Help Wanted for the Blog « Vincent Laforet’s Blog

I’m look­ing for some­one who is pretty obsessed with gear.   If you get a cer­tain kind of high with get­ting a chance to be the very first to hold a pro­to­type in your hands – this is the job for you.   The catch?  You need to have a good under­stand­ing of Word Press and some HTML – the more the bet­ter – as you’ll be help­ing to develop the “My Gear” sec­tion of this blog.  I’m look­ing for some­one to work part time for 2–3 days a week reg­u­larly through­out the year.

via Help Wanted for the Blog « Vin­cent Laforet’s Blog.

Gad­get & Word­Press Geek for Vin­cent Laforet? Where do I sign up?

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Why My Photos Disappoint Me Sometimes

All of us who do cre­ative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first cou­ple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s try­ing to be good, it has poten­tial, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work dis­ap­points you.

Ira Glass (via NPR)

Bril­liant quote, read the rest at the source link.

Short ver­sion… keep at it.

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dpreview.com Looking for Freelance Writers

I see that one of my favorite Cam­era sites is look­ing for Free­lance Writ­ers. This sounds like my dream job, work from home, on your own sched­ule, review­ing the lat­est and great­est in Cam­era technology.

Judg­ing by my typ­i­cal post­ing rate here though, maybe it’s not such a great idea ;-)

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Upgrade In Progress

Please for­give the occa­sional bro­ken link, miss­ing image, and empty portfolio!

UPDATE: Most parts of the web­site should be func­tional now. Some old posts still need some finess­ing, but other than that, we should be there!

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Major Website Upgrade This Weekend

Change comes to us all, and this web­site is no dif­fer­ent. Over the next cou­ple of days I will be giv­ing the entire site a refresh which should (if I am very care­ful and lucky :-) ):

  • Pre­serve all my blog con­tent, includ­ing com­ments, perma­links, stats, etc.
  • Make it eas­ier to add new con­tent, includ­ing new full screen galleries
  • Have a more refined, pro­fes­sional look and feel
  • Fully sup­port brows­ing on iPhone, iPad, etc.
  • Bit a lit­tle slicker, and more up2date behind the curtain

While there will be some down­time (I unfor­tu­nately can’t afford mir­rored real time sys­tems), hope­fully it won’t be too painful. When all is said and done, I will try an write up my tips for set­ting up your own pho­tog­ra­phy website.

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Some More Quick Links

Snow Leopard

Can A (Snow) Leop­ard Change It’s Spots?

Those few hardy souls fol­low­ing my Twit­ter stream must be won­der­ing what’s going on with some bizarre posts. I have been work­ing away with giv­ing my web­site a fresh lick of paint, and test­ing the changes at www.jonathanbourke.ie. It’s com­ing along nicely, but it will be a few weeks yet. The new site, while look­ing sim­i­lar to the exist­ing site, will have a more con­sis­tent struc­ture to it and will greatly ease gallery posting.

In the mean­time, here are some inter­est­ing links I came across:

  • How To Get The Best Colour Out Of Your Pho­tos — Life­hacker again comes up with a great guide for pho­tog­ra­phers. This one is heav­ily color focused, and the Pho­to­shop wiz­ardry required.
  • How to get (more) space in a news­pa­per — I fol­low the @adrianweckler on Twit­ter, edi­tor of the con­sumer tech sec­tion in the Sun­day Busi­ness Post news­pa­per in Ire­land. He shares some great tips for PR peo­ple (and pho­tog­ra­phers) in this post bemoan­ing the qual­ity of photo’s sent to journalists.
  • Light­room Cam­era Cal­i­bra­tion — I spend way too much time on my pho­tog­ra­phy tools, rather than using my pho­tog­ra­phy tools. This post on Cam­era Cal­i­bra­tion in Light­room def­i­nitely falls into the first cat­e­gory, but what the hell, I’ll share this link from Matt Kloskowski anyway.
  • What I’d Love to See in Light­room 4 — Damn; and I am only get­ting started on Light­room 3 (and the 3.2 release is nearly upon us, bring­ing with it direct post­ing to Face­book!). Scott Kelby gets the ball rolling with his wish list for Light­room 4, then has to defend it, before oth­ers chime in with their sug­ges­tions.
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Do You Use Lightroom? WordPress?

