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Do’s and Don’ts in Photo Blogging
10 Comments | Posted by Kelvin Servigon in Blogging Resources, Thoughts
Photo Blogging 101 | Kelvinonian Ideas 2.0
While preparing for my speaking engagement for Blog World Philippines 2010, I managed to create some do’s and don’ts in photo blogging. I created this to remind newbie bloggers who are about to enter the photo blogging world that there are blogging etiquettes that they need to follow. And these reminders are focused on our blog’s reader convenience.
So, here are the Do’s and Don’ts in Photo Blogging:
Do’s…
- Take pictures frequently – of course, pictures are your main content of your blog. It is the basic ingredient to build a photo blog. It is the most important of all because it is the essence of a blog being called a “photo blog”. So, you need to take pictures frequently so you’ll have something to post.
- Add watermark on every photo - the world wide web is a huge place, meaning, there are lots of people who may visit your blog. And some of your visitors may have some evil minds, grabbing your photos without any permissions, and worst, use it for commercial use. So one of the best thing you can do to prevent the stealing of your precious pictures is to put watermarks on it. Watermark is your name or trademark or brand name that is written in your photos. Like mine, I put © Kelvin Servigon | Photography in my pictures before publishing them online.
Don’ts…
- Do not add too much photos in a single post - because some of your readers may still have slow internet speeds. So if you put (for example) 10 pictures in a single post, and the reader has a dial-up connection only, then the reader needs almost 5 minutes just to see your pictures. 3-5 pictures in a post is recommended.
- Do not post photos in a very high-resolution quality – so you obeyed the first “don’ts”. You put only 3 photos in a single post, but then, the size of every photo was so huge because you didn’t compress it at all! Like what I said, some of our readers have still slow internet speeds so we need to consider them. And the nice thing that we can do about it is to compress our photos into smallest possible size before posting it on our blogs.
You got more do’s and don’ts in photo blogging? Share it with us by posting it in the comment section.
10 Comments for Do’s and Don’ts in Photo Blogging
dimaks | March 15, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Maniniyot | March 17, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Hi, thank you for this do’s and dont’s. I have just created my brand new photoblog. Try to check on it and I hope you can provide me some feedbacks. Thanks!
sheric_manzon | June 27, 2010 at 3:03 pm
very nice tips especially to all the newbies out there. goodluck and more blogs to come!
reiearth | July 17, 2010 at 2:24 pm
you can just get the medium size code in flickr… if your a photographer.. better upload them in flickr for sharing and blogging…and tweeting
reiearth´s last blog ..Allure 2 – Glamour Photography workshop 
Kelvin Servigon Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Very nice suggestion! But right now, I still prefer uploading it on my own webhosting account. 
Thanks reiearth!
How about providing thumbnails first and not the full photos directly? This way, a reader has an option to take a look at the full-size version if he is interested. Otherwise, a photo blog poster can at least use image pre-loader script.
For the don’ts, i think, if you are the kind of photo blogger who do image processing a lot, then do’nt over-process.
Great tips here!
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Kelvin Servigon Reply:
March 15th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Hm, your so right especially in the over doing the post-processing. Some photographers nga sobrang mag post-process ng mga pictures nila kaya minsan hindi na natural. Anyway that’s a style naman. hehe. But again, you’re right.
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