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This is the Northern Aire resort that I stayed at a week ago (snowshoeing on the frozen lake). Unlike the warm glow of the city, the sky out there was really dark. Which reminds me, Rob asked me a question about night photography: ‘Do you use exposure compensation?’ Actually I put the camera in manual mode and then use the meter to get a genera idea, then adjust it manually based on what I see and then examine the first shot and go from there. That’s more a factor of habit from older digital cameras that weren’t as good as this one. I should try the exposure comp and see how it does at night. Thanks for the idea Rob, I hadn’t realized that I was ignoring the meter until this moment.
Below is a daytime photo of the resort, the side facing the lake; the trees are on the shore. The above night shot is the entrance.
Thanks to everyone for linking to mitchster.com!
I just discovered that Google is now ranking this site #12 for the search “Minneapolis Photography”. Do you other photo bloggers do much promotion outside of the daily photo blog community? I’m curious if anyone has ideas or links for driving traffic for photo blogs. I might write an article about it soon.
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Fabulous colors! I enjoy night shots with deep black backgrounds; they aren’t easy. I hadn’t thought about the promotion aspect on google. Perhaps a photography club with get together photoshoots? Or, is there one already?
For driving traffic to my blog, I do post my website name where ever I can, but in all honesty, the best traffic getter I’ve had is the search engines. Thus, I try to incorporate a lot of popular phrases, jingles, song lyrics, current events into what I write about. I’m just amazed at how people find my site with the search terms that are used.
I also have a local photographer links, like you do to, in hopes of cross linking between the sites. Us locals have to stick together eh?
I’ve signed up with other photo organizations VFXY, photodigg, and a few others, submit photos and you get to leave a link back to your site usually to help with popularity.
Mitch, I’d like to spend some time there at that particular resort–looks great. Traffic to my blog? I guess I’m just doing this for fun and making connections with people from all over the international scene. I’m learning a great deal about other parts of the country and the world, and that seems to be exactly what I need. Eventually I suppose I’ll learn more about photography, but I’m in a different place in life now than you are. We’re both having fun!!