This article will walk you through creating a badge for your Twitter account.

Login to yourTwitter account.Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the screen and click on Goodies.

 
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PhotoBiz is so excited to announce the release of a one of a kind new feature that will blow you away!  This feature cannot be done with any other template system in our industry.  In fact, if you want to do something like what we are doing, it would require extensive coding knowledge and quite a bit of money!
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“White Hat” SEO = Good

As we discussed last time, there are generally two types of SEO: White Hat and Black Hat. Black Hat SEO utilizes unethical methods to artificially inflate search engine placement. While White Hat SEO on the other hand, involves ethical techniques which conform to a search engine provider’s guidelines with no deceptions.  We are first going to focus in a little more on the White Hat techniques…

There is no specific ruleset for good SEO. The general guideline is this: the more accessible and readable your website would be to a live human being, the better it will rank on a search engine. Search engines specifically want to catalog pages that humans will use. The best thing you can do, therefore, is to make your content clear, accessible, easy to find, relevant and up to date.

Let’s look at some other things you can do to improve your searchability.

Links

One of the best things you can do for your site’s rank is to have a lot of good quality pages linking back to you. Keep in mind what the search engines consider “good quality”. Links from real sites are quality. Links from legitimate social media pages are good, too. read full blog entry…

February 2010 Featured Photographer of the Month

1. What equipment you do you use?
I shoot with BOTH digital and film believe it or not. I use all Nikon cameras and lenses. My digital cameras are the Nikon D700, and Nikon Dxs. I’m planning on purchasing the D3. My film cameras are Nikon F100 (I have 3 of them). I have lots of lenses. My favorite standard portrait lens is my 105mm f 2.8. I think every portrait photographer should invest in this lens. I also have a few zoom lenses. I have an 28mm -105mm macro zoom f 4.5/5.6. This is my party lens. I use it for candids and tight spaces with lots of people mingling around because I can zoom in and out. My other zoom is my 80mm-210mm f 2.8. I use this when I’m at a distance and need to zoom in and blow out the background completely. It’s a heavy lens but its serves it’s purpose. Occasionally but not often I’ll shoot with my 50mm on my Dxs (which becomes a 70mm) when I am in a tight space but need the extra speed for the 1.8 lens. I also have a collection of antique film cameras with imperfect lenses I occasionally use for my vintage looking imagery.
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