Archive for June, 2009

5 reasons to always use Photo Meta Data

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography
Back in the days of film photographers would use sticky labels to show a transparency or print belonged to them and copyright and contact info. Literally stuck on the slide mount or the reverse of the print. With the advent of digital there was no longer a physical object [...]

Are Photo Awards worth the effort?

photo credit: evelynishere
Reading one of my favourite blogs this morning “A Photo Editor” who references a piece in Advertising Age by Jeff Goodby on the relevance of Awards in advertising. Jeff asks his audience if they are becoming “award-chasers” rather than producing relevant advertising material that can really impact how people think.

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Turned off the Twitter compilation posts

photo credit: spud murphy
Sorry! Was experimenting with having a weekly post of my collated twitter activity show up on the site but I realise this looks awful when delivered to a subscription email or RSS so I’ve turned it off now.
Experiment over!
If you want to follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/photographybiz
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p.s. I’ve also [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

@hashphoto Oh please this is just spam of the highest order – pop ups the lot! #fail in reply to hashphoto #
@erlendaasland I'd not recommend #creativecommons – set "all rights reserved" then YOU have control and make $$ when the photo is used in reply to erlendaasland #
@fzf Because they are shot by professionals [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14

Why pricing #photography by the hour or day is losing you the #photographer money http://tinyurl.com/njepjo #togs #photo #business #
How to price assignment #photography and make money from charging to license your images – Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/l8odtt #togs #photo #
How to price assignment #photography and make money from charging to license your images – [...]