Here, we focus on the art and craft of blogging — sharing tips to write more and better, hosting writing challenges to push ourselves and polish our craft, and establishing a space to interact with and learn from others.
Everyone’s “blogging process” is different, from our approach and content to our reasons and goals. For most of you in this community, words take center stage. Yet blogs are very visual platforms, and telling our stories with images is a huge part of the process. Our weekly photo challenges, ever so popular, illustrate this.
We know many of you publish photos on your sites, so we’re excited to dive deeper into the world of photography. In an upcoming series, we’ll introduce the basics — and push you to think about your site with a visual eye and enhance your posts with images.
With the help of guest photographers in our community, we’ll cover the essentials: composition (framing a shot and figuring out what type of image works best for a post); point of view (the position from where you take a picture, like from above, as Sara illustrated in a recent weekly photo challenge); color; shape, line, texture, and pattern; and light.
Then, we’ll take what we’ve learned and discover how to approach blogging with images in mind:
- experimenting with effects in the post-production stage
- selecting and presenting the right images for a post
- deciding when is best to use a gallery, slideshow, or embedded images
- recording details and metadata
Along the way, we’ll share specific tips to get the most out of the features in your dashboard and themes on WordPress.com — and learn which tools and designs are best for you and your blog.
We’re currently scouting for photographers interested in contributing tutorials and tips for this series — particularly those who display exemplary work in the field. If you have favorite photographers on WordPress.com who fit this description, let us know in the comments. Tell us, too, if you’re interested in learning something specific.
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I shall so look forward to reading those posts! Photography definitely forms a big part of my overall blog.
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Looking forward to this a lot!
janet
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If you got http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com you would be onto a utter winner.
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He’s definitely an all-time WP.com favorite! In case you missed our interview with him, be sure to check it out: https://wordpress.com/blog/2012/12/05/iconic-photographer-steve-mccurry-talks-blogging-and-wordpress/
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yep, that’s when I started following him 🙂
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OMG! I clicked the link and was totally blown away with his photos!
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He is the one who photographed that Irani/Afgani girl with the red head scarf and green eyes. It’ so famous and so captivating. Try and find it.
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This would be great. One of my blogs is a photography blog and I’d love to get and share tips.
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What’s the URL of your photography blog?
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http://www.amiloo.com
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Looking forward to this. I would recommend Liz Masoner. She has a site on WordPress.
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Wonderful news!
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I have to admit I’m a bit envious of the lovely images some of you can produce to make your blog look interesting and inviting to read. I would love to learn more about decorating mine.
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Yay! I am specifically interested in learning how to make my pictures of my food more appetizing!
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Reblogged this on Ryan Photography and commented:
Definitely bookmarked and followed… this is going to be good especially for us that showcase our photos…well done WordPress on a novel idea.
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That will be a very interesting topic for me, as I have a photoblog, too.
Other photoblogs that I would suggest are, among others, just for exccellent photos:
– http://kenneturner.com/
– http://m5son.wordpress.com/
– http://bellaremyphotography.com/
And for excellent pictures plus tutorials:
– http://thegreatamericanlandscape.wordpress.com/
– http://leannecolephotography.com/
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Thanks for dropping links to your suggestions — appreciate it!
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You’re most welcome. Allow, me, please, to suggest one more blig with excellent pictures:
http://utasflow.wordpress.com/
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Check out http://www.inspiringthroughthelens.com
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Looking forward to seeing these posts! I think a post specifically about smart phone cameras would be best. I’m an amateur photographer and take photos for personal use that happen to be useful for what I write about. (typical!) And I honestly don’t plan on buying a professional camera for my blogging. So please take that into account when crafting this series – I don’t think I’m the only one like this. Thanks! Looking forward to it!
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Thanks for your input — we recently did a series on phoneography (mobile app basics, photo apps) though didn’t cover technical basics on the mobile cameras themselves. While this upcoming series is more about sharpening your visual eye and enhancing your blog with images — instead of a technical series on how to use a camera phone — I’ll keep this in mind.
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Thanks for the links!
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Wonderful concept! My “What Is It?!?” blog is a photography blog, mainly with macro pictures. I look forward to hearing tips from others in the field. 🙂
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Nice focus on macro images (and the blog name works well!).
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Thank you, Cheri! 🙂
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I can recommend http://www.lichtbildwerkerin.com She has already done some tutorials in german, which are very helpfull i.e. long exposures.
Give it a try and ask her 😉
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Hi Angela,
I think your blog [http://hamburgundmeehr.wordpress.com/] might be one to mention here, too, for its excellent pictures.
