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Building A Free Photography Website

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Feb 102010

To Make More Money

Free Photography WordPress theme : WP Pix Demo Screenshot

WP Pix is one of the FREE WordPress Themes for photography sites discussed in this article.

Save your money for new lenses and more pocket wizards – building a good photography website doesn’t need to be expensive. In the pages that follow, I’ll cover a few basic requirements and several options that you can use to create a feature rich, attractive, and profitable website in the shortest amount of time and for the least amount of money. You don’t need to know HTML or CSS or Javascript or Flash… so jump right in! Before long, you’ll be online and pulling in (at least a little) cash. It’s easier than you might think.

Photography is an expensive hobby… an SLR body, a few nice lenses, a good printer, and the related flashes, software and accessories, and you can spend $10,000 in very short order. Photographers deserve to make back a little cash. Almost every means of making money with your photography either require or would benefit tremendously from a good website that is dedicated to your photography. Every photographer needs an online portfolio. They need a place to list their prices for services they offer. They need a gallery for their fine art, and a place to get their name into the public realm. Your needs will differ depending on your style of photography and your goals, but there are many commonalities as well. Continue reading »

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Noise Reduction Software : Reviews and Comparisons

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Dec 172009

Introduction

Noise Reduction software is now an integral part of the photographic workflow, just as much as yellow and magenta filters were in the days of the wet B&W darkroom. They are particularly important, though, for those of us working in photojournalism, wedding photography, and similar fields that require us to shoot indoors in poorly lit venues at high ISOs. Even images from the best modern sensors benefit from proper noise reduction (NR) treatment.

One of Photoshop CS4′s few shortcomings, though, is its weak noise reduction functionality. To get the best results, it is now necessary to use 3^rd party software, either stand alone or as a Photoshop plug-in. Over the years, dozens of different NR programs have been released, but today, only a handful of them are really worthy of attention, either because of their popularity or effectiveness.

One wonderful site, MichaelAlmond.com, has already compared many of these programs, especially many of the older Photoshop actions, and I would not hesitate to recommend reading his information. I found, though, that his reviews were missing some key information and were, at the same time, not organized for quick reference. They’re also getting to be a little out of date (last updated in 2005). Consequently, I’ve decided to write some updated and augmented reviews of my own. I hope that you find them useful.

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