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Anon,Ellen
& Tim Grey
Photoshop ® for Nature Photographers : A Workshop in a Book.
Incl. CD. SBN: 0-7821-4427-6 Paperback, 314 pages. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Publishers. August 2005
Description: Photoshop for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Bookis the first book that teaches nature photographers practical Photoshop skills that will solve their most common problems. It features a real-world approach that simulates a workshop experience, gorgeous photography, and tips and techniques from the biggest names in nature photography.
Ellen Anon is an accomplished photographer — her photos have been showcased in calendars, posters, galleries, magazines, and books, including Sierra Club's Mother Earth. Ellen teaches photography and Photoshop workshops for nature photographers around the country.
Tim Grey writes about digital photography for Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, and PC Photo magazines. He is the author of Photoshop CS2 Workflow, Color Confidence, and co-author of Photo Finish, all from Sybex. Tim is also a popular speaker at seminars and trade shows. In his almost-daily "Digital Darkroom Questions" (DDQ) e-mail service, he answers questions from photography enthusiasts and pros.
Angel, H. ( ) The book of nature photography: a practical guide to creative techniques. Ebury Press (Dorling Kindersly).
Campbell, L. (1990) Guide to birds and nature photography. RSPB/David & Charles.
Tim Fitzharris: Nature Photography : National Audubon Society Guide
John Shaw:
The Nature Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques
Nature Photographers Online Magazine
Photo gallery by nature photographer Soren Breiting
Nature photography
is one of the most rewarding - and difficult - kinds of photography.
It is a challenging hobby and a difficult professional way of living.
Each nature photographer will often combine the income from selling the pictures with additional income generating activities like:
WorldEcho offers
templates and portfolio facilities for nature photographers, other photographers
and artists.
But I find it too expensive compared to other offers, see below, because the
number of nature photographs you can have online is very limited. It is the
limitation in webspace that will limit your web presense, and it isn't competitive
when you take other options into consideration.
The problem is also that you cannot be sure, that these web designs will generate a substantial number of visitors through traffic generated from Google and other search engines. You find WebEcho here.
Web
hosting for your own website where you present yourself as a nature photographer.
At SiteBuildIt you will get unlimited space for your nature
photos and there are no limitations to how much traffic you can have for the
basic fee.
The biggist deal is all the additional benefits you get to support your development of a high ranking website with a lot of traffic. This is the most overlooked aspect by photographers. I cannot tell you how many websites I see with nice photography, but without much traffic.
Many photographers seem to be happy with less than a hundred visitors a day, or 'successful ones' with just a few hundreds.
This is a very modest amount of traffic for a good photography site. Many get even much less.
Remember, that you will compete with more than 320.000.000 websites and pages when people search for "photo" in Google.
Even when they search for a specific term like "nature photos" you will still have to compete with a little less than 200.000.
With a search after "nature photography" your competition with be around 900.000 - again a very tuff competition and it is only getting worse and worse.
Many photographers will run banner ads and text ads and these can easily cost them a lot of money.
To me this isn't the solution. The solution is to use the help we can get from a service like SiteBuildIt (and I don't know any other service like that). I have at present two websites hosted at Site Build It and make use of all the extra knowledge I get from these websites for running my other websites successfully. Here you see the proof of what Site Build It help us with.
Go down the Site Build It page to A "Few" (Hundred) More Success Stories! and click this. (Be patient while downloading this long list).
Search in your browser's edit function with 'Find' after one of the words 'picture' or 'photo' and you will get to examples of very successful nature photographers. You can see how they rank in traffic in this very competitive area of nature photography of nature photographers.
You will also get the best help on any technical issue, and how to get some additional income from your display of your nature photograhy and other photos.
Remark the
importance of
Good content -> Traffic -> Presell ->
Monetize
and take your time to read the full explanation with imporntant information.
You can create
the good content if you have good nature pictures. With Site Build It you will
learn that to get traffic it isn't as much about the quality of your photos
as it is about the quality of the text you add to your pictures.
You can use your nature photography even if your main content isn't about nature
photography
but for example focussed on hotels near to where your nature photos were taken.
I many ways you can learn to combine your different interests and earn some
good money, even to make a living or just to cover your costs of your photography
as a nature photographer.
You find more general information about the SiteBuildIt system here - take your time to read it through, it might be some of your most valuable minutes online.
Online PhotoSharing .net gives you an overview of the possibilities and prices for sharing your nature photography with other nature photographers if you don't want your own website.
The photo Diary of Soren Breiting = Me :-))
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