Best regards from southern Texas,
Pit
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He subscribed to me at http://www.inspiringthroughthelens.com
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Hi Pit,
as I am not very good in writing and explaining, this is not a good idea 😉
I think there are much better photographers in the wordpress community than me 🙂
Cheers Angela 🙂
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Hello. I happen to think http://rampix.wordpress.com/ Rampix Photography could offer some good suggestion. I don’t know of anything specific its just their blog is exemplary in style and form and they take amazing pictures. PEACE!
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Stunning idea! 🙂
I would recommend Ed Knepley – http://edkphoto.wordpress.com/,
then there’s ARTUTS – http://ekscusemeplease.wordpress.com/,
Linda Strickland at http://naturerestoresme.wordpress.com/ and
FrizzText at http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/
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Reblogged this on amtrading4u.
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Great idea! How about our founder who is a professional photographer? She wrote this article on the Huffington Post about how taking photos improves your mental health! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-hark/photography-mindfulness_b_2926347.html Click her name to see more articles. She has also written about tips for taking better photos. You are welcome to write her at brokenlightcollective at gmail dot com.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
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by far my favorite photographer on wordpress:
http://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/
please give it a look!
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That sounds pretty awesome. I can’t wait to read these posts! I would like to try my hand at photo-blogging!
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Thanks for doing this. I’m a writer and photographer from DC. I incorporate my photos into blogs posts but would love to learn how to do more with pictures. I’ve had the most success with iPhoneography – I won an honorable mention in the Cherry Blossom Photo Contest http://joeflood.com/2013/05/07/cherry-blossom-contest/
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Reblogged this on Sonel's Corner.
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Got this when I posted my comment, so I am trying it here underneath my reblog.
Please Note: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Stunning idea! 🙂
I would recommend Ed Knepley – http://edkphoto.wordpress.com/,
then there’s ARTUTS – http://ekscusemeplease.wordpress.com/,
Linda Strickland at http://naturerestoresme.wordpress.com/ and
FrizzText at http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/
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Thanks for these suggestions — I may reach out to a few of these photographers. (And I saw your note below — no worries! Just letting you know why some comments stay pending and some are published immediately.)
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That’s fine Cheri and thanks. We all learn something new in WP every day and it’s good to know. 🙂
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I see you have so many comments and suggestions already, but I really do have to recommend this blog as well Cheri. Hope you don’t mind. 🙂
Lostinthot – http://iamlostinthot.wordpress.com/
Thanks! 🙂
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I especially like that shot underneath #5 (with the knobs). And your simple advice: “don’t stay in one spot.”
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Rachael at http://focusedmoments.net/ has such beautiful macro shots.
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Nice tip — her recent shots of color from Burano are great.
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Cheri, sorry for butting in here but it seems my comments are not going through on your post. It keeps telling me : Please Note: Your comment is awaiting moderation. 😦
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Comments with multiple links go into moderation. I was asleep — hadn’t gotten to it yet!
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Thank you and I did not know or realise that Cheri. I apologize for any inconvenience caused!
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Oh I am really looking forward to this! I love to take pictures, and look forward to learning more! I have enjoyed the photos taken by Vlad on his blog Wind Against Current – http://windagainstcurrent.com/photography/ – I would certainly recommend checking out his work!
Thanks for doing this – it should be fun!
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I second this recommendation – he has an incredible eye . . .
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Cool stuff on Wind Against Current, some of it addressing elements that will be discussed (ie, color). Thanks.
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I’m very interested in all WP proposals to improve photography as far as blogs are concerned and thank you for the constant attention to it.
Thanks , also for the technical suggestions about iPad-blogging; being the only device I own , I’m looking forward to more and more info about it……..
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sounds great and really interesting! would really love to know about the tips
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Excellent! Looking forward to learning more and improving my blog photos…
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I did a simple photography tutorial on photographing children for our photography club here: http://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/seven-cs-for-photographing-children/ . Would love to help as you put this together!
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I like how it focuses entirely on photographing children — with your setting details at the bottom. Thanks for sharing!
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I wanted to give you Tina’s blog URL as well Cheri but then I saw she posted it here (Hi Tina! 🙂 ) and just wanted to give you my recommendation for her lovely blog and photography as well. She is truly a great photographer. 🙂
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Check out this site http://www.inspiringthroughthelens.com
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I love, love this idea. I have been a long time “word” blogger here but recently started my photo blog. Would like to toss my hat in the ring for street/urban shots and also would appreciate any feedback on my new blog as far as how it’s set up.
Sixdegreesphotography.wordpress.com
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Bente from Norway has an awesome blog: http://bentehaarstad.wordpress.com/
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