Tag: Blog

  • Featured User, Kate Williams: Weddings, Portraits and Double Exposure

    Featured User, Kate Williams: Weddings, Portraits and Double Exposure

    Wedding Photography is a tough business. You collaborate with people who are expecting to see passion and love reflected in your work, people who want to see every precious moment captured beautifully. There are no do-overs on wedding day, and the pressure can be enormous. Kate Williams, who works primarily a wedding photographer but also does stunning portraiture,…

  • Featured User: Award-Winning Photojournalist William Thomas Cain

    Featured User: Award-Winning Photojournalist William Thomas Cain

    Being a photojournalist means much more than taking pictures for newspapers. It’s about capturing the world’s people, cultures, conflicts, and occurrences. With a single snap, a moment in the present becomes a documentation of the past that will tell a real-life story not just in current events, but for future generations down the line. Graph…

  • Six Common Photography Site Failures and How to Avoid Them

    Six Common Photography Site Failures and How to Avoid Them

    It’s fairly easy to create a website these days – a beginner’s skill set and a little bit of patience is really all it takes. The problem is that it’s equally easy to create a bad website, the definition of bad ranging from merely ineffective to downright detrimental. There are roughly 1 billion websites on…

  • QUA WordPress Theme Now Available on WordPress.com

    QUA WordPress Theme Now Available on WordPress.com

    We’re excited to share that the QUA WordPress theme is now available on WordPress.com. Our friends at Automattic added the theme to their library for WordPress users to build their portfolio, blog or digital magazine with. Hosted vs. Self-Hosted Versions of QUA There are two versions of QUA: The version that you get access to when you…

  • Meet Shibui: A Free Minimalist Portfolio Theme with Masonry Layouts and More

    Meet Shibui: A Free Minimalist Portfolio Theme with Masonry Layouts and More

    Did you know that you can create a portfolio website for your photography with no budget and no coding skills? Put what you thought was your web dev budget toward business cards or some new gear and build yourself the beautiful website you’ve always wanted with Shibui, a new free WordPress theme for creatives. Big…

  • Sell Media + Stock Photography: Featured User Adrian Naik Shows Us How It’s Done

    Sell Media + Stock Photography: Featured User Adrian Naik Shows Us How It’s Done

    Have you ever thought of starting your own stock photography website? It may sound like a wild idea, but it’s actually just the next step up from selling your photos online. Sure, it takes some work. But with the right tools, you can experience the excitement of launching and building a business. Meet our friend Adrian…

  • 10 Critical Considerations Before Changing Themes in WordPress [Checklist]

    10 Critical Considerations Before Changing Themes in WordPress [Checklist]

    Your website’s visual impact is important – especially in visually driven niches like photography. Thankfully the WordPress community offers thousands of different website designs for you to choose from. With so many options, you can easily pick and choose to meet your needs, and you can always change themes later on. Most people eventually do just that;…

  • Searching For a Free WordPress Theme? Use This Checklist.

    Searching For a Free WordPress Theme? Use This Checklist.

    WordPress has swathes of free themes to choose from. That’s a boon for your photography business, because it gives you a lot of visual choices even if you’re on a tight budget. And while it’s true that some free themes can be real stinkers, it’s also true that there really are tons of great designs that you…

  • Introducing the QUA WordPress Theme: Empowerment to Creatives

    Introducing the QUA WordPress Theme: Empowerment to Creatives

    Finding the right website template for your specific area of creative expertise can be difficult. Which layouts are best for photographers and artists? Which are made more for designers? What about writers? Our new QUA WordPress theme eliminates all uncertainty. If you’re creative and want a website that reflects your passion, QUA is for you. Use it to…

  • Sell Media: See How Featured User Nate Hart Sells His Photography Online

    Sell Media: See How Featured User Nate Hart Sells His Photography Online

    If there’s a better feeling for a photographer than capturing the perfect image, it could very well be selling a print of that image online. It’s fulfilling when someone who has never met you visits your website, connects with your work and makes a purchase. Plus, it enables you to make a career out of your…