[Seph]

you know how it is.. one day your just sitting there and feel like putting on a Darth Vadar helmet, setting up the fashion grey back drop, using your calumet strib box.. and just... float around n stuff.....
yeah..we have all been there...

http://sephphoto.com...radfloating.jpg

[StarRockerX]

You're like... FLOATING xD

[Scott]

Seph, on Apr 28 2010, 11:21 AM, said:

http://sephphoto.com...radfloating.jpg

Two photos and Photoshop or something else?

[Voxx]

Scott, on Apr 28 2010, 01:07 PM, said:

Two photos and Photoshop or something else?

No, duuuude. He can FLOAT! Like Darkrai.

Sorry StarRocker for derailing your thread ;__; I apologize. If I was a good photographer I'd show up to the gathering but I have a kodak easyshare...not the best lol

[DarkOne]

Photographer and amature model here, too.



www.dazzlecostumes.com

Cosplay: http://www.cosplay.com/member/126247/
Photography: http://www.cosplay.com/member/195685/

[StarRockerX]

@Ska- It's all good :3 I think with acen so close it's hard not to be off topic.
Although today i found out i passed my classes!!
And you don't have to be a good photographer.
Just have an admiration for it :3

@Darkone

WELCOME!! ON page 6 there was a schedule for our possible meet ups.
They aren't manditory or anything.

Just alot of options that us busy bees can hopefully get to. :3

and yeah!! I LOve models!!

They make love to my camera :3

[DarkOne]

Awesome.
Acen ATM is a very full weekend for me.

But I will definitally try to stop by!

[StarRockerX]

@Darkone

Well there are alot of times we can see you!!

So most definately you will see at least a few of us once! :3

[aerialist]

@DarkONE

oh snap! it's that Super Girl!! Have I got the song for you =P

[StarRockerX]

I just realized that I'm actually becoming more of a stand alone photographer!

Have some photoshoots lined up! :3

So excited can't think straight!!

[DarkOne]

[stomptoMYbeat]

I'll be there with my Nikon D40 and the standard 18-55mm lens as well as my 55-200mm. It's a lower-end DSLR, but it gets the job done. This camera is like my child. :]

[StarRockerX]

Ha Awesome!

Hope to see you there :3

[Scott]

*bump*

Yay for more photographers coming the the meetups!

http://scottjwaldron.com/

My new photography site. Only took a few days. The most time consuming part was trying to find some sample photos.

[StarRockerX]

Scott, on May 4 2010, 12:45 PM, said:

*bump*

Yay for more photographers coming the the meetups!

http://scottjwaldron.com/

My new photography site. Only took a few days. The most time consuming part was trying to find some sample photos.

Awww such a lovely website :3

i really gotta buckle down and get one >.<

that can be my summer project.

[Scott]

Thanks. I'm far from a graphic artist, but I can manage with enough time.

The design matches my business cards, although the cards I had printed don't have this new site on them (but I link to the new site from the sites on the cards).

StarRockerX, on May 4 2010, 12:53 PM, said:

Awww such a lovely website :3

i really gotta buckle down and get one >.<

that can be my summer project.

Good luck. I'm sure you could find some website builder options out there, try your hand at learning about open-source stuff like Wordpress, or have someone make/host it for you. The last option would probably be expensive though.

[KyleMistry]

HTML, CSS, and PHP are really all you need to code a good portfolio site, along with some design skills and a bit of creativity. Can do that in Photoshop and Notepad/TextEdit if you need to!

Or flickr. flickr's nice too.

Reminds me, I have to get my photography onto my website, haven't updated it since February...last year...

[StarRockerX]

Scott, on May 4 2010, 01:49 PM, said:

Good luck. I'm sure you could find some website builder options out there, try your hand at learning about open-source stuff like Wordpress, or have someone make/host it for you. The last option would probably be expensive though.

Yeah i'll have to find something that works for me visually and for a budget.

I already made my logo i just have to set it in stone.

After acen im going to make a book.
I got a coupon off of a hightly good book company :3

LOL and i still have to get bussiness cards.

the best i got are my bookmarks that i'll be handing out to people as i take their picture. :3

[Scott]

KyleMistry, on May 4 2010, 01:57 PM, said:

HTML, CSS, and PHP are really all you need to code a good portfolio site, along with some design skills and a bit of creativity.

The way you wrote that message, you make it sound like HTML, CSS, Graphic Design, and PHP is easy for anyone. At least with you and me for example, I assume we've both been writing computer software/doing graphic design for many years. Think of it from the perspective of someone who have never seen programming code before (most of the general public). That's a large amount of skills they need built up before they realistically can do it. Not that anyone can't do it, it's all dependent on how much effort they want to put into accomplishing their goals. Way back ( ), in my first years of college I was working as a student worker in computer labs. Even HTML was a very foreign concept to many of the students I helped out.

This post has been edited by Scott: 04 May 2010 - 01:25 PM

[StarRockerX]

Can't say im good at all of that type of stuff.

I use to make layouts for my old myspace, but that was all done by example.

