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  • Largest SEO For Photographers Resource List

    SEO for Photographers is an ongoing process.  In fact, learning SEO for any industry is the same.  We decided to make the journey a little easier by supplying a list of the best resources to learn SEO for photographers.

    If you have suggestions or questions, feel free to comment below.

    What is SEO?

    Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s organic search results. SEO algortithms are changing rapidly.  Effective SEO is when a person enters a keyword in a search engine and your website appears due to optimization of the keyword.

    seo for photographers

    SEO for Photographers List

    This list includes content specific to SEO for photographers, and additional resources to further grow your SEO knowledge.

    • Photography Web Marketing
    • ProBlogger
    • SEO for Photographers & The Photographers SEO Community
    • Scribe SEO
    • Outspoken Media
    • Search Engine Land
    • SEO for Photographers, A Necessary Evil
    • Mozcast
    • WordPress SEO
    • SEO… The Beginning
    • The Ins and Outs of Inbound Links
    • The 3 Essential Steps for Photography SEO
    • Search Engine Round Table
    • 18 Easy SEO Tips
    • SEOMoz Blog
    • Make Google Love Your Photo
    • SEO Gadget
    • SEO Tips
    • Basic SEO
    • John Doherty’s SEO Advice
    • Not Just For Wedding Photographers Anymore
    • Optimizing Images
    • Effective Websites
    • Distilled
    • 5 Keys to Searchable Images
    • SEO & Photo Blogs
    • Search Engine Journal
    • Link Exchanges

    Want to search all of these sites at once?  Use this search box powered by DuckDuckGo.

    As I mentioned above, feel free to comment with links to articles about SEO for photographers that you think belong on this list.

    Thanks for reading

    dslrBlog

  • GoPro Hero Camera and Thunderbolt Kayak


    WSBS Thunderbolt kayak

    September 18, 2012. Another evening with WSBS Thunderbolt-X kayak on the Beaver Pond in Arapaho Bend Natural Area near Fort Collins.

    Thunderbolt provides for me the fastest way to go for a paddling workout – just a few seconds to load a kayak into V-racks on my car. And, in a small pond, I don’t even need to mess up with a sprayskirt.

    I was playing with the GoPro Hero camera mounted on a kayak bow and set up in the interval shooting mode. This time I was using my two suction cup mount based on Sticky Pod.

    Related posts:
    10 Minute Double Suction Cup Camera Mount for a Kayak Deck
    3 Pictures from My Paddling Pond in Fall Colors
    7 Pictures from Fall Paddling in Colorado Featuring Thunderbolt Kayak


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  • Watch This: Jay P. Morgan’s Corporate Portrait Primer

    Commercial photographer Jay P. Morgan’s The Slanted Lens videos (which you may remember from this insane portrait) are consistently good stuff.

    Today, he dials it back a notch or three to give a great walk-thru on corporate portraiture. Solid basic info, plus some tips that you may well not have known. Trust me, the flag-for-light-shirts thing alone will save you much needless Photoshopping…

    -30-


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  • 11 Photography Rules You Should Start Breaking

    If you’re going to break photography rules you should firstly learn them, think them over and practice in creating great photography. Otherwise, there is a risk that your photos will look like ones taken by an awkward photographer. When a creative man starts experimenting, it always means that his mastership is rising high (as long as these experiments are successful). Continue Reading
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  • On Assignment: Shooting what You Can’t See

    As photographers we are always looking for tangible, photographable things to include as visual cues. But often we are called upon to make a photo that revolves around something invisible, or even intangible.

    I tend to view those assignments not as limiting, but rather as assignments in which the physical limits have been removed. That's the case with this shot of Paul Capriolo, CEO of Social Growth Technologies. Read more »


    Strobist

  • A Slide Show of My Festival of Colors Portraits

    Thanks again to Colossal, FStoppers and other sites around the web for publishing these photos as well.


    Thomas Hawk Digital Connection

  • Google Buys Nik Software

    Google Buys Nik Software

    Vic Gundotra announced this morning that Google has purchased Nik Software. Nik makes the popular iPhone app Snapseed and also makes some serious editing tools for Lightroom and Photoshop. I’ve been a big fan of Nik’s Silver Efex Pro and find that it is one of the best software packages for doing black and white conversion work.

    It seems like photo processing is increasingly becoming a desired tool for photo sharing networks. Previously Google had purchased Picnik and has since integrated some of Picnik’s mad skills into the Google Photos experience. After the Google acquisition of Picnik, Yahoo’s Flickr switched from Picnik to Aviary earlier this year for online photo editing. Some of Flickr’s users have complained that Aviary is not as good as Picnik was.

    With the Nik purchase, I’d imagine that even more photo processing tools will be coming to both Google Photos on the web and especially Google Photos on mobile.

    It’s great to see Google continue pushing forward innovation and investment in the photography space. I don’t really use online photo editing tools as I prefer the more powerful and professional editing through Lightroom on my MacBook Pro, but obviously the masses out there do (as Instragram can attest to).

    Facebook owns Instagram (and could theoretically include Instagrammy filters into the broader Facebook photos experience). Google now owns Picnik and Nik. Flickr feels like they are being left out in the cold in terms of online photo editing talent. People don’t seem to like Aviary.

    So what should Flickr do? If I were them I’d seriously look at MacPhun’s FX Photo Studio Pro Software. This is the best super simple drag and drop photo processing application on the market today. MacPhun also has snapheal, which is a pretty interesting content aware photo processing tool that can remove objects from photos as well. Flickr could buy MacPhun and integrate these application based processing tools into an online photo editor and would have a pretty powerful online editor. Rumor is that Marissa Mayer just got a boat load of cash. Of course Google or Facebook could also buy MacPhun and integrate their drag/drop functionality as well.

