A collection of images created over the last 12 months. All taken with a Nikon D40 and post work done in Photoshop. See: www.flickr.com
Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
Wedding Photography Portraits
17
Oct
froknowsphoto.com Please sign up at the link above for your FREE ebook. This week I chose two photos of the the week, both from a recent wedding Greg and I photographed. These images are very similar in nature as they were captured within seconds of each other. This highlights the importance of having two photographers capture a weddings. Each photographer brings a unique style to the wedding day and that leads to more and better quality images. Take a look at the video below to hear more about these images as well as how they were edited.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Best Responsive Photography Themes For Portfolios Anywhere
16
Oct
In the past couple years, Responsive photography themes are becoming more popular than before. In this guest article, not only will you see examples of the best responsive photography themes available, but you will learn why they are useful.
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an approach to web design in which a site is crafted to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones). – Wikipedia
A picture can tell 1000 words, so they say, and when it comes to showing off your photography work, a simple website can really assist in illustrating what you can offer to potential customers.
With this in mind, an online portfolio is an essential part of any photographer’s role, in order to gage new business, and it’s worth remembering that this may be the first impression someone has of you, so you need to make it accessible and memorable.
Before picking your photos for the portfolio though, it’s worth remembering that not everyone views a website on their computer anymore. They may be searching for you on the go on their smartphone, or sat on the couch on a tablet. This is where responsive design can help.
Responsive Photography Themes
Becoming increasingly popular as responsive themes become more widely available, these themes react to whatever platform your site is being viewed on, meaning it looks like a great website, no matter what the screen.
If you’re stumped on where to start, here are a few great examples of WordPress portfolio themes that are responsive, which could be ideal for your photography website.
1. Artboard
This full screen portfolio theme really puts the emphasis back onto imagery. Images overtake the screen to really make your work shine. With drop-down menus and a fully functional blog, this can create a visually stunning basic site if you’re after something heavily image-focused.
2. Expression
This WordPress theme allows for flexible galleries, with quirky animations and effects. The full screen image slider is a particularly great feature for photographer’s portfolios and is a great theme for use on various devices.
3. Photolux
This premium WordPress theme is ideal for both photographers who have no coding knowledge whatsoever, and those who may be a bit more into the development of their site. Using sliders to flip through the portfolio, the site provides ease of use with a simple navigation. A full-height full screen slideshow allows for your work to really do the talking.
4. Evolution
For those who want to more than just a showcase of work, Evolution provides a simple yet effective theme. It allows for a slideshow preview of work upon the homepage, whilst allowing room for background information and the latest blog post too. A great way to give a taster of your collection.
5. Gleam
Gleam is an incredibly sleek and modern theme – an ideal WordPress photography theme for photographers. The theme allows for full background photos, as well as the ability to display your work full screen. Remember, with responsive design this will look great on any device. For a more traditional layout, the standard gallery page uses small thumbnails with popups to view full images. The flexibility is here with all the glamour and simplicity you could want.
6. Reponsy
With a name like Reponsy, it’s no wonder it caught my attention for a responsive photography themes article. A fantastic HTML5 theme which will have all the tools you could possibly want for your site – whether it’s your social buttons, a blog post, or embedding your Flickr images. The clear layout of the theme pages allows for multiple portfolios if you want to section your work off. Clear, yet quirky, Responsy offers the full package.
7. Loook
A minimalistic theme which makes it ideal for responsive design, the highly customisable options alongside the white space of the theme allows for your work to really stand out. Because it is minimalistic, the theme is timeless and will require little monitoring to remain current.
8. JPhotolio
A premium WordPress theme, JPhotolio has an unlimited size of portfolio housed in an elegant and feminine template – ideal for wedding photography. With a great interactive portfolio that can be narrowed down by category, this site has personality already, whilst being customisable enough to add your own. The navigation bar at the top remains no matter where on the site you visit, allowing for excellent simple navigation.
