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May 1st, 2012 – VANCOUVER, CANADA: PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 51st edition of the downloadable (PDF) PhotographyBB Magazine. PhotographyBB Magazine provides a diverse range of photographic education for beginner to intermediate level photographers. With over 120,000 downloaded editions each month, PhotographyBB Magazine has become a leading resource in the future of free information distribution. The publication offers readers: Digital Photography tips …
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What is the point of taking photos if not to share them with our friends, our family, or even the world? If you’re anything like me, you love taking photos, but sometimes the task of getting them out into the world is daunting, confusing, and can feel unproductive. To be successful, there are a few questions that need to be answered: Why should we be sharing our photographs with the world? Which photos should we be sharing? How do we find an audience and build a following to share them with?
Shoot and Share: Getting Your Photographs Out Into the World by Stuart Sipahigil, the latest eBook release from our friends at Craft & Vision, answers these questions and more. Stuart discusses strategies for sharing photos online and building an eager audience across venues such as Flickr, 500px, Google+, Facebook, your own website, prints, photobooks, and more. Stuart also talks about his method for overcoming the confusion and time consumption required to make it all possible.
Photography at it’s core is all about communication. Why, how, and where can we find an audience to share our photography with? Some of the most popular photographers that we all know of (and follow) are masters of TWO things:
With this 56-spread eBook, Stuart answers the above questions and provides down-to-earth, practical advice based on his experience of 30 years.
Whether you are learning photography as a beginner, a hobbyist, or you are a professional, there’s no better investment in the continued growth of your photography for $5, although today thru April 28th, 2012, you get it for only $4 with the discount code: SHARE4 or us the code SHARE20 to get 20% off if you are purchasing any 5 or more eBooks (codes expires at 11:59pm PST April 28th, 2012).
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The downloadable PDF is just $5USD. (or only $4 today if you use the discount code: SHARE4)
You can view some page samples or download the ebook here: SHOOT AND SHARE: Getting Your Photographs Out Into the World
Happy Photographing folks!
Mar 29th, 2012 – VANCOUVER, CANADA: PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 50th edition of the downloadable (PDF) PhotographyBB Magazine. PhotographyBB Magazine provides a diverse range of photographic education for beginner to intermediate level photographers. With over 100,000 downloaded editions each month, has become a leading resource in the future of free information distribution. The publication offers readers: Digital Photography tips and techniques, explorations on learning to harness creativity, issues surrounding the photo community, social media for photographers, entrepreneurial advice for emerging professionals, and image post processing tutorials in Adobe® Photoshop, and RAW processing in Photoshop Lightroom.
PhotographyBB Magazine is available for free download: http://www.photographyBB.com/magazine
The 50th edition explores the issue of developing one’s own creative style, techniques for minimizing background distractions when portrait shooting on the go, and even income tax tips for working photographers.
Editor in Chief, Dave Seeram had these comments regarding this recent release:
Since the beginning of 2012, I’ve been determined to bring a more diverse selection of article topics to the magazine that I feel are fun, captivating, and applicable to most photographers whether amateur or as emerging professionals. I feel that we’ve done a remarkable job on this edition in accomplishing that mandate and I’m excited to see what the reaction is. I believe change fosters growth, which is what we hope to inspire for all of our readers.
Speaking of change, I picked up a new iPad recently with thoughts of how it may change the way I approach my own photography. In this edition, I reveal what my thoughts are on how the new iPad will impact photography from both community and industry standpoints.
PhotographyBB Magazine is available for free download through the PhotographyBB Website at: http://www.photographyBB.com/magazine
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As photography enthusiasts of different backgrounds, ages, genres, and experience levels, there’s one commonality that we share – we all take photographs of our friends, family, and loved ones. It doesn’t matter what genre photographer you are, nor which camera model you have (smartphones included), we all share this thread of common humanity. Most of us take ‘portrait’ photos at family gatherings, events, celebrations, etc… While we treasure the memory of these times, asking our loved ones to stand in front of the camera and say “cheese” only captures an insincere moment. As subjects, we’ve been conditioned to stand in front of a camera and hold a fake smile while trying not to blink. As photographers, we’ve been conditioned to center our subjects and give them the ol’ “one, two, three – click” count. You are capable of more. It’s not about lighting equipment, camera settings, or even about “vision”. It’s about expression, and finding the precise moment to capture the best image of our loved ones. Let’s take photos that connect emotionally, rather than images that just say, “Hey, I was there, they were there, and I took a snapshot of them.”
With his latest release, Forget Mugshots: 10 Steps to Better Portraits, David duChemin is at it again, making the photographic world a more beautiful place, sharing his wealth of experience when it comes to making portraits. I have long subscribed to David’s views on the importance of vision over technique, and we’ve come to a point now where we all ‘get it’, vision is important. But now it’s time to move beyond vision, beyond technique, and shift into a different gear – expression. You may have the technical abilities and the vision, but now it’s time to understand how to express it. Forget Mugshots shows us how to do that. These aren’t sequential steps, rather (as David puts it), “if I could tell you only 10 things to make your people photography stronger, what would those 10 things be?”
Whether you are learning photography as a beginner, a hobbyist, or you are a professional, there’s no better investment in the continued growth of your photography for $5, although today thru Mar 17th, 2012, you get it for only $4 with the discount code: MUGSHOTS4 or us the code MUGSHOTS20 to get 20% off if you are purchasing any 5 or more eBooks (codes expires at 11:59pm PST Mar 17th, 2012).
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The downloadable PDF is just $5USD. (or only $4 today if you use the discount code: MUGSHOTS4)
You can view some page samples or download the ebook here: Forget Mugshots: 10 Steps to Better Portraits.
Happy Photographing folks!
Photo challenges (or photo “assignments”) are a great way of helping us to step out of our comfort zones with the camera. We post one new challenge to our forums monthly, were everyone is welcome to push themselves in coming up with spectacular photos based on the theme which we assign! Remember, the name of the game here is not only great photography, but having fun and thinking creatively. And your assignment theme is…
Assignment #64 Theme: Coin Spin!
Timeframe: Mar 1st – Mar 15th, 2012
Entries are to be submitted here: Assignment #64: Coin Spin! (PhotographyBB Forums)
That’s right – a coin spin! What we’re going to look for this month is how you decide to capture a spinning coin. What type of coin will you spin? Will you shoot with a fast or slow shutter speed? How will you light it? Will the background play any particular role? Lots of possibilities with this one. Enjoy the exercise and have fun with it. I look forward to all of your entries.
Important (Please Read): With all of our photo assignments, the object (besides having fun) is to learn something new, even if that means learning how to see the world around you in a different way. Therefore, we only accept entries for new photos which have been taken during the assignment time frame (see above). You may submit up to 3 entries in total, and the top 3 photos will be selected and published (with image acknowledgments) in an upcoming issue of the PhotographyBB Online Magazine.
In our efforts to help photographers grow and improve, our photography assignments are designed to test and push your creative bounds to the limit. These photo assignments are intended to encourage our members to see the world in different ways, try new camera techniques, and photograph subject which you may normally shy away from. We feel that in doing this, you will ultimately find new challenges for yourself which will help us to all grow as photographers. Our photography assignments are open to everyone at all skill levels and are to be submitted through our assignments section in the PhotographyBB Forums. Membership is completely free and you can register in seconds, so feel free to join our community of photographers where we participate in assignments, share photos, and discuss photography all day long. We have a supportive and friendly community of photographers and beginners, and this is a great way to get to know one another. Have fun, and happy photographing!
