Challenge your photography knowledge

Do you master your camera well? How good are your technical skills? Just take this Photoanswers Technical Quiz and find out. How much I did? My score was 7/10…

Have a great week-end everybody!

OK…

…I think that the question of the century Would you still visit this blog if it had just one post a month? has been haunting you long enough .

Many thanks for taking the time participating to he poll. To be honest, I thought I would have gathered less than 0 responses. All in all, the results surprised me.

The poll results, as of today, show that for an overwhelming 88% of you a post a month would be ok, while for the remaining 12% it would not.

Thanks to that 88% I’ve decided I’ll keep this blog alive. I’ll try to do my best to post at least one article a month - but who knows, maybe inspiration will hit and there will be more - hopefully.

I also wanted to say how much I’d like to write more in-depth articles on photo techniques and my own way of editing my photos but find it a bit hard and time-consuming due to the fact that English is not my primary language. Again, never say never: I may venture in something more on the tech side, after all (be prepared to some unintentional humor then!).

Enough for now. I must go and mull over my next post …

 

It’s been a month…

…since my last post. I know this is no good. My bunch of readers must have migrated somewhere else (reasonably). I’m beginning to ask myself if it’s worth keeping this blog alive when it seems I haven’t enough time to update it. I really admire you guys out there who can keep up with blog posts and life - really do.

So I thought I’d set up a little poll and see what you think - supposing you are still among the few who visit here.

On the the poll: Would you still visit this blog if it had just one post a month?

Thank you!

Affordable backpacks for you gear

For carrying around my gear I use a Lowepro SlingShot 100AW which I find very easy to use and sturdy. I can fit inside it my Nikon d70 with the standard 18-70 zoom lens, the Sigma 50mm macro, battery charger, a couple filters, hoods, the sb600 flash, and spare batteries. In the future, as my gear will probably expand, I will need a real backpack.

PopPhoto Magazine in this article lists five nice and low-priced backpacks you may find interesting.

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Don’t eat that food! Just shoot at it.

Ever wondered how food photographers achieve those juicy, yummy and inviting shots of hamburgers, ice-creams and so on? Do you shoot food photography yourself and are in need of some useful tips? Photocritic has a series of dirty tricks granted to inspire you and to disgust you at the same time . Simply click here and be prepared for some motor oil instead of syrup…

PS. Wish you a Happy Easter with your beloved ones and with tasty real Easter recipes

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Ways you can make money online with your photography

Are you trying to to earn a few bucks from your photography? This article may be of help to you: it lists 33 ways you can do it. Hopefully you can find the one(s) right for you.

Bootstrapper » 33 Ways an Amateur Photographer Can Make Money Online

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Be careful what you do

Uh-oh! It seems that when participating to certain photo contests you should be very careful and go through the fineprints in their Terms of Use and Contest Rules. If you don’t you run the risk of giving away your rights. Read the full post at Jim Goldstein’s blog and you’ll see this is true not only for photo contests but also for social media like Facebook…

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Protect your digital photos

I always back up my photos. I use two external hard disks for that and I also back them up into DVDs. You may think they are enough. But in life who knows?

Swiss Picture Bank is an online service that promises to back up your photos for 30 years for 3 cents per picture. It seems that when opening an account the first 50 images are backed up for free.

In their own words:

We make multiple copies of every picture, encrypt them and secure them on redundant servers housed in data centers located throughout Switzerland. (…)We back our commitment to security with a payout promise: should we ever lose a picture, we will pay you 30x the value of the credits you spent to save that photo with us.

Sounds interesting? Go have a look. I may as well give it a try.

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Fineart Photography Blog launches today

A New Website Providing Unique Services to the Art-Interested Public, Being a Cross Between Gallery, Photoblog and Search Engine

Starting from today, Brian Auer’s Fineart Photography Blog will be offering to its visitors not only great portfolios from seven talented photographers but also the opportunity for them to sell fine art prints of their works and for you to buy them

So go ahead and learn more about this wonderful initiative starting from this press release. Enjoy!
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A new online photography magazine

AntiDull Online Art Magazine is a new photography magazine which features the works of photographers from all over the world. In the editors’ own words: Our aim is to provide a high quality publishing opportunity to artists and photographers who want to get more exposure to their artistic works.

The first issue has just launched and it features also one of my photos.

If you want to submit your works for publication send an e-mail to this address: antidullmag@yahoo.com . Only requirement if you get published is to put a link to one of their sponsors (art and photography related sites) on your site or blog.

Why not give it a try?

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