No, But I Can Learn
Do you know how to load a roll of film? Work a light meter? Edit slides on a light table? Scan film? Color correct scans? Track a photo inventory? Submit photos to clients? Work with a stock agency? Make prints? Pack a camera bag? Ship equipment? Set up lights? Scout a location? Drive on the...
Why You Should Not Be SEOing Your Website
If you have an active blog for your photography business, chances are you’ve read all you can about SEO. If you’re going to write day after day to try and attract new clientele, you might as well make sure the search engines love it, right? And while I agree SEO may still have a place...
10 WordPress Themes Perfect For Today’s Photographer
Do your New Year’s goals include building a new website? If so, WordPress is the perfect option for you. Dig Deeper: The 10 Advantages of WordPress For Designing Your Photography Site And while WordPress offers a ton of options to help you customize and create content to reach out to your clientele, it’s also great...
5 Tips To Make You Better At Blogging
I was talking with a friend this week who started asking me about my blogging habits. She was wondering how I create new content almost every day, and how I can stay with it month after month. Do I really have that much to say, or am I just filling up my site with content?...
Famous Photos Seen Through Instagram Filters
What would famous photographs look like if the photographers who created them had been using Instagram? That’s a question that’s answered by Mastergram, a site that takes the work of renowned photographers and passes them through Instagram ...
5 Blogging Mistakes That Could Cost You Your Business
Everyone is a blogger nowadays and with good reason. Because small business owners know the importance of being online, many look for the least expensive route to get there. And that often leads them into the blogging realm. It’s easy. It’s affordable. Why not? Yet just because something is easy and affordable isn’t a reason...
planet5D Top 10 List! Top 10 posts from first 6 months of 2011
Every now and then, it is good to look back to see what has been on the minds of our readers… so here’s a look at the Top 10 posts from first 6 months of 2011 Top 10 List Incredible “3D” motion from Canon Rebel T2i/550D stills UPDATED: WINNER! Indie movie shot on Canon HDSLR...
The Invisible Camera
This has to be the most intriguing camera I have seen for some while; ever seen, probably! It looks plain and simple (and in a way that is exactly what it is) but the science behind it is amazing. I am worried that if I watch the video one more time I am going to...
Bloggers – 6 Reasons You Should Use Pretty Link Pro on Your WordPress Blog
Tweet For all you bloggers out there, you probably have heard me talk about it before, but we use Pretty Link Pro and tho we had a similar blog post like this before, the videos that we had done were lost and we needed to update things anyway… so here’s an updated post on why...
Pretty Link Pro prettyBar – you hate it, but here’s why it helps branding
Tweet Many of you know that we love the Pretty Link Pro plugin for WordPress and use it on the planet5D blog – but every now and then we get a complaint about the “pretty bar” that we place on some of our external (non planet5D) links – we thought we’d put together a demonstration...
How to Scout Locations for Photo & Video: Part 3 – Gear & Planning
[Howdy, Scott here again. This is the third of a three part series on the steps I take when location scouting as Chase's lead assistant. In the first two posts we discussed virtual scouting and weather. Now we've done everything that we can do from a desk and it's time to put the rubber to...
