SmugMug WPPI Slumber Party – Jarvie Window Experience
Written on March 10, 2010 Posted in Jarvie Window, Photo Meetups
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Jarvie window at the SmugMug booth – WPPI day 2
Written on March 9, 2010 Posted in Jarvie Window, Photo Meetups
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In the past I’ve stated that there are 3 areas in the process of creating a good end result in photography.
- 1. Take good pictures
- 2. Pick good pictures
- 3. Edit good pictures
Help with #2
Sometimes #2 can be the hardest
(assuming the talent for #1 and #3 has been well instilled in the photographer)
So today I enlist your services, a sort of crowd sourcing.
So SmuMug has released a feature I’ve wanted for a long time ever since David Terry told me about the idea.
(BTW happy birthday David)
I’ve been waiting for a version of coupons that would ease the way to let the clients choose their pictures straight from the site.
Like a little shopping spree. But allow me to still be in control of the end result.
As a photographer I want to focus more of my time on creating better pictures and not spending so much time picking pictures and dabbling in business things and I would hope my customers would appreciate this.
I also like the fact that it all still goes through me when they select pictures, and I’m sure that’s what the customer hopes for as well…
I love their print delay feature… having a few days to review their order and enhance the pictures before they’re sent to the printer is perfect.
There are 4 types of SmugMug coupons.
Percent off
Dollar amount off
At Cost
Print Credit (Gift Card)
I’m mostly interested in the last of these… which is also probably the most complicated type.
“Print Credit – This functions just like a gift card. If a customer does not use it up in an order, the balance will remain to use on future orders. You can optionally set a start and end date for its use.”
So thanks for the coupons SmugMug and I hope my customers love the idea as much as I do and look forward to incorporation of coupons in 2010 packages.
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Now for the questions and requests:
I signed up for SmugMug Apr 2nd 2008 – And this is my review
(200K+ pictures and 1000Gbs later)
Read the FULL long and Intensive review after the jump
What Am I Introducing
So we’re not really introducing video to cameras,
But we are itroducing video to this blog.
And I am introducing the D300s
Since now I own a camera that does video it makes it so easy to record video, upload to smugmug and imbed that video here on this blog.
My disclaimers are:
This is the first video on my blog, my first video I’ve recorded for a blog. So I did several takes because I wasn’t about to spend the time to edit and splice stuff.
But I still made verbal mistakes and since I only have owned the camera for a few hours I still don’t have a handle on the focusing.
I also did hand hold it…
So basically don’t get too after me about the quality of filming.
But I do aim and can promise I will get much better.
D300s
Rundown on new notable features.
- Video
- 7 frames per second without grip
- faster access to live view – 2 button clicks to start recording
- on camera mic and plug in for external mic
- better d-lighting
- quite mode – means take a picture without much noise. (forgot to mention on video)
- dual CF and SD slots
- Better latch for memory card slots
- the cool center button I love (like introduced on D700)
If you want me to talk about anything else… I might be persuaded to make a few more videos.
This blog also happens to be a test of the amazing video features of SmugMug – the place where I happen to put all of my pictures.
I searched for a while to figure out how to embed video into this blog (it being my first time) there were ANY good resources I could easily find online (we know how a mess the internet is)
So I’ll quickly say I grabbed the embed into web code from smugmug much as one would get the embed link for a picture.
You must keep in mind this is code and not a URL or link… so you switch over to HTML on your wordpress editor and drop it into its place.
This suposes you know how to do a lot of what i just explained. But for me that’s exactly what I was hoping to find out that took me 20 minutes to figure out on my own because there were no good sources.
Shameless plug: Who wants to buy a used D300 (or even a much less expensive D200)
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