Best Photography Websites

Blogs

The best are entertaining and informative, establishing the photographer’sexpertise and building a relationship of trust and credibility with potentialclients.

Teaching
Photographers are passing on their knowledge and experience to beginners andenthusiasts.

Selling
Photographers are promoting themselves and their work. Some stock photographerssell their photos through their websites rather than the big agencies.

Workshops
Many established photographers earn money by teaching, and promote theirworkshops on their websites.

Social networking
Many photographers have a page on Facebook, or a Flickr or Twitter account.

Flash
Flash-based websites can be beautiful and effective, freeing the web designerfrom the limitations of HTML and CSS. The downside is that they’re expensive tocreate, can take time to download and aren’t good for SEO. Often used by prophotographers who will send their url to interested parties and need aspectacular showcase for their images.

HUGE photos
Photography websites are naturally dominated by images. A recent trend is todisplay large photos for maximum impact.

Sophisticated design
Photographers are visual artists and need the design of their websites toreflect this. Good design often works in the background by making websitesquick to load, easy to navigate and search engine friendly.

Content over design
No matter how good the design, content is king. It may look pretty, but if itdoesn’t inform and entertain, your visitors won’t return. 

Here, we compiled some of the mostpopular photography websites, all  are very useful to all the graphic designer. 

Bottle Bell Photography
Daniel Kennedy Photography
East Photographic
Jason Bell
Jeffery Salter
Jill Greenberg
Jonathan Glynn Smith
 

The New Invention - Laser Keyboard

This decade has been a decade of surprises with Phones without a Keyboard, touchscreen technologies, 3D cameras and movies, Projectors that fit in pockets and now the elusive Laser Keyboard which once seemed a dream is here to thrill you with its exquisite design and colossal impression.

The keyboard works on direction technology based on an optical recognition mechanism which enables the user to tap on the projected key images, while producing real tapping sounds just like a real keyboard. The adaptable technology studies the user’s finger movements to interpret and record keystrokes. Because the virtual keyboard is an image projected by light, it disappears completely when not in use. With exact dimensions of (38 x 75 x 29 mm) this keyboard is of the size of a cellphone which makes it an easy-to-carry productive device.

The device comes in various vibrant as well as classic colours and is used in Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s), Cellular Telephones, Laptops (Mac compatible), Tablet PCs, Space saving Computers, Clean Rooms, Industrial Environments, Test Equipment, Sterile and Medical Environments and Transport (Air, Rail, Automotive).

Google's New Doodle on Valentine's Day

Everyone's Favourite - GOOGLE published a new doodle on Valentine's Day

Windows 8 may launch on 29th February 2012

Windows, being one of the most used OS, brings great challenges forMicrosoft to keep its users impressed in the next version of Windows. i.e.Windows 8 may release in February end 2012.

Windows 7 has done exceptionally well since its release, Microsoft has beenconstantly working to make the next version of Windows a better one by furtherimproving upon the existing features, and have added new impressive Windows 8features along with a stunning UI.

Microsoft released the early version of Windows 8 on aprototype tablet recently. Those of you who would like to taste and experiencethe all new Windows 8, you can download the Developer Preview, which iscurrently in pre-beta version. The developer version shows off the currentstage of the OS. It is available for freedownload.

60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers

Having another designer’s PSD file is as good as owning a chef’s recipe book. The only difference is – we designers are willing share and sometimes we even distribute them ourselves so others can download and learn from our techniques.

Get All in PSD format

Fresh Free Fonts For Designers

Weston, Ranger, Quattrocento Sans, Bohema, Shattered 3D Font, Signify Lite and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time. So here are 15 High Quality Fresh Free Fonts For Designer, enjoy !

Adobe Photoshop CS6: Sneak Peek at the new Camera Raw

Adobe has posted a great new sneak-peek video of what you’ll be able to do with the new Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw.  Showing off some amazing processing capable on crappy cell-phone photos along with some new UI features like interface color changes.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 New Sneak - Peek

Top 10 Graphic Designers reveal their secrets – Let’s get inspired!

At times when designers run short of brilliant ideas, after putting in so much of research and brain storming, they feel down thinking maybe they are in the wrong profession.

Whenever, we fail to succeed in any project, we start questioning our capabilities but I think it’s not lack of our talent but the limited sources of inspiration we follow. We should not be following any definite trends of inspiration. From a colorful kite swaying in the wind to a bright red cherry topped on vanilla ice-cream, every visual object can be interpreted into graphic design. It’s just that we should keep our eyes wide open while looking for a unique concept for a project.

Few days back when I was about to give up thinking for my new project, I decided to search net and see what famous graphic designers do to get inspired. Luckily, I found some intresting replies from 10 big names of Graphic Design world and quote them below for you all to get inspired. I have only included their answers to one question:

“Where do you get inspiration for your graphic designing projects?”

You probably are familiar with most, if not all, of these people, and I’m sure there is plenty that we can all learn from these replies. Lets get inspired.