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As photographers, we all know the friends who take way too many photos and then upload them to Facebook; causing us to sometimes cringe at them. A great example is the girl that posts way too many photos of herself (or always in the same pose.) Vimeo users Neil Chan has parodied this problem in his video, “Pro-Facebook Photographer: Marc Huelet.” In it, Marc tries to talk all about the gear he uses: which ranges very greatly from high end professional cameras to the iPhone. But he brings up a much better point: that being that it’s the photographer that takes the images and no matter how great the camera may be, it will never replace the knowledge, experience and creative vision that an individual has.

If you’ve got a couple of minutes, check out the video above. Let us know your thoughts on some of the photos that you find on Facebook.

Apple’s Aperture 3 is the latest release of the software designed to help photographer’s manage, and edit their images. It’s direct competitor is Adobe’s Lightroom 3. Adobe’s Lightroom 3 runs on both PC and Mac platforms while Aperture is just made for Mac. If you have a Mac I would try both Lightroom and Aperture so that you can decide which works best for you.

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Flickr is a great place to share your photography. We previously had a posting on how to get more page views on Flickr, but I wanted to go into the social media side of things. I am not a fan of Facebook so Flickr is my site of choice for sharing my photography. It’s very difficult for me to imagine not sharing my photography. There is a clear difference between photography for profit and photography for sharing. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo by GServo

It’s contest time again! This time, we want to see that creamy bokeh goodness in your photos! To enter, you can submit as many photos as you want showing off that bokeh to The Phoblographer’s Flickr Group with the tag, “The-Phoblographer-DIY-Photography-Bokeh-Contest” without the quotation marks (and you can click on that to see how to do it correctly). All submissions must be made to The Phoblographer’s Flickr Group. While we’re on the subject, we’d also recommend that you become fans of The Phoblographer and DIYPhotography on Facebook.

The prize? The top three winning entrants will receive a free Bokeh Master’s Kit. If you don’t remember, we reviewed the kit a while back. The contest runs from April 23rd to 12AM Eastern (NYC) April 30th. The winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

This contest is sponsored by DIYPhotography.net. They are the creators of a great new eBook and also provided inspiration for our Beauty Dish hack.

Just an FYI everyone, I’m testing out the Canon T3i. On our Facebook page, we’ve got an album with a couple of T3i image samples I shot with the Canon 35mm F/1.4 L. These were RAW images that were processed with the newly released Lightroom 3.4 RC. You may also want to look at our video test, Day 1, and our analysis.

While you’re at it, why not become our friend on Facebook?

Recently, Facebook took a better measure to protect people’s photos by incorporating Lightbox the way that Flickr does. This is a step in the right direction for many photographers, yes? Sure. But try this: click on a photo of some sort and wait for it to come up in Lightbox. Then hit refresh. I’m using Firefox, and it took me back to the old Facebook photo page that allowed me to pull the image from the site if I wanted to.

So photographers: does this mean that you’re just going to work on building your pageviews on Flickr instead?

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