Entries in the Photography category:
How to Spot a Great Web Designer from 250,000 miles
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Grover Sanschagrin, co-founder of PhotoShelter recently wrote a helpful blog post outlining things photographers should think about when choosing a web designer. I agree with everything he says, especially the part where he recommends me.
I’m one of eight recommendations, and Grover explains
I’ve created a list of designers (many of them are also photographers) who I feel are worthy of consideration. All of these designers are also experienced with PhotoShelter’s advanced customization capabilities, which means they know how to integrate all of PhotoShelter’s tools into a website or blog.
If you’re a photographer looking for a new site, especially if you’d like it to integrate it with PhotoShelter, I’d love to hear from you. And you don’t just have to take my word that I can help - you can ask Grover.
New site for Photographer Jeff Henig using Wordpress and Photoshelter
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
I’m delighted to announce the launch of our latest website - it’s for Jeff Henig, an American travel photographer based in Japan, who specializes in shooting cultural and religious festivals across Asia. You can check it out at www.jeffhenig.com.
The challenge
When Jeff first contacted me, he had a blog in one location, a Flash-based portfolio online somewhere else, and a Photoshelter site for his stock archive. He was doing a good job keeping them all up to date, but each had a different look and feel, and navigating between them was confusing for visitors.
New site launched for Alan Ross Photography
Friday, August 07, 2009
I’ve just launched a new site for Santa Fe-based landscape photographer, master printer and teacher Alan Ross.
Alan was looking for a site to showcase his great work, his workshops and his tech-related blog. He explains, “ I had very little ability to make updates and changes to my old site, and besides needing a new look, I desperately needed a site that I could manage almost entirely by myself, with no working knowledge of code and HTML, and no special, expensive software.”
Enter Wordpress and Photoshelter. We chose the Crisp Photoshelter theme as the basis for the design, but tweaked a number of elements to create the templates that would work across both the text (Wordpress-driven) and image-heavy (Photoshelter-driven) parts of the site.
Photoshelter showcase my photography site
Friday, March 06, 2009
Photoshelter - the online photo archiving, display and selling site have chosen my Clearing the Vision photography site as one of their examples of customization.
It’s in the Marketing/Promo category on their examples page.
I adapted one of their templates and integrated it with Wordpress to make it easy to update the photo and text sides of the site, while giving it all a consistent look and feel (more details on how I did it in my blog post on Clearing the Vision).
Photoshelter has 40,000 photographers using the service, and they chose around 25 sites as examples, so it’s quite an honour.
A new approach for photographers’ websites - integrating Wordpress and Photoshelter
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
I’ve worked on several photographers’ sites (Chris Felver’s for example), and was always frustrated by the off-the-shelf solutions.
So either I built everything by hand (not so easy for the photographer to update themselves), or I was limited in how many text-based pages (news, blog, profile, articles, whatever) I could include.
But now I have a solution - integrating the Wordpress blogging tool and Photoshelter photographers’ archiving, display and sales service to create a dynamic site that looks consistent and makes it very easy for the photographer to upload and organize images and keep a blog going.
I’ve rebuilt my own photography site - Clearing the Vision - partly as an example of what can be done with this approach, and I’m very happy with the result.
Apple Certified Pro
Monday, June 30, 2008
Last week I went to all4DVD in Orange County south of LA for a 2-day training course in Apple’s Aperture. And when the training was over I took the certification test, and passed. So I’m delighted to say I’m now an Apple Certified Pro Level 1 in Aperture.
The course, taught by Aperture Master Trainer Victor Maldonaldo, was pretty intense - it’s been a long time since I spent 2 days solid doing one thing in front of a computer, let alone trying to absorb all the information and instructions coming at me.
Vote David!
Friday, June 06, 2008
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been chosen as a finalist in the Radio Free Santa Fe/O’Keeffe Museum Landscape Photography of New Mexico contest.
To tie in with the ”Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities” exhibition running at the O’Keeffe at the moment, the contest (open to professionals and amateurs) is for black and white New Mexico landscape photography.
The ten finalists’ pictures (including mine) are currently on display at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex.
Democracy in action
The grand prize winner will be decided by the visitors to the Radio Free Santa Fe site - free registration is required to vote.
So head over to check out the finalists (at least 6 of them are from pro photographers), and if you’d like to vote for my entry, that’d be great.
Annual Manual Success
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Santa Fe Reporter publishes a large glossy Annual Manual around this time of year - giving locals and visitors lots of useful information and insight into Santa Fe.
And this year, they used 2 of my photos in the publication.
They (very cleverly) organized a photo contest asking for shots of real life in Santa Fe, and chose the best ones to illustrate the Manual.
The runners up (like me) get exposure, and the one top winner gets that and a nice prize, too.
Article in print edition of JPG Mag
Monday, December 03, 2007
An article of mine is featured in the latest print edition of the photography magazine, JPG, that’s just arrived in my mailbox.
The article - called ‘Prime Suspect’ - is a hymn of praise to the cheap and cheerful Canon 50mm f/1.8 II lens. They included three of my photographs to accompany the article.
JPG is a high quality print magazine available throughout the US, that has over 100,000 members contributing articles and photographs to its website. Members vote on the things they like, but an editorial panel makes the final print version.
So I’m well chuffed to have made it in. Especially as this combination of photography, journalism and the Web is an area I’m going to explore in more depth in my own big project in the New Year. More on that later, but for now, feel free to rush out and buy a copy of the mag.
‘Signs of the Times’ article for JPG online edition
Friday, October 19, 2007
My latest photo essay for the online edition of JPG Magazine looks what a neglected string of Route 66 motels reveal about Santa Fe and the city’s idea of what its identity might be.
Santa Fe, New Mexico is a schizophrenic place. The city of history and culture enjoyed by its many visitors is very different from the city of high rents and unreliable services experienced by its inhabitants.
The manically-imposed architectural consistency that reigns in the downtown area means swanky new hotels have to be donned in ‘fauxdobe’ clothes to look old. Meanwhile, in the rapidly-growing south end of town, big box store follows generic chain hotel in a sad procession all the way to the freeway.