Lightroom & WordPress user? Then check this out!

Light­room & Word­Press user? Then check this out!

Get­ting my images from Light­room to my web­site has always been a bit of an ordeal:

  1. Select images and export from Light­room to disk
  2. Log into word­press, and man­age media
  3. Upload new images, and dig around on your hard disk to find them
  4. Cre­ate a new blog post, or page, or what­ever, and then attach the images to them
  5. Profit?

If this sounds like you, then you absolutely need this Adobe Light­room Export plu­gin from Luc Renam­bot called “Dossier De Presse”. Read on for more details and a sam­ple gallery.

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Some Quick Links

A screenshot of Flickrs new look

Flickrs New Look

After the “War and Peace” like length of my last post on “Edit­ing Canon EOS 7D Video with Pre­miere Pro”, I have taken a bit of a break. Here are some quick pho­tog­ra­phy related links to dis­tract while I craft my next mas­ter­piece :-)

  • Life­hacker — How to record great video with your hd dslr cam­era. Some great tips on shoot­ing video, includ­ing know­ing which way your focus ring moves. Sounds sim­ple, but you don’t have time to mess around with this when shoot­ing video.
  • ImpulseAd­ven­ture — Com­par­i­son of Dig­i­tal Photo Cat­a­log Soft­ware. After my brief reviews of DAM soft­ware such as Adobe Light­room, I found this excel­lent (and mas­sive) com­par­i­son table of pretty much every soft­ware prod­uct for dig­i­tal asset man­age­ment known to man.
  • Finally, Flickr will shortly be intro­duc­ing an excit­ing new look, as seen in the image at the head of this post. It also fea­tures a great “Dark” mode, seen below, some­thing which many third party ser­vices had pro­vided in the past. I use Flickr to show­case my images, it’s a great com­mu­nity, and I enjoy the feed­back that an image or gallery on my web­site doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily receive.
A screenshot of the new Flickr "Dark" Mode

The new Flickr “Dark” mode

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    Website Relaunch

    The sun emerging from a storm in the Maldives

    The sun emerg­ing from a storm in the Maldives

    So I am finally relaunch­ing the web­site. It has taken some time, but I believe that I now have the bits and pieces in place to meet my needs for the future. For those who are inter­ested in these things, I will update my pre­vi­ous post on this topic at a later date. In par­tic­u­lar I wanted my web­site to:

    • show­case my pho­tog­ra­phy — check out the new Port­fo­lio sec­tion which will grow over time
    • facil­i­tate sales of my images — you can now do this by click­ing the “Buy Print” links over each image in the Port­fo­lio
    • pro­vide a forum to dis­cuss pho­tog­ra­phy, cam­era gear, tech­niques, and my strug­gles with all of these — see my Blog
    • let peo­ple find out about me, and get in touch on my About Me page

    And I wanted this all to look in some way professional!

    For those who have called around before, you will notice that I have migrated my domain to a “.Com”. The main rea­son for this is that I now live in Aus­tralia, and rather than get an Aus­tralian domain to aug­ment my exist­ing “.ie”, it would be sim­pler to just use the one truly global domain name, despite the fact that “.Com” was never intended to ful­fil this role.

    I have migrated most of the old con­tent, and imple­mented a redi­rect from my old site, but please get in touch if you find any­thing which needs correcting.

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    All Change!

    Sydney Sails at Dawn

    Syd­ney Sails at Dawn

    All change aboard the good ship JonathanBourke.Com. In a real case of report­ing yes­ter­days news,we  moved to Syd­ney, Aus­tralia, from Lim­er­ick in Jan­u­ary. All set up here now, so over the com­ing months, you should see more images like the one above, as well as a new look to the website.

    Stay tuned!

    Jonathan

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