9. Pegasus
A responsive and uncluttered WordPress portfolio theme, this is an incredibly effective theme if you want to show off your work without any distractions. The theme provides a more than adequate portfolio for photography, whilst offering flexible colours and social widget, creating focus on getting in touch.
10. Mixfolio
Mixfolio offer a ‘welcome area’ on your page, so you can automatically tell visitors who you are and how to get in touch, before delving into the imagery. The standard black, grey and white structures make for a simple, yet classic design, allowing for selected photographs on the landing page to relly stand out in contrast.
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Brett Harkness is a successful wedding photographer based in Manchester, UK.
Best Photography Themes Of 2012 To Make Your Portfolio Shine
16
Oct
There are so many photography themes on the market, but not all of them really make your portfolio shine.
Photography Themes of 2012
In this article, you will see a variety of WordPress photography themes with their own styles. Although they’re all very differnt, they have a very important purpose. To show off your portfolio.
Photocrati
Remained at the top as the best there is for a WordPress photo gallery theme.
- Build a beautiful photography website, fast.
- Galleries management system
- Sell images with ecommerce galleries!
- Dozens of styles, customize everything.
- Great SEO and social media so you’ll be found!
Poise
- jQuery driven
- Contact form
- Multiple portfolio styles
Noblesse
- Over 20 page templates
- Built in contact form
- Built in Twitter widget
- Multiple layout arrangements
- 1 and 2 columns theme
PhotoPics
- Uses CSS2 and CSS3
- Contact form
- jQuery Driven
Gleam
- Full Screen
- Elegant Framework
- Shortcodes
Sideways
- PrettyPhoto lightbox gallery
- Fullscreen background images
- Contact form
- Portfolio and Gallery page templates
Pacifico
- Fullscreen
- Video Background
- Contact Form
Project 10
- Gallery
- Audio Player
- Shortcodes
Amplify
- jQuery driven
- 5 different Skins
- Unobtrusive Javascript, Fallback scenarios if Javascript is turned of by the user
- Images for thumbnails and slider are resized and added automatically
Leviathan
- Responsive
- Drag & Drop Module Homepage
- Widgetized Homepage Block, Footer, Sidebars
Shutter
- Responsive
- Contact form
- NextGEN Gallery intergration
- Html5 slider with fallback
- PrettyPhoto lightbox integration
Limitless
- 4 Home page sliders
- 8 Home page styles
- Services page
- Meet Our Team page
- Testimonials page
- 4 Portfolio types (Video portfolio included)
Your Turn
Are you using one of these themes? Comment below with link to your website so we can see.
Top 10 WordPress Photography Themes To Rock Your World
16
Oct
Photographs and images – these are the powerful bullets you can send out into the world to get its attention. But what good are bullets if you do not have the appropriate device to fire them? Simply tossing them won’t do the trick; you will need a formidable gun with the right attributes – WordPress and its amazing selections of photography themes. Check out the following top 10 WordPress photography themes that will rock your world!
1. Photocrati
This theme seems to be the crowd’s favorite, and with its 15 various styles and four home page designs which allow for maximum flexibility minus the need for coding, it is rightly so. Aside from its amazing selections of designs to choose from, Photocrati also comes with its very own e-commerce image galleries. With this theme, displaying AND selling your photos online cannot be any easier!
2. Viewfinder
This timeless theme allows your works of art to take center stage with its classy design. Viewfinder comes in two different styles (light or dark) and offers the option to add countless galleries. With the wide scope of choices, you can set up your online presence as it suits you.
3. Deep Focus
Looking to turn your WordPress blog into a completely operational online image gallery while still upholding all of the characteristics of a normal blog? Then this theme might just be what you are looking for. DeepFocus is a polished portfolio theme that expands on iPhoto, gallery, and other previous gallery themes. With a gallery layout, a blog, and a CMS-style homepage, this could be the answer to the prayers uttered by photographers and artists hoping to wow the online realm with their creative presence. You will also be happy to know that cropping of photos on post pages is no longer necessary, thus, you can make use of landscape and portrait images.
