photography

Photography has always been fundamental to social media. Let’s take Facebook for a start, where in the beginning your profile picture was everything. But then photographs and social media took on a life of their own – people felt the need to document everything in film. What impact is social media having on the art of photography?[read more]

I have always told my clients that every blog post needs to have at least one image, and I stick to that rule myself. Here are ten benefits to making sure that every time you write a blog post, you include at least one great image.[read more]

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As if your social media marketing plate is not yet full with the day-to-day management of your Facebook page, your Twitter profile and your Google+ account, here comes another rising social network that you need to pay attention to – Pinterest.[read more]

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I’m an avowed Pinsomniac. But while Pinterest is undoubtedly a lot of fun, and a great way to collect wardrobe, home improvement, and decorating ideas, it can definitely be used to advance your personal brand and enhance your job search. Here are six creative ways that you could be using Pinterest to help you get a job.[read more]

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In less than three years, Pinterest has become the third largest social network, with over 10 million users. If you’re interested and engaged with the aesthetic side of marketing, Pinterest can be a huge source of referral traffic, high quality leads, conversions, and repeat sales if approached correctly.[read more]

What is Stipple? It is a service that allows you to embed interactive hotspots into an image to create additional connections directly within the image. Now Stipple supports direct publishing support via Facebook, a feature that has been missing to date. Learn how to unleash the powerful marketing potential that is now possible.[read more]

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Instagram offers a brilliant platform, particularly for brands and marketers. But the network can be ruined in the time it takes to choose a filter by taking away what makes it so cool and clogging it up with self-serving spam. Here are a few insights on how to not make Instagram a brand’s “on-the-go billboard.” Because there IS room for companies, and there are plenty doing it right![read more]

Steve McCurry, a professional photographer and author of several photography books, shares his reasons for why he blogs on WordPress.com. His iconic photo, Afghan Girl, graced the cover of National Geographic and was named one of the 100 Best Pictures of the magazine. McCurry has been recognized with some of the most prestigious...[read more]

Your photo speaks volumes about you: make sure those volumes are filled in with your hopes, aspirations, personality and talent and not the result of a haphazard occurrence that you have been too careless to display. Your quality picture will pay off big: and the more visible you are, the higher the return. So get ready to collect.[read more]

Here is another great transformation of one of my photographs by Mick Mather, artist and blogger. The original is a study of a row of plastic chairs down on the beach at Point Independence Inn, Onset, Massachusetts that appeared in my Art and Photography Blog. Mick takes a photo and does a process of cropping, filtering and layering. I...[read more]

I went to an event of the Cambridge Art Association recently and saw the photographs of Akos Szilvasi. They have a very direct quality. Akos said he often crops off the top of heads to focus more on the eyes and mouth were there is much more information. You see this in the four portraits on his opening page. He talked mostly about...[read more]

Lightroom Workflow: Part 1 of 3 | Layers MagazineIn this 3-part series, photographer Chris Alvanas takes a tour of Lightroom and explains what makes this application a worthwhile addition to your photography workflow. [read more]

Between the two world wars, there was a brief flowering of independence in the parts of central Europe not controlled by Germany or Russia. Then things got real bad for a long time. The time and place provided us with some of the most innovative photography of the last century according to the organizers of Foto: Modernity in Central...[read more]