    Although for us photo geeks the big news story today is the Nik purchase, within his announcement post Vic Gundotra probably buried the real lead, which is that Google+ now has over 400 million members. Wow! 400 million! Amazing growth and congratulations to the Google+ team!


    Thomas Hawk Digital Connection

  • WordPress Gallery Plugins – The Best Of The Best

    There are many WordPress gallery plugins on in the WordPress plugin directory. Some are simple plugins with minimal features and some have a wide range of options. Some WordPress gallery plugins use the built-in media control, some use custom post types and some have their own proprietary system.

    WordPress Gallery Plugins Top 5

    Below we are going to share what we believe are the best of the best, the cream of the crop. Not only from they’re functionality, but by the statics behind it. (stats as of September, 2012)

    NextGEN Gallery

    wordpress gallery plugins

    Without a doubt the most popular WordPress gallery plugin, NextGEN Gallery has been proven over time. NextGEN Gallery is a fully integrated image gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features.

    Requires: 3.4 or higher
    Compatible up to:     3.4.2
    Last Updated:     2012-8-21
    Downloads:     5,835,825

    Portfolio Slideshow

    portfolio-slideshow
    Easily add a clean, responsive javascript slideshow to your site. The slideshow integrates well into any design and supports fluid-width themes.

    Requires: 3.0 or higher
    Compatible up to: 3.4.2
    Last Updated: 2012-9-19
    Downloads: 214,322

    Lightbox Plus

    lightbox-plus
    Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images, simple slide shows, videos and content all in an overlay.

    Requires: 3.0 or higher
    Compatible up to: 3.3.2
    Last Updated: 2012-1-1
    Downloads: 554,718

    Gallery

    gallery
    This plugin allows you to implement gallery page into your website.
    Requires: 3.0 or higher
    Compatible up to: 3.4.2
    Last Updated: 2012-7-27
    Downloads: 159,663

    Shutter

    shutter
    A WordPress Plugin Specifically for Photographers.

    Requires: 3.4 or higher
    Compatible up to: 3.4.2
    Last Updated: 2012-8-5
    Downloads: 4,548

    Conclusion

    Each of these plugins would be great choices for your WordPress photography website. However, one clearly is the most trusted over the rest. NextGEN Gallery is soon going to hit 6 million downloads, which is pretty crazy for a WordPress gallery plugin. In addition, many WordPress portfolio themes are supporting the plugin with integration and styling.

    There are also many WordPress photography themes with built-in gallery control, if you decided to not use a plugin.

    What WordPress gallery plugin do you use on your website and why?

    Thanks for reading

    dslrBlog

  • BTS: Jonathan Snyder’s So-Cool-It-Must-Be-Fake Night Portrait

    When this photo popped up on Gizmodo last week, several of the site's readers could not quite process how the image could have been made. I tweeted at the time that I hoped the guy who shot it was one of our old DINFOS lighting students.

    As it turns out, Strobist reader and USAF SSgt. Jonathan Snyder attended the "one extra" Flash Bus day McNally and I did for the Defense Information School in 2011 at Fort Meade in Maryland.

    Milphogs are taught to improvise in the field as a matter of course. And turns out, this image was made with neither a tripod nor a speedlight… Read more »


    Strobist

  • The 16 Most Photogenic Everyday Objects

    This post is written by James Maher – author of The Essentials of Street Photography – an eBook currently onsale at SnapnDeals (25% off).

    You know how some people are just photogenic.  No matter what the lighting is or if they are all sweaty from the gym, they are still going to look damn good.

    Well the same goes for certain objects and structures.  I am such a sucker for things like water towers, lampposts, and fire escapes, and so I thought I would create a list of my 16 favorite things to include in photographs.  These objects won’t always make a photo, but when included they will almost always make the scene more photogenic.

    What are yours?

    1. Cigarettes

    Bad for your health, great for your photos.

    Jerry Delakas

    2.  Colorful shoes.

    Especially when contrasted with dirty backgrounds.

    Polka Dots and Pink Shoes, Subway.

    3.  Old Patterned Walls and Wallpaper

    An easy way to add an element of pattern and design into your photograph.

    Razed Building

    4.  Glowing Screens

    It’s a good thing those glowing cellphone and iPad screens look good in photos, because unfortunately they are becoming hard to avoid these days.

    25 People, 21 Screens

    5.  Tunnels

    The old frame within a frame.

    Couple in Snowstorm, Central Park.

    6.  Umbrellas

    Particularly the translucent and colorful kind when lit from behind.

    Green Umbrella

    7.  Ladders and Fire Escapes

    Turn them on their side and to an angle to create an illusion.

    Escher Fire Escape

    8.  Water Towers

    Even better when you tint them and add some colorful frames.

    Colored Water Towers

    9.  Fire Hydrants

    Gowanus Fire Hydrant

    10. Advertisements that mimic or contrast with real life.

    The Road to a Bright Future

    11.  Glowing Lampposts

    My favorite.

    Glowing Lamppost

    12.  Phonebooths

    Quickly becoming antiquated.  Catch them before they all disappear.

    Two Generatins, Phonebooth and iPad

    13. Phone Lines

    Especially when they are in the middle of nowhere.

    Telephone Pole

    14.  Old Doors.

    Old Door

    15.  Windows with Silhouettes.

    Greek Protests

    16.  Wet Cobblestone

    Textures of Greece

    Learn more about Street Photography in James Maher’s eBook The Essentials of Street Photography (currently 25% off at SnapnDeals).

    Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

    Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.

    The 16 Most Photogenic Everyday Objects



    Digital Photography School