Introducing a brand new eBook from Craft & Vision

Your Creative Mix: Growing Your Photography Business Through Creativity & Collaboration by Corwin Hiebert

Your Creative Mix takes an in-depth look at the value of growing your passion for art, honing your creative skills, and finding new ways to connect and share with likeminded people as a way to grow your photography business. This eBook bridges the gap between creativity and commerce. It focuses on the unique business and marketing challenges faced by emerging and established vocational photographers. It provides new insights and ideas on how to generate demand for your photographs and for your creative services without employing cheap tricks or expensive advertising efforts. Through case studies, interviews, featured projects, and proven business practices you’ll learn how to attract fans, followers, and clients to your unique vision.

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For the first four days only, if you use the promotional code MIX4 when you checkout, you can have the PDF version of Extreme Perspectives for only $4 OR use the code MIX20 to get 20% off when you buy 5 or more PDF ebooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST July 23, 2011. Click here to visit Craft & Vision

Introducing a brand new eBook from Craft & Vision

Extreme Perspectives: An Introduction to Mountain Photography by Alexandre Buisse

If you’re into sports and outdoor photography then this eBook is a must read for you. But if that’s not your cup of tea then it’s still worth reading just to see the glorious images from some amazing places that you’ll probably never get to see otherwise!

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Although it’s focussed on photography at or near the peaks of some of the worlds highest mountains, there’s plenty of great information in this book to help any photographer get better images from different perspectives than they normally get. It’s important to change things up every once in awhile and to try to create images that are different than what “just anyone” can get, or more importantly, different than others will even bother to try to get.

In this book Alexandre starts off with a few pages to walk you through his thinking on gear selection and developing your own vision. But the best part is in the middle! There are pages and pages of stunning images from his collection with some very specific points about he, and why, he created each images. This stuff is absolute Gold, and it is all very applicable to any form of photography. My favorite part is when he talks about exactly what he was thinking as he created the images.

Special Offer on eBooks

For the first four days only, if you use the promotional code EXTREME4 when you checkout, you can have the PDF version of Extreme Perspectives for only $4 OR use the code EXTREME20 to get 20% off when you buy 5 or more PDF ebooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST May 15, 2011. Click here to visit Craft & Vision

Photoshelter Promo Code: SE5PH32Y9C

I’ve had an account at Photoshelter for many years that I use to sell stock photography images. If you’re interested you can check out my collection of Landscape and Wildlife Photos from the Canadian Rocky Mountains and Prairies at www.Sean-Phillips.com. PhotoShelter is a great service that handles online sales, advertising, and high resolution file distribution. It’s a great way to attract new clients and it throws lots of Google juice towards my photography collection.

I just realized that Photoshelter has a referral system, and that can help both of us! If you’re planning to sign up with Photoshelter you can save some money by using this referral code. I will get a small kickback too, but the important thing is that you can save $5 to $30 on your Photoshelter seller account.

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You can also just enter code SE5PH32Y9C when you sign up.

The newest eBook release from David Duchemin (called Vision is Better) is simply stellar. This is a compilation of 50 articles from his website that have been rewritten and attached to some beautiful images that illustrate the point. If you’ve never read David’s writing before, now is the time to start. If you have read his stuff before, this is a fantastic opportunity to go back and read (or reread) some of the best and most poignant articles that he has presented in the past.

David’s motto “Gear is Good, Vision is Better” is very easy to understand and to agree with, but it’s much harder to implement. For me it’s one of those things that I have to pound into my brain over and over again. Going through these articles reminded me how brilliant and how important this thought is, and I urge you to read this book.

The really great news is that the book is very inexpensive at only $5. It gets better though because there is a 20% discount available if you buy the new book between now and midnight on May 4th. If you use the promotional code VISION4 when you checkout then you can have “Vision is Better” for only $4, OR use the code VISION20 to get 20% off when you buy 5 or more books from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST MAY 4, 2010.

I recently realized that I had forgotten to change the copyright notice on some of my websites. I had changed it on all of my still and video cameras and in the metadata fields for Breeze Downloader Pro and Adobe Lightroom; I had even changed it on some of my websites. But somehow I missed a couple.

Instead of just fixing it now for the sites that I missed in January, I wrote some Javascript code to do it automatically based on the year. You can see the resulting text in the Copyright Notice for this site at the bottom of the right sidebar.

Here’s what the code looks like. Note that it automatically updates the year and it links to your email address from your name (in a method very unfriendly to spam harvesters). If you want to use it simply copy and paste into a widget or into your wordpress header or footer and it will start displaying.

NOTE – You must to update the 3 “var” fields to ensure that the code uses your own Name and Email address.

If you want to use this code in a post or a page then it will be much more difficult to make it work. You will have to refer to the WordPress Codex for information on how to use Javascript in a post or a page.