We have a winner. I have selected a picture by T.J.Asher as the winner of the dramatic portrait contest.
T.J. will get the ticket to go see David Ziser. Congratulations T.J.
I thought I would pick a couple of runners up, so that they could hit their desk, and say “Shoot, I almost won!”
Here are a couple pictures from Rich Yates, and Jorge Rimblas
Thanks everyone for entering. Who knows, maybe I will do this again sometime.
Sorry if you tried to get here and found the site down. It was up last night, but at 10:00 this morning when I tried it was down. Not sure when it when down for sure. I called 1and1 right away, but it took several hours before the site was up again. If it is slow for you this Friday, it is not your imagination. It is dog slow right now. Maybe 1and1 is using less servers while somthing is rebuilt. Frustrating all the same.
I have blogged before about the eye-fi card. Today I am going to use it to post a “live” picture shoot of Kate’s birthday party. The party is from 1-3. I have a couple of pictures up here already, and as I take them today, more will show up.
This is a cool concept. The eye-fi card is a wi-fi SD card with 2gig of memore. I put the card in my camera, and it connects to the eye-fi servers and uploads the pictures. Then the pictures are sent via web service to our web site, and the pictures are automaticly sent to iPhoto as well.
Just wanted to put out a reminder that I am doing a photo contest to win a chance to go see David Ziser for free. Check out this post. I would expect that I will not be flooded with submissions, so get your images in, and win the first contest on this blog.
Check out the tour site for all the things he will cover.
If you want to register, use promo code: ZCWDWC09 and pay just $59.
See you there!
I am not sure how I missed this. There is a plugin for WordPress called ZenPhotoPress. I even had ideas of trying to do this myself. Anyway, what this does, is allow you to get your photo’s from Zen Photo into your wordpress blog. It is built into the visual editor (tiny mce).
I have been working on a gallery with Zen Photo with my Cyberward theme. Still trying to decide what I want to do with it, but I think that I will move to migrate my family photos over to Zen Photo instead of Gallery.
Zen Photo just seems better in my opinion. Gallery (actually Gallery2) seems slow and burdened. Too many things activated and going on by default.¬† Zen Photo has fewer plugins, but that’s ok by me. It seems much easier to hack on too. I guess now I just need to time to do this.
I briefly mentioned David Ziser’s tour before, and that I have already booked my seat, but I thought I would tell you a little bit more. Why you say? Three reasons: I want to see you go because David is an amazing photographer with a ton of information he is willing to share with you. Two, because I have a discount code for you, and three, because I am running my first contest, with the prize being a seat at the big show.
I forget now how I stumbled upon digital pro talk, David’s blog. I hadn’t done any weddings, and it looked like he was a wedding photographer, and I was ready to move along, but I decided to read a couple of posts. Well, I have been back many many times to read and reread his posts. He has so many¬† interesting things to say about portraits, lighting, gear, and the business of photography, that there is something there for everyone whether or not they ever shoot a wedding.
It looks like his digital wake up tour will have a ton of useful information.  What might you learn? This is from the tour site:
Your still on the fence? How about all of this stuff you will get :
David is bringing the event to 58 cities across the US, including the Minneapolis event September 16. I’ll be there. If you don’t win the contest, David has given me a discount code that you can use to get $20 off the event. Enter code:¬† ZCWDWC09 ( last digits are zero nine) on the registration page, and you will receive a $20 discount. Price will be only $59 after the discount.
Want to enter the contest and go free? Ok, the contest will be me arbitrarily picking the most dramatic portrait from the photo’s submitted to the Cyberward flickr group.
The contest will run until April 11 at @ midnight (Saturday). I will choose on Sunday, and email the winner and post the winning picture on April 13 (Monday)
Good luck, and see you in September at DWC09!
Update:moved the contest end back into April (again) and added the registration code
Our huge (yes I giggled) community now has a flickr group. Drop by and join a discussion, or add your photo’s to the group pool.
Why do we have a group you ask. Well, I needed a group for a contest… more to follow.
I just enabled the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress by Alex King. This plugin allows your blog to notify twitter of posts, and display latest posts in a widget. I don’t have it turned on, but you can also have it create a post for each tweet, or create daily or weekly digests. I don’t figure I need those.
I feel like I haven’t had time to get anything up on the blog for awhile. I have several things I am trying to get finished, so instead of telling you what I do have, I will tell you what I will have.
Here is another plugin, Lameda, that uses the exif data that comes from the images as uploaded into WordPress. Lets take a picture:
Here is the exif data when you put this tag in your post: [lameda_exif id=556]
The thing with this, is you still have to go into the post html and find out what the wordpress id of the image is. Still a bit of a pain. I like that it is pulling this from wordpress. Looks like wordpress stores this in the post_metadata table in an entry about the image. Not all data is saved, just some of the more basic ones like those shown. We just need a more automated, and visually appealing way to show it.