Creating great glamour photography is more involved than simply finding a beautiful model. Any glamour photographer will tell you confidence is only one quality of the glamour model. The key to great glamour photography is capturing the beauty of the model but to show their vulnerable side as well. Great supermodels have the ability to let the viewer in, to make themselves appear beautiful, but also to display a sense of approachability. Check out these links for great examples of glamour photography.

Adept Glamour Photography

Mandarich Models

Digital Willy’s Glamour Photography

Danny Steyn

Hakan Photography

Creative Edge

15 Spectacular Lightning Images that are sure to make you grab your tripod and poncho and brave the elements. Featured at dPS Digital Photography School, these awesome lightning photos combine all the photographic elements needed for great weather photography; composition, proper exposure, and perfect timing.

Great lightning photography does require planning. Since weather is often unpredictable, the capable weather photographer must have his photo kit packed and ready to go at all times. In addition, pre-planning of the location you wish to document is essential. Scout out locations and compositions (including optimum focal lengths) during good weather, and record this data in a handy tablet.

By following these simple tips, you will be prepared to capture your award winning pictures when the next lightning storm heads your way.

Generating targeted traffic is the goal of most (if not all) website owners. As I have tried to increase traffic on this site, I have used a number of different strategies, from watching content discussed, actively engage in discussions, to working on the overall design of the site. However, no single item has more impact on building traffic than providing content your viewers want to see.

The release of Photoblog Randomizer 1.o yesterday afternoon has more than doubled our normal traffic overnight! Photoblog Randomizer 1.o is a new way I have created to display photoblogs on this site. Instead of having visitors leave the site or create a new window, each photoblog can now be pulled up on the same page without leaving. Basically, you are viewing a website within a webpage. In addition, all the functions of the displayed website are operational, i.e., surfing through their site, leaving comments, etc. This was a simple solution in retaining viewers on this site to view our other interesting content.

As always, content is king. Thank you for the feedback emails on our newest feature. While I am actively working to improve the Photoblog Randomizer, please give it a try and let me you about your experiences.

The Photoblog Randomizer 1.o is finally here! After several weeks of hair pulling and paper throwing, I have created a new and exciting way of viewing our photoblogs; my best solution to date.

When I initially started this blog, my first idea was to create a Photoblog list; which basically features blog links in a table format. This is okay if you are interested in just looking to see if you or your buddy made the list, however, it does lack the graphic impact I was looking for.

Next up, the SnapShots alternative. SnapShots is a great plug-in which allows the viewer to see a ’snapshot’ of the website while mousing over the link….interesting, but many viewers wrote to complain that it was a bit distracting. I like this application and having ruled out using it in a different capacity later on.

Tonight, I put the final touches on the Photoblog Randomizer 1.o and would like to explain how this innovation works. As the name implies, the Photoblog Randomizer 1.o is a simple solution to randomly display my list of favorite photoblogs. When the “ILovePhotoblogs Randomizer” button, located near the top of the page is pressed, a javascript randomly selects and displays a photoblog from my current list. Press the button again and another photoblog is presented, and on and on and on. I was looking for a solution to dynamically display this content without having the viewer leave my site…the truth is out. My solution…. to display a webpage within a webpage, by combining a random webpage javascript generator within an iframe for content display. Since I could not get Wordpress to play nicely with my added HTML code for the Photoblog Randomizer 1.o, I decided to create a page in plain ‘ol HTML.

After I got completed the scripting, and verified that it functioned with a variety of browsers, i.e., Safari, IE7, Firefox, and Flock, I only needed to add a static link in a Wordpress header.

Hope you find this tool enjoyable to use. If you have any feedback, I’d love to hear it.

I love the city of San Francisco. From it’s picturesque landscape and beautiful architecture, to the enormous arts community and yes, fine food, San Francisco is a must see for any photographer or traveler. Check out great photos of San Francisco by visiting Quirky San Francisco, the online portfolio of photographer Randy Schroeder. (self site review user, thanks!)

San Francisco is not a normal city. Because of our colorful past with the gold rush, SF draws a unique collection of people, who often create businesses that reflect their unique spirit. I call it quirky and San Fran is definitely filled with quirky things to see and do, AND, if you’re looking for free photos to share with friends or add to your blog or Web site, they’re available for the asking. It might be nice to give me credit for the photo, in trade for the free photos … and a link to the site would be great too.