Professional web tools for the photographer

Recently my partner had an interesting experience and I have learned a lot from it too. He was asked by Nancy Morrison to be a model for some portrait photography. Nancy used to be a dancer and then decided to photograph dancers. She has moved on to photographing actors and couples now. Her portraits are wonderful, but she has been able to afford nice lenses and has learned photography very well, it seems. She is now a professional photographer.

My partner did the session and the results are here

Nancy has used a site to create her galleries. It is called zenfolio. As you can see, it costs, but not much. You can try a free trial and then sign up for a basic package, or pay more for a professional package. I’m not sure which one Nancy chose. What’s interesting about this site is that people cannot download the pictures. Not only that, it is easy to navigate and looks attractive.
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Jenny Campbell's photographic journey

Jenny Campbell’s photographic journey

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The wibiya web toolbar

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The wibiya web toolbar should be showing at the bottom of this blog. You can add information to it, delete what you don’t want and use it to see your stats. Of course you need to alter the settings to suit your blog or web site. I think it’s great because you can use it and your visitors can use it to easily add a post to Facebook, Twitter or Digg, for example.

It also makes your site look pretty cool and professional. it is a growing application with more and more people using it. Features are added frequently.

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Prezi – a visual web based presentation tool

Prezi is a web-based presentation tool with so much more to offer than Microsoft Power Point.
It has built-in design tools allowing the effects of time, space and movement.
It is free if you only use 100 megabytes of storage space. These become public and have a watermark on them.

You can pay to have the watermark removed and the presentations will be private and you get 500 megabytes of storage space.
The next level of payment allows you to download to your desktop and have 2 megabytes of storage space.

What are they useful for?

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Modern word press themes

You know, if you are prepared to pay a little money, word press layouts and themes are now so good they can be the platform for a web site. Content management systems like WP are so easy these days and global changes are easy too.

I’ve been searching for quite a while for a new template because I attempted to add my Twitter and Facebook logos so you could find me there. Well you seem to have to pay for these. There are really excellent themes out there but I recommend this one from Woo.

They come with the ability to change text and graphics, without having to go into the PHP pages to change them. That reminds me. There is a spot for Google analytics which I’ve forgotten to fill in yet.

These new and modern word press themes also come with SEO embedded and the ability to emded videos.

I haven’t finished this blog layout by any means but I thought I’d give you a little look. I got this one for free, but there is no support for it. So I’m having to work out how it works, because one has to add one’s own information in different places with this one. I cannot add menus to the top just yet, but I have added my flickr photos and altered the heading graphic which came with this theme.

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See your external links

I have come across a free external link manager. It is called e-referrer

What you do is sign up and they will collect referrers for you which appear on your blog or web site. I first thought that these kind of back links were alien to Google, that Google didn’t like them, but I tried it out anyway.

Gradually, as people come to this site the referrers are appearing. You can see the list down the bottom right. I have found it surpringly useful, even though I have only had it for less than 24 hours. It alerts me to which Google seaches are coming to my site and I was surprised. On the google page one of my posts was on the front page and it had my picture, my blog and other posts of mine.

So give it a go. It’s in beta form at the moment and your user name appears on their site. Already my user name has disappeared, so it must be popular.

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Many social networking sites on one page

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Popurls is a gateway for the latest web-buzz; a single page that provides up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet (Twitter, DIGG, YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo Buzz, Google Blogs/News, Spike, Wired, Hulu), etc.

Great site!

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Bukisa

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Bukisa is a bit like Squidoo.

It is a convenient, one-stop community where members can find information and educational content. Content includes articles, videos, presentations, audio recordings and image slideshows. In addition, members are paid ongoing royalties for their shared knowledge contributions.

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Great twitter app

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JustUnfollow is a simple twitter app site for unfollowing users not following you. Simply sign into your twitter account and once authorized you can selectively choose those users you want to unfollow.

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Free image hosting sites

You can use these sites to find appropriate photos for your blogs or Squidoo. You can also upload photos to them as a way of storing them off your computer or sharing them with friends.

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