Photography how to guides
- 31st Jan 2008
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I got asked into a meeting with the chesterfield sofa guys, to answer a couple of questions
one on how to help them sell a 15ft Lime Green Chesterfield Sofa .. (which I can handle ok ) more on that later. but if you need a 15ft chesterfield sofa it’s here
but they also wanted to know some good places for guides on how to take better photos or online photography schools, all the images they have on the site at the moment have been done professionally, but know they have their own studio and setup now, so I want some urls of sites that are about photography.
DaveN
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I remember a blog post from Matt Cutts where re recommends a book called The Digital Photography Book. I’ve been meaning to check it out for some time now.
Come on dude..That is a poor attempt at link spam??
This site by Darren Rowse is hard to beat http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/
Hasn’t been updated in a while, but there’s some useful basic tips at http://photoguide.travellerspoint.com/
I agree about the Darren Rowse site http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/ - it’s really good.
Off topic - I had a look at the Chesterfield sofa site’s html source and css just to see if I could pick up any SEO God tips!
Is there any evidence that putting the header div after the main content div in the html and then swapping them using css helps pages get indexed/ranked better?
I’ve never bothered to do this myself but if you guys (presumably Bronco) are doing it then there must be something in it?
A blog which I contribute is http://www.photoaxe.com lot’s of good tutorials here
Here’s a few I used to read when I was more into digi photography:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
http://www.fredmiranda.com/
http://photographytony.blogspot.com/
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
hope these help…
Hadi : the chesterfield site is how all our sites get built it out biggest footprint I guess.. even if they are not an seo customer we try to give every website a good start.
Chris Holmes : That is a poor attempt at link spam?? .. you jest me.. this blog doesn’t even have Nofollow, so getting Steve from Chesterfields just to comment on my blog with the anchor text chesterfield sofa would benefit him .. but then he is after advice on Photography.. and some viral marketing on his green sofa.. which I said I would blog about once that project is ready :)
DaveN
added : I was really testing how to guides :P joke
DaveN
Are you kidding?
Photography is as specialised a field as, well, spammi^h^h^h SEO!
Would you point someone at a couple of sites on BH and say ‘now you are right to take on the big boys’?
No, I didn’t think so :)
Tell them that if they want it to look *great* they need to hire a pro, even if it is someone in house to work in their studio.
Anything else… won’t sell Chesterfields, anymore than if they do their SEO themselves.
Lea
~ wife to a pro photographer and gets to listen to all the babble about DOF and HDR and which kit to use and… stuff (I don’t listen! ;) ) all the time :(
Dave, I think Chris Holmes was refering to Chris Moran’s post.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22I+found+your+site+on+technorati+and+read+a+few+of+your+other+posts.+Keep+up+the+good+work%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Thanks for all of the helpful replies, guys.
The posted sites will be helpful as its really the light composition element that were struggling with at the moment.
Lea- i absolutely agree with you which is why we hired a professional photographer to do the vast majority of the photography. We are now finding ourselves with odd pieces to photograph and simply cannot afford to hire in the said professional to photograph one chesterfield sofa at a time, as we are only a small family company.
Jason- some very interesting reading which i will be trying very hard to absorb this afternoon.
Once again, Thanks all.
Hi all.
Thanks for the feedback- its really the light composition element that were struggling with.
Lea- I absolutely agree with your comment, which is why we had a professional come and do the bulk of the stock. We are now in a position, though, where we have odd sofas and chairs arriving with us for a day before final despatch which we would like images of and its just not feasible to hire a pro to come over and take 5 shots.
Jason- Some really useful links which i will be absorbing over the weekend.
Thanks again all.
If you’re using Photoshop to touch-up or improve the photographed images, one site with great tutorials is Chromasia (www.chromasia.com).
there are some few tutorial here
http://www.noeman.org/gsm/graphic-design/
Hope that help you Chesterfield
Mr Sofa, I’d send my man around to help you out, if it weren’t for that whole ‘wrong continent’ thing :)