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I’m happy to continue our series of tutorials on creating your favorite Instagram filters in Photoshop. Before going to the tutorial, I’d like to share with you a few interesting facts about Instagram that you probably don’t know!
Did you know that New York City is the most geotagged place on Instagram? Or that the most Instagram users are located in the United States, Brazil and Japan?
… Continue reading How to Make Instagram Filters in Photoshop: Sierra & Brannan
Being a pro, full-time photographer takes courage. You should be pushing yourself out of your comfort zone all the time and do some new things. First things first: Becoming a full-time photographer means that you need to start a photography business.
You should try new photography genres you never tried before. You should take photos at new locations. You should communicate with new people every day and try to reach an understanding. You should be an accountant, promoter, writer, planner, businessman, and, moreover, learn brand new skills. In a word, you should be taking a lot of challenges constantly. You need to do all these things to improve your photography and make money for a living with a job you really like.
Steve Jobs forever will be remembered as a digital visionary – he was the one who brought poetry to the microchip. He is a legend these days. All of us can’t be Steve Jobs, but we can learn some lessons from his extraordinary life and career to parlay them into the photography business.
Steve Jobs took a near-bankrupt Apple and turned it into one of the most profitable and successful companies in the world.
… Continue reading 10 Lessons From Steve Jobs for Your Photography Brand
We all love the web for its ability to let you communicate with other people in various ways. That’s why Instagram’s so famous today. It’s our way to share visual stories of our lives with people around us. Instagram’s so popular not just because of the sharing option, but because of a set of gorgeous filters you can apply to your images before uploading.
I have already covered here how to create Amaro and Mayfair Instagram filters in Photoshop.
… Continue reading How to Make Instagram Filters in Photoshop: Nashville & 1997
You probably know that a picture is worth a thousand words. If a reader has a choice between 1000-word articles and the infographic that needs just a few scroll downs…he’ll obviously go with the infographic!
Visual information is more likely read and understood than other types of data presentation. That’s why I collected helpful infographics and cheat sheets on photography for you.
With over 100 million users worldwide on both iOS and Android devices, Instagram’s success as a mobile platform and social network is clear to see. These days, it has an expanded web presence, so there are more opportunities than ever to show off your photography skills. Instagram’s 20 filters that fit a handy app are a great playground for photographers to have fun with their images.
If you want to create high-quality, post-edited images, you should use some editing software for it, not a mobile app. For instance, you can use Photoshop to recreate some Instagram filters.
… Continue reading How to Make Instagram Filters in Photoshop: Amaro & Mayfair
Pursuing a career doing something you really love could be a terrifying thing, so people often look at the ones who already “made it” in their field as a source of inspiration. Having a chance to hear famous photographers talk about how exactly they made it and what it costs to be a successful photographer inspires us to work harder and learn more.
All of these photographers have had a long way to success, including a painful change from being an amateur to a full-time professional photographer.
… Continue reading 15 Influential Photographers Share Their Quotes for Inspiration
Landscape and travel photography are closely intertwined with each other. Travel photography, as many sub-genres of art and photography are, is largely undefined and encompasses a wide range of people, locations, cultures and ideas, including landscape photography.
Such kinds of photos express the feeling of time and place, its mood and atmosphere without geographic limitations.
… Continue reading 33 Inspiring Websites of Landscape & Travel Photographers
Your portfolio website could be the most beautiful, functional and user-friendly site in the world, but if no one ever sees it, then what’s the point? If no one visits your precious site, it wouldn’t do you any good. So you have to make search engine giants like Google, Yahoo or Bing notice you and send loads of targeted traffic to your site. To make it work out, you should take care of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
I know this word may sound scary and complicated for many artistic types, like photographers. But if you want to give your photography business the boost it needs, you should have at least basic knowledge of SEO and put a little effort into optimizing your site. SEO includes the knowledge of how the Internet works, how search engines rank content, and how to move your website to the top in search engines and get more traffic.
… Continue reading Email Insiders Only: Essential SEO Guide for Photographers
What do a graphic designer, an owner of a local cafe, a hairdresser and a photographer have in common? It’s a business card, of course! Tons of similar, ordinary business cards made on a white piece of paper with black lettering on them overload the market. These days, you need to have a really creative business card to impress your potential clients.
A business card, as part of photography branding, is critically important, especially while establishing your photography business.
… Continue reading 40 Creative Examples of Photography Business Card Designs for Inspiration
