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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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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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