Linkage

• Brian Kaldorf’s Studio Website
• Brian Kaldorf’s Flickr Photostream

Well have you ever thought about optimizing your photos for search?

Image optimization can be a huge source of traffic! Professional Photographers listen up; having good, clear, medium-sized photos of yours getting indexed in the Image Searches of Google, Yahoo, and Bing is a good move for getting more clients or sales. Here are a few tips for doing just that.

1. Save AS! Save AS! Save AS! When you’re saving your photo inside Photoshop don’t ever “save for web”. Why? Cause it strips meta data. So useing “Save As” in Photoshop is the first step.
2. Meta-data: JPGs have the ability to store meta-data that is keywords, description, and the rest of the EXIF meta data from your camera.
3. When Saving (save as), your file name needs to be descriptive with keywords that you’re looking to get indexed for in the image search of the major search engines.

For this photo I am going after these top 3 keywords or phrases. Who/What, Where, and When are the best descriptive terms to go after for image search optimization or anything for that matter. Using these keywords when you embed your image in the alt tag is also essential for optimizing photos for search.

Who: Sarah Austin, Derek Steen
Where: New Media Expo
When: 2008

My file name for the image is “sarah-austin-derek-steen-new-media-expo-2008.jpg” in a few days when you search for “sarah austin derek steen” this photo will come up on the first page results in the image sections of google yahoo and bing.

After I got off work I rushed up there and picked it up and this is one of the first photos I took with it. My Friend Amy, names her cameras. So I thought about it and decided to name my new camera after her cause with out her telling me about it, I wouldn’t have gotten it.

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So my new Canon 30d is named Amelia. Again, Thank you Amy.
This Photo on Flickr

Linkage

Buy Photos From Mike Stimpson @ RedBubble
Buy Photos From Mike Stimpson @ Imagekind

• “To the Photograview Readers & Subscribers I am deeply sorry for no new content.”

I’m working on sorting out my life and time to get interviews done. Along with the Video Podcast show with Mr. DJsteen.

On to Today’s Photo… I call it the Intense Stare. I shot it at my friend’s Crazy House. The Guy is the one who did all the art on the walls & the girl is his love, muse, friend & creative partner.

Once again I’m sorry for the lack of updates. I will make sure we have new content for you to look and read each week.

I took my friend and model, Margot, down to Luna Park in Sydney with a collection of old outfits, and set up the shots to look like photographs one would see in Harper’s BAZAAR. I did this by previously browsing through the magazine and noting the way the models are positioned, as well as the attention to detail in the foreground and background of the photographs.

I used my 50mm f/1.8 lens (a prime lens) at f/2.5 to take this shot; resulting in Margot’s face being sharp while the background fades into blur. Thus taking the viewers focus in the shot.

I’ve taken a lot of portraits before, but this would have been one of the more exciting photoshoots I’ve done; the resulting photographs are among my favourites. I hope you enjoy.

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Linkage

• Derek’s Flickr Photostream
• HB Photo Set
• Margot’s Myspace

Photograview.com/photoblog

I’m changing the Photo Review section to a Photo Blog. The permalinks will be changing so this is the official warning.

I’m going to be using the “Photo Blog” section as site Announcements and a Photo Blog. Again, I’m going to be asking Photographers from our Flickr Group to share one of their photos with us. 

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Linkage:

• This photo on Flickr
• Flickr’s Explore List for August 6th, 2008
• This photo on a Black Background

I hope everyone likes the new change to the Photo Review as it’s being renamed to Photo Blog.