How to start a photography blog – Step by Step Guide

Photography is not just a hobby; it is a profession as well. Becoming a good photographer is not that easy when you don't have proper knowledge over it. 

Newbies need proper assistance to pursue this profession. The first thing is to be creative to click extraordinary portraits. The second thing is to edit the picture (if needed), and here a lot of people need assistance.

Usually, photographers love to edit pictures, but the problem comes when choosing the right software or tool to use. There are several online and offline tools as well for professionals, students, and people taking it as a hobby. 

If you are a newbie and need some quick tips to start from zero here are some quick tips and tools:

1. Start a website
2. Create a backup
3. Social media marketing
4. Use good editor
5. Protect your work

Start a website

 

A website portfolio is a necessary thing nowadays. A portfolio website is a vital strategy to engage more people and worthy clients for your hard work. Social media can be used as a marketing strategy by it fails when relying on it.

Sharing your portraits on social media won't help you that much. You'll look immature as it is not a professional way. Those people are getting attracted whose primary concern is low prices but not the quality of the images. Using Instagram or any other platform will increase the reach, but all will be wasted if not used properly.

Start a website portfolio to attract people that care about the quality of images you have, and ultimately you will be having the benefit of your hard work.

Don’t forget to create a backup

 

Creating a backup is essential. Relying just on the hard drive of your personal computer is foolish. Working on images requires a lot of hard work if you have everything on your hard drive and the hard drive gets corruptor damaged all your work will be wasted.

You shouldn't rely on a backup method. You can use cloud storage to save an unlimited amount of data, and the best thing is the data is safe and can be copied multiple times as per demand.

You can use websites like Backblaze or Google Drive to save your data. It is safer as only you have access to your, and secure in the context that your pictures will not get any damage from any other person. 

Social media marketing

 

Social media is one strategy that is widely used by professional photographers and newbies to share their portraits and reach more people in no time. Even if you are starting from zero, social media is one way to engage more people in your work and have more customers. It is one of the natural and cheaper ways to increase engagements.

Social media apps like Instagram and Facebook have millions of users worldwide. Sharing your pictures on social media will help increase reach, and you can increase the traffic of your website as well by interlinking it with the posts you publish. More the number of people will see your post more chances to get customers. Not only for the customer but having social media also help to create a name in the market.

Use a good editor

 

By clicking just a picture, the task is not done. To meet the demands of the clients, you have to edit the photo sometime. Editing pictures is considered tough, complex tools in most of the software usually make the life of a photographer though. Complexity is one thing, but choosing a good software is a different scenario.

There are thousands of software available on the internet both for mobile and for computer use. Some software is preferred by professionals due to more availability of tools in them, but they are a difficulty for use if the person is new to this field.

Here are examples of software for both professionals and newbies.

For professionals

 

Professionals prefer software that contains more tools so that they can edit the picture as they want. Adobe Photoshop is the software that is used by almost every expert. However, the difficulty of using adobe is great, but it doesn't matter if it is meeting your demands. 

For newbies

 

Beginners who are new to photography usually need software that they can use easily, although not considering the services the software has. The best they can use is Adobe Lightroom. This software is user-friendly and more preferred to be used by starters. This software is not only user-friendly but having a lot of tools that are understandable and easy to use.

Protect your work with Reverse image Search

 

Plagiarism is a huge issue for photographers. No one should use someone else’s content without permission. Plagiarists and scammers usually take pictures to scam people in different ways like they can sell your pictures to people, scam people on portfolio platforms, and in so many other ways.

Protecting your digital property is a must thing to do. How can you protect your digital property? Due to the increased number of plagiarists a software is developed to tackle this issue that is known as a reverse image search.

Reverse image search is a technique that is used to find:

• Source of the image
• Where it is being used
• Different resolutions
• Extended details of the image

Reverse image search is used by professional photographers to keep an eye over their work, whether where it is being used. To check the usage of your image, you just have to upload the image on the tool, and it will search on different search engines and will get you details of the image in seconds. 

The first reverse image search was introduced by Google. You can go to Google images to use this tool.

Moreover, the Reverse image search tool is offered by many websites like Prepostseo and Softo. These are websites by which you can use to search your images, or if you want to get ideas, you can search for relatable images as well.

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