GKPE: Serious Photography Thread

joeseph wrote in post #5846665
one I liked from this morning's trucking protest:

I like that! Very cool!

I also like that I was nowhere near Auckland this morning!

joeseph wrote in post #5846665
one I liked from this morning's trucking protest:

Very cool!

And better than all but 1 of the photos posts on the Heralds website by their staff photogs.

I like that too.

Very cool. I like the empty street!

Wonder when the last time it was that quite on a weekday.

akiwi wrote in post #5846349
They said exactly what I was going to say.

DON'T sit on your bum & wait for it to happen coz it won't!

Get a domain and a web gallery where people can look at your photos.

Make a business card with your web address on it, and just say to people, they should look there & if they are interested contact you. It works well. Shows your serious and not a pervy creep (well hoefully makes them think that you ar not )
Just remember if you want it to happen you have to make it happen.

Thanks Peter. I see what you all mean. Making the sort of right image for myself. I know I need to do something. Ive been doing some thinking and research tonight.

I am thinking of putting my favorite / most powerful work on a website. And using flickr for my everyday photos. But the special ones go on my site.

I had a look at smugmug. They have a pro account. But I don't want to spend around $200 on some extra features that I don't need.

The standard account does not allow you to have a domain name. BUT the "power" account does. Plus it has a "right click" copy right thing. Which will add more value to my photography. Plus when I meet and greet potential models etc I can just give them a domain name. Which is cool. Also I have got something to show my company as well. Without sort of feeling ashamed of my flickr site.

http://www.smugmug.com​/price/power-users.mg

That is power user account. I am excited! ill start off with the trial and then ill buy an account. I don't know what domain name yet. But it will have to have "mediation" in it.

Thanks for the advice. My degree is actually in media so I am not completely dumb. But I do need a kick up the ass every time.

Matt

LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY TO WHAT IS BEEN SAID

Your own Domain

Matthew Wong Photography . co. nz

No flicker,smugmug,pbase or any other photo hosting site

How much is your name worth.........dont be known as Matt Wong the cheap scate.
Do it right the first time

I see. I have got no knowledge of how to build these websites or this whole hosting stuff. I just want unlimited space, it to look modern and to have my own domain name.

Is there an NZ site that would build me a site?

So using smugmug is seen as cheap?

Ill do more research and think. Ill come back with something. But yeah I get what you mean Tony.

Mediation wrote in post #5847015
Thanks for the advice. My degree is actually in media so I am not completely dumb. But I do need a kick up the ass every time.

No better lesson than practical.. none of this text book stuff...

Its not that hard to get a website built and host it and whatever... you dont need any of those other crap websites as Tony has said.

Our website was the very first thing to go up.. then we registered here : www.photo.co.nz then for 6 months I worked on the rest.. people slowly found our site without me even pushing it. I also got word out there through friends and family. To this very day I've still not advertised anywhere other than that link above (and most of our hits dont come from there) .....
Why dont you bounce things off your dad... he would have a huge network that surely he could get your foot in the door

joeseph wrote in post #5846665
one I liked from this morning's trucking protest:

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Duncan that is so cool.....

4 reasons....

1. trucks
2. fuel truck (could be)
3. the city
4. an empty road....

that tells the story as a picture... nice work...

maybe one tiny little gripe - a cp filter may have helped the sky a touch... but its only a very minor point...

thanks all - here's a couple more:

"welcome to Queen Street"

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Check out these D700 photos.

http://www.flickr.com/​photos/corradophotogra​phy/

Amazing. Check out that tonal range! so clean.

there's some nice images in there.

Mediation wrote in post #5847268
Check out these D700 photos.

http://www.flickr.com/​photos/corradophotogra​phy/

Amazing. Check out that tonal range! so clean.

Can't be the d700 Matt, it hasn't been released yet.

low orbit wrote in post #5849586
Can't be the d700 Matt, it hasn't been released yet.

Those are from the D700, Some of the photos are a series that has been used in the D700 brochure.

So that means the photographer is using a pre-production model, or they are taken with another camera and passed off as a D700 photo.

Yeah considering no exif data is in the shots I'm dubious.