better photographs in the rain.
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