Blog on Photoblogs

Michael Grecco’s book Lighting and the Dramatic portrait should be on every serious photographer’s bookshelf.

If you’re using Adobe Lightroom, and Flickr, you need to have the Flickr Export Plugin.

If you haven’t already discovered Alltop, I would suggest that you check it out right now! In particular make sure you check out the photography page. It’s a great centralized resource where you can find information from some of the best photography related sites out there.

Of Note: Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology Ventures, the author of The Art of the Start (one of my favourite books) is involved in the project.

In my opinion a photoblog is probably one of the hardest types of sites to monetize on the entire Internet. Why do I think that? It’s quite simple really, I would wager that the majority of visitors to your photoblog are other photographers just like yourself. And most likely they are more interested in seeing what you’re doing and how you’re doing it, rather than purchasing any of your work. That’s not to say that other photographers will never buy any of your work, but they are a much harder sell than a motivated customer. Another thing that makes monetizing a photo blog difficult is the fact that everyone now has a relatively capable DSLR, which has resulted in the explosion in the number of photo blogs that are available on the Internet. That means that your visitors have a lot of choices out there so your photography (and blog) had better be top-notch, otherwise the visitors that you do get are going to shift their eyes elsewhere very quickly.

Choosing a photoblog platform is one of the most important decisions a new photoblogger can make. Getting it right the first time is critical.