Digital Railroad, a popular service for professional photographers to archive and sell their images, has closed their doors. On October 28th, existing clients who logged onto Digital Railroad were told they had 24 hours to download their photo archive. However, as clients scrambled to download their images from DRR’s servers, their servers crawled to a… Continue reading Photography Industry Shakeup
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Photographers on the campaign trail
We asked one of our clickbooq photographers to tell us what it was like being on the campaign trail. Lonnie C. Major, who shot the cover of the January issue of BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine, describes the three days he followed Senator Barack Obama on the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa in January 2008. “[Senator… Continue reading Photographers on the campaign trail
Wedding Photography Competition
clickbooq is one of the sponsors for WedComp ’08, an international wedding image competition open to all wedding photographers. Leading wedding photographers Susan Stripling, Brooks Whittington, Garrett and Joy Nudd, and David Beckstead are judging the competition. The overall winning image will receive a free annual subscription to clickbooq plus a $1,000 cash prize. WedComp… Continue reading Wedding Photography Competition
Make your images POP! online
When using Adobe Photoshop’s Save for Web feature, you may have noticed a shift in color or a reduction in contrast from your originals. This change is due to the fact that Photoshop is a color-managed application and the Web is not. When you utilize Save for Web, the color profile saved to your image… Continue reading Make your images POP! online
Photographer Print Fulfillment Services
One of the feature requests we’ve been getting is adding a shopping cart or print fulfillment service. Although we are continuing to investigate the best way to provide this feature, we realize it’s no small task to develop a competitive ecommerce solution that matches all the bells and whistles of the shopping cart and print… Continue reading Photographer Print Fulfillment Services
Optimize your website images
Whether they are an art director, photo editor, or a time-pressed bride-to-be, visitors to your site don’t have the luxury or patience to wait for slow-loading portfolios. Bottom-line: if your images take too long to load, your site audience will move on. The easiest way to increase the download speed of your portfolios is to… Continue reading Optimize your website images
Non-portfolio pages for your photography website
While the heart of your professional photographer website will be your portfolios and images within them, you should devote careful consideration to your non-portfolio pages as well. To follow up on the tutorial about creating your Content Pages, I thought it would be helpful to offer a few suggestions for the five pages that come… Continue reading Non-portfolio pages for your photography website
Taking stock of the industry
According to the stock photography survey PDN published in their June 2007 issue, 52% of stock photographers surveyed said their stock incomes have stayed the same or decreased over the last five years. The decline’s beginning can be traced to the internet boom of ’99 when agencies increasingly used royalty-free images due to budget and… Continue reading Taking stock of the industry
Why you need a (new) website
The photography industry is changing rapidly and the successful photographer must change with it. More photographers than ever are shooting digital. And while this provides amazing turnaround time the demand for a streamlined workflow is greater than ever. Digital photography has also lowered the barriers for entry into the industry, making successful marketing tactics essential… Continue reading Why you need a (new) website