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Announcing — APN-The Book 2011 On APN’s 3rd Birthday!

Shivanand Sharma — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:28:27 +0000

APN celeberates it’s third birthday today. Through these three years APN has come to be respected as an authoritative photography reference and resource. Many readers expressed interest in being able to carry this huge knowledge resource in the form of an ebook.

Trivia: APN’s birthday falls on the same day as mine. It was actually a well thought out b’day wish for myself!

Success follows success unless it becomes a trend. The same thing is happening at APN. With the growing popularity and admiration for our first resource, Photography Beyond Memory, there were increasing demands for something more comprehensive and in-depth.

APN — The Book Edition 2011

We feel immense pleasure in announcing the latest APN resource — APN — The Book Edition 2011. The eBook is a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in pursuing photography as a lifelong interest and is a compilation of 3 years of work at APN. This book will help you in moving a step ahead of your photographing skills and will equip you with essentials of photography as an art & craft.

The ebook is designed to satiate all the truths, myths and woes related to photography. The book will help you in strengthening your core skills as a professional photographer. And gives you a chance to envy others of your art! Let others look and wonder “Why don’t my photos look like that?”

What are you waiting for? Just gift yourself a copy of this all new APN resource and get ready to experience the professional photographer in you.

As always our subscribers get a 30% flat discount (wait to receive the discount coupon in the daily email/feed).

Announcing — APN-The Book 2011 On APN’s 3rd Birthday! is written by AdvancedPhotography.Net photography tips.

Discount coupon for APN subscribers: Use the code APNFAN and get 50% off on our interactive hi quality PDF ebook: Photography Beyond Memories.
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Fotolia Review — Review Of Fotolia Stock Photography Resource + Giveaway

Shivanand Sharma — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Fotolia is one of the better known names amongst stock photography websites. It is a repository of royalty-free photos, videos, vector graphics and illustrations allowing photographers to maintain micro-stocks and make money by selling the photographs online. Fotolia, like other stock photography websites offers a common ground to the photographers and designers to buy and sell their artwork.

The stock photography websites allows the members to upload the images free of cost and pays the commission for the sale of the images uploaded by them. Fotolia also follows the same model and offers the commission ranging from 15% to 45% depending on various parameters like file size, type of license and photographer’s rank.

Fotolia’s interface is easy and simple to use. It hosts a secondary menu to provide access to the relevant information just beneath the search box. This panel simplifies access for updating profile, maintaining files and keeping an eye on the subscription plans. Even its mechanism for uploading and downloading the images is user-friendly. To start making money as a Fotolia contributor, you have to:

Sign up for a free account and go through the training module (provided in your toolbox).
Upload and index your images (by providing appropriate keywords and tags for your images, to thus make it easy for the searchers to find the relevant images). Of course you need to follow the rules and guidelines for uploading the images. The minimum resolution required for images is 4MP.
Set the license for your images. Fotolia pays commission on the basis of license used for the image.
Benefit from the Fotolia’s ranking system. Fotolia’s ranking system implies that the photographer with a higher rank will become a premium Fotolia seller (and thus make more money). Fotolia ranks the photographers based on the number of files sold by the photographer.

Fotolia - Royalty Free Stock Photos

Fotolia has comprehensive search options to make it easy to search through categories, galleries, on the basis of country, from the best sellers and latest uploads or on the basis of tags. It also offers free images under various resolutions and licenses. For downloading the images, you need to sign in, select the images, add them to your shopping cart. Choose the resolution and license for purchasing the images and take your pick from payment options. You can make payment on pay-per-image basis or follow the subscription model. When purchasing the images it is better to cross-check the prices with other stock agencies offering similar / same images. By far, Fotolia offers the affordable prices but you may find the same image on the other stock agency with lower quotation.

Fotolia Giveaway For APN Readers

Leave a comment here and win a one month Fotolia subscription. Winners to be announced next week.

Fotolia is giving away a 1 month limited subscription for image downloads. To enter the contest, leave a comment on this post along with your valid e-mail address (so that we can acknowledge you in case you win; we respect your privacy). The winner will be randomly chosen and announced on 4th August.

Have you tried Fotolia? What do you like about it?

We are pleased to announce Elisa as the winner of this giveaway. Elisa has been notified through a personal email. The contest stands closed. Comments are still welcome.

Fotolia Review — Review Of Fotolia Stock Photography Resource + Giveaway is written by AdvancedPhotography.Net photography tips.

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Announcing APN Ebook — Photography Beyond Memories

Shivanand Sharma — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:15:44 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of APN’s first eBook — Photography Beyond Memories. Releasing this e-book is like a dream come true. The most awaited moment is here, the grandeur of announcing the very first e-book offering by AdvancedPhotography.Net.

Photography Beyond Memories is a must have for anyone who wants to enjoy more of photography and turn themselves into a professional. The eBook will provide you with a quick-start to getting a grip on your camera and controls. It then moves to some of the basic but the finer concepts of photography. As a photographer, this book instills confidence so that you shoot like a pro and get professional results.

Photography Beyond Memories is a simple guided approach and a perfect induction for anyone looking to generating professional photography results. Thank you for your extended support to make this dream turn to reality.

Photography Beyond Memories can be downloaded in a high-quality, interactive PDF format here.

We have a special offering for our subscribers (a real surprise awaits you). So if you are not subscribed yet, now is a good time to do so.

Happy Reading.

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A New Design And A Flickr Group Too …!

Shivanand Sharma — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:40:22 +0000

We’ve come a long way since we started. And keeping in mind the feedback we received and to address the growing fan-ship of the site we’ve redesigned the site. During the process we experimented with dark themes which usually are used to showcase photo-blogs. However AdvancedPhotography.Net is more than a photo-blog. It is a place to learn and share tips about photography also. Thus with all these things in mind we made subtle changes to the basic site layout. To add an artsy touch we used some grunge design. Please share your inputs about the design with us.

Another feedback we received – a need to share the photographs with our blog community. Time and again we were asked by you if there was a way to share the photographs with us. Well we just launched the APN-Readers Flickr group. A slideshow from the same is embedded into the sidebar. So all the photos in the group-pool will be a part of the slide show. Feel free to share the links to your Flickr photographs with us. They don’t have to be perfect, ask for feedback or criticism on your art work, share with the community – that’s what this group is all about.

Going forward we’ll hope to bring you more features as well as articles rich in the subject area. If you have not subscribed to the blog yet now would be a good time to do so. Do remember to join our Flickr group too. As always we are feedback hungry and if you have any specific inputs about the site design or the Flickr group, don’t wait.

A New Design And A Flickr Group Too …! is written by AdvancedPhotography.Net photography tips.

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