And it only works for version 1.0
not that required crap they are forcing open people. LOL

[Scott]

StarRockerX, on May 4 2010, 02:22 PM, said:

Can't say im good at all of that type of stuff.

I use to make layouts for my old myspace, but that was all done by example.

And it only works for version 1.0
not that required crap they are forcing open people. LOL

If you can do that, you should currently be able to setup a wordpress site with some custom visual modifications. There will be some learning involved though.

The paid version of Wordpress ( http://en.wordpress.com/products/ ) would probably be a good match in ease of modification and simplicity, so you don't have to deal with web-hosting directly.

[StarRockerX]

Ha. Learning isn't my strong suit.

But i'll definatelly check it out. :'O

it would be nice to have a website before i graduate, LOL

[Scott]

StarRockerX, on May 4 2010, 02:34 PM, said:

Ha. Learning isn't my strong suit.

But i'll definatelly check it out. :'O

it would be nice to have a website before i graduate, LOL

I take my suggestion back. It doesn't look like the hosted version at wordpress.com can have custom themes, which would make it a lot less flexible. It would not hurt trying the free version and seeing though.

This post has been edited by Scott: 04 May 2010 - 01:43 PM

[StarRockerX]

@ Scott. - Yeah true.
Also there were some suggestions from classmates and other photographers about websites.

i should probally look through my notes.

the main important is that i also pick out my url.

so that no one else takes it.

so far so good. :3

[fotaku07]

Scott, on May 4 2010, 12:45 PM, said:

http://scottjwaldron.com/

Nice site! I really like it.. simple and to the point. Also, I'm quite jealous of your contact form. I can never figure out how to make those.

KyleMistry, on May 4 2010, 01:57 PM, said:

HTML, CSS, and PHP are really all you need to code a good portfolio site, along with some design skills and a bit of creativity. Can do that in Photoshop and Notepad/TextEdit if you need to!

Wooo, glad you didn't say Flash. Nothing like shooting oneself in the "SEO foot". I really got to get my galleries in html so they rank better in google. :\

StarRockerX, on May 4 2010, 01:58 PM, said:

Yeah i'll have to find something that works for me visually and for a budget.

Hosting is getting pretty cheap. Also, there's some really simple photographer sites I've seen that don't use much coding at all and if you have photoshop or lightroom you can always pump out galleries through them. (Might not be the most original but least it doesn't take any coding knowledge.) Here's a simple site Ryanklos.com who uses a free viewer for his photos.

[Scott]

fotaku07, on May 4 2010, 06:38 PM, said:

Nice site! I really like it.. simple and to the point. Also, I'm quite jealous of your contact form. I can never figure out how to make those.

If your backend is Wordpress, there are plug-ins available. I use one called "Contact Form 7" http://contactform7.com/
It works great without any programming effort on my part.

Otherwise, it's not too difficult to write up a PHP script to email message through a web server.

fotaku07, on May 4 2010, 06:38 PM, said:

Wooo, glad you didn't say Flash. Nothing like shooting oneself in the "SEO foot". I really got to get my galleries in html so they rank better in google. :\

Now that HTML 5 is starting to get some traction, I'll be very glad to see Flash go away.

[Seph]

fotaku07, on May 4 2010, 06:38 PM, said:

Wooo, glad you didn't say Flash. Nothing like shooting oneself in the "SEO foot". I really got to get my galleries in html so they rank better in google. :\

nope... google has been able to read flash for years...
My website is flash.. if you google search
"chicago lingerie photographer" im on the first page... atleast on the computers ive checked it on... and i dont even SEO much at all...

also.. if you google "chicago wedding photographer" more than a handful of photography sites are flash on the top rankings..

[StarRockerX]

You guys sure are throwing back some big words. xD

But yes i'll have to check that site late fotaku!!

THANKS :3

All of this advice will be most helpful. LOL

[tfcreate]

Seph, on Apr 28 2010, 11:21 AM, said:

you know how it is.. one day your just sitting there and feel like putting on a Darth Vadar helmet, setting up the fashion grey back drop, using your calumet strib box.. and just... float around n stuff.....
yeah..we have all been there...

http://sephphoto.com...radfloating.jpg

And I thought you renounced your Jedi Powers....

[Scott]

Seph, on May 4 2010, 10:56 PM, said:

nope... google has been able to read flash for years...
My website is flash.. if you google search
"chicago lingerie photographer" im on the first page... atleast on the computers ive checked it on... and i dont even SEO much at all...

also.. if you google "chicago wedding photographer" more than a handful of photography sites are flash on the top rankings..

That does look like it's pulling text directly from the flash.

On Google it shows: "Seph Victor Mercado, Chicago model photographer for fashion, glamour, boudior, lingerie and fine art nude photography. Born and raised in the Illinois, ..." which is inside the flash content and not in HTML.

All of your flash pages on the site result in one entry on Google. All of the other cached data on google is from the blog part of the site.

Realistically, your flash site is 95% images anyways, so I don't think it matters much. I'm sure the blog helps boost the rank as it provides a lot more content for Google to parse. Your flash pages would be helped by adding more page specific text though.

This post has been edited by Scott: 04 May 2010 - 10:54 PM