4. Style
The name says it all! This theme, while far from being minimal, gives a clean feel to the overall design with its nicely spaced out elements. Style ingeniously manipulates white and dark spaces combined with elegant typography to give creative individuals a highly clean (yet stylish) web presence.
5. Evolution
Evolution is a totally responsive design and has the extraordinary capability of adapting to different screen sizes. With this theme, which comes in 4 unique layouts, your browsers can admire your site on handy mobile phones and tablets without having to zoom and scroll. The layout of the theme automatically adapts to the smaller screen and dish up your content accordingly. Evolution not only serves the purpose of showcasing your portfolio, it also acts to widen your audience reach.
6. Work
Work can give you a helping hand with building your portfolio through its abundant built-in page templates capable of creating up to four column gallery layouts. Whether you want to showcase illustrations or photographs, this theme can give you a creative boost.
7. Boxed
Boxed is a sophisticated and responsive full background portfolio theme designed to aid you in producing a tasteful theme, which makes use of a distinctive left-sided navigation but still keeps the site in the browser’s center. It gives you the option of choosing a full-screen background image slider to show different images on a page or a normal static image instead. No matter which option you go for, you can never go wrong with the clean and modern design of the Boxed theme.
8. Exposure
Heaps and heaps of exposure is what you will get with this theme. With its tons of features, user-friendly unbranded Options Panel, and superb documentation, showing off your work with Exposure can be a breeze!
9. Picture This
A full screen theme that abides by a minimalistic and unique concept – this is the perfect description of PictureThis. It boasts of a full screen image slideshow, a plethora of color choices, cutting-edge portfolio options, countless sidebars, and 3 custom widgets. With all these fantastic features and pleasing aesthetics, PictureThis is ideal for budding artists out to make a lasting impression.
10. Done
With its highly customizable features and multipurpose benefits, Done can surely cater to several types of business or private portfolios and blogs. You never have to worry about getting the job done with this theme!
There are heaps of WordPress photography themes out there, but you should start with these top 10. Let your needs and preferences guide you, and choose the theme that will set the online world on fire!
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Sunny Popali is SEO Director at http://tempocreative.com, an Arizona Marketing firm specializing in digital and internet marketing services including web design, SEO, social media and strategy.
Photography Tips : Start-Up Costs for Photography
16
Oct
Starting a photography business is complex and difficult because photography technologies are constantly changing and equipment is constantly losing value. Learn about photography start-up costs from a professional photographer in this free video on photography. Expert: Anthony Maddaloni Contact: www.maddaloniphoto.blogspot.com Bio: Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. Filmmaker: Todd Green
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Texture: Weekly Photography Challenge
16
Oct
This week your challenge is to take and share an image with the theme of Texture.
To participate check out our post this week with 8 ideas for creating great Texture shots and pick one of them (or choose one of your own) and get out there looking to capture some interesting textures in your photography in the next few days.
Once you’ve taken and selected the ‘Texture’ image that you’d like to share – upload it to your favourite photo sharing site or blog and either share a link to it or – embed them in the comments using our embed tool to do so.
If you tag your photos on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag them as #DPSTEXTURE to help others find them. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
Also – don’t forget to check out some of the great shots posted in last weeks challenge – Candid Portraits challenge where there were some great shots submitted.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.
Texture: Weekly Photography Challenge
Book Review: The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography
16
Oct
First developed by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer, the Zone System is one of the most enduring methods for understanding – and mastering – exposure. In the fifth edition of his well-regarded book ‘The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography’ Chris Johnson explains why the Zone System, developed as paradigm for film shooters, can also be easily applied in the digital age. Adam Koplan takes a look.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
11 Photography Rules You Should Start Breaking
16
Oct
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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Mastering Concert Photography – Photo Mania EP 1
16
Oct
In this remake of episode one Zack explains how to get awesome shots ata concert. Find Local Indie bands to Photograph: bit.ly
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