A Great Way To Carry Your Equipment

Have you ever looked through camera and equipment bags? Sure they are functional. You can get many styles and sizes, great for many types of shoots.

But most are boring. They come in standard black, and they just blend into the surroundings.

But what if you have a certain style with the way you dress, the way you present yourself, and you’re branding?

I just found jill-e designs, and you’re going to love it.

These bags are anything but boring. Get a variety of sizes, and a variety of colors to match any mood. Plus they have unique features just for us girls. Like a detachable pouch to carry your personal items (I always hated fishing around at the bottom of my bag looking for my lipstick.)

Check out jill.e designs

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How Big Should Your Online Photography Portfolio Be?

I’m willing to bet over 80 percent of all photographers websites have less than 25 images on them.

Why?

Can a prospect truly make a determination of your photography based on 25 images?

We all know that seeing 25 images means you’re seeing the best of the best. Even an amateur can find 25 great images. But being a professional means you can pretty much take a great photograph every time. It means that at a sitting, you only have to delete a handful of images, not every other one.

So why aren’t you showing everything you do at your sittings?

Even in the 90′s, we had over 20,000 images online for people to browse through. Yep, that’s with dial up modems. And the people still came and spent hours going through each one. They loved it! So how do you think we compared to the photographer that put up 25?

A good way to put multiple images onto your site is to use composite images.

Use one as your background image and opaque it in Photoshop. Then lay the others over the top, giving them dimension with shadows and borders. It’s easy to put up 20 or 30 images, all with one jpg. And as long as you make it a small graphic, it’ll have no trouble loading.

Your customers come to you for photographs. Make sure they are seeing everything you have.

Digital Photography Slideshows for use on the web

Create Cool Slideshows from Your Photos
Upload photos from your computer into our interactive drag-and-drop slide show creator. From there, you can build slide shows with smooth pans, zooms, and fades. Create documentary-style slideshows with that famous “Ken Burns Effect”. 

Publish to the Net
You can publish your slideshow on this site, or get code to embed the slide show on your own site. They are in Flash SWF format, so they are small and anyone can see them, even over dialup! There are privacy options so that only your friends and family can see your slide shows.

Publish to Video for DVD or YouTube
With Slideroll Video Creator, you can turn your slideshows into video that you can use for your DVDs, or upload to YouTube. You can even add your own MP3 Soundtrack. With Slideroll™, you can turn those static photos into wonderful stories! Best of all, basic membership is completely free!

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Photography Hosting Service with Elegant Page Designs

A Photography Hosting Service with Elegant Page Designs and Easy Organization Create and customize professional-looking galleries using advanced Web interface. Organize and structure your photographs so that you and your visitors can easily find them and view. From standards-based IPTC tags to full EXIF support your photographs show every detail including captions, titles, file and exposure info, searchable keywords and categories. Zenfolio gives you powerful tools allowing you to be efficient and organized.

Show your photos to the world with the best photo viewing experience online
Visitors will be complimenting you on making it easy and elegant to browse your photos. Zenfolio gives you large images, clean pages, clear navigation, and super fast image loading.

Tracking Digital Photographs

Do you travel? Well, we know that you have lots of digital images. But where are they all from. We located a really cool site – Trippermap – that will show your images in a map form. You can select to use the standard flash map provided or add google earth. Google Earth is by far the best source of geographic information on the web. Combined with the Trippermap Geotagger you can easily add geographic information or “geotags” to your own Flickr photos.