I am constantly looking at other photographers work and trying to find some inspiration that will lead to a project that every facebook and twitter user will comment on. Bringing my work in front of every photo buyer in the nation and thus propelling my career like a rocket in an instant.

This is unlikely to actually occur, but along the way I come across all types of work. Good, bad… everything in between and it shocks me how high the percentage is of good work being shown at the F Stop Magazine. They find all types of photographers and display their work to the world. I am not sure what their readership is like, but any one that isnt watching them should be.

Here is a link to the most recent article they have posted. Check it out if you get a chance and don’t forget to bookmark their RSS.

So, at the beginning of the summer I went shopping for monolights. It took me a month or two to commit to a purchase after reading review after review, but I finally settled on Elinchrom’s BX500Ri.

I went with Elinchrom for a lot of reason’s, and so far I am not disappointed.

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Just saw this over on the Photo Editor’s Blog. I figured some NESOP people might be interested. A documentary symposium online tonight at 8pm. Click here to check it out or the photo clip below. Also, take a look at some of the Photo Editor’s recent posts, some great video and interesting views.

I have been using a Macbeth Color Checker Chart for quite a while now and just recently stumbled across there new Passport system. It is actually a series of Charts and Cards combined with a software system for your computer that works directly with Photoshop to produce a calibration for a batch of images. I have been very satisfied with the results of the Color Checker and would love to fiddle around with the new system. For now, check out this video from X-Rite.

So things went relatively smoothly with the new about page photo. No more “mug shot” so my family will be happy. Below are the two pages to compare. Comments are welcome!

Old "Mug Shot"

New and Improved

Lately this blog has taken a backseat to other aspects of my business and I intend to rectify that starting today. I haven’t posted in more than 2 months and there is just no excuse for that. So over the coming months I intend to change gears a bit. This afternoon I am being photographed to replace my current “mugshot” (as it has been described).

I will post later today about how that shoot goes and from now on I will try to post something every week day.

For now though, check out John Harrington’s Blog, Photo Business News & Forum, for some info on the release of his latest edition to his book “Best Business Practices for Photographers”.

I was reading the Strobist Blog today and found this article fascinating. Check it out if you get a chance.

Making a living $0.40 at a time just seems like a failing business model, but when your selling 2000 images a day, I guess you can push through it. After seeing this post on the Strobist I checked out Yuri’s blog and I was pretty impressed with that as well. Check it out here

Very well spoken and clearly on top of his game. I don’t think it’s for me but I will definitely look at stock differently from now on.

The videos are great and the concept of making stock work just captured my attention. Hope you like it.

    One of my many goals for this summer is to get my website on the first page for anyone searching for a “Boston Photographer”. This isn’t as easy as some people have led me to believe but over the coming months I will be posting about everything that I am doing to improve my ranking. For those of you that don’t know, this is know as Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

    For starters, I have changed all of my page titles. This is what appears at the top of the window to tell you which page it is as well as what shows up in the header for the search results. My pages were previously titled “MWynne.com Photography – Page” (Page being Home, About, etc.) This made my ranking jump for people that search for “mwynne” or “mwynne photography” but for all the people out there that don’t already know who I am… it wasn’t doing much good. Now my titles are “MWynne.com Photography | Page | Architectural, Editorial and Lifestyle Boston Photographer”. Basicly I have just thrown in some more keywords for the crawlers to find.

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