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Photography News that's Fit to Blog (This Week)
by Kerry Raminiak

Greetings. Things are pretty crazy here over the new hubbub coming the way of ExpressDigital customers that I have to keep things a little short… So without further ado, here is your weekly roundup for the second week of August.

Social Networking Sites Ripe for Digital Sales
(ahem, PhotoReflect Users)
We are plugging away to get our newsletter out this week that features a sneak peek of the new PhotoReflect when we found this from InfoTrends:

Social Networking and Photo Sharing Study Points to Opportunities in Photo Printing, Viewing, and Storage

In summary, their comprehensive study indicates that over two-thirds of social networking site users engage in photo sharing and that the disparity between the actual purchase and use of those photos represents a 50 million dollar market for sites or photographers willing and able to take advantage of it. (Click here to read more.)

Two months ago, we published in our monthly newsletter how to be able to sell low, medium and high resolution digital images via your PhotoReflect site with the idea that the low-resolution images are a great way to sell limited rights of your professional photography so that your customers can promote you and your prints and products with this simple offering. (In case you missed it, here a link of step-by-step directions on how to program your free PhotoReflect site to do so -- give it a second to load if you find there is a lag... I will fix it as soon as I can.)

That all said, if you are not using the free PhotoReflect service and you want to sell your photography online, now is the time to get on board. Next month we will be completely re-launching the service with a complete facelift to photographer sites and the internal dashboard and because of so our training sessions and tutorial sessions will likely fill up very quickly. If you want to learn more about this new update, you should sign up for our newsletter for special access.

Ansel Adams on Visualization
Mark Silber of SilberStudios has uncovered this footage of Ansel Adams discussing his key to photography, “Visualization.” It is a simple concept and a short video worth your time. Basically, when you hear Mr. Adam’s talk about how he captures a big “aha” comes over you. Thanks to @PetaPixel via Twitter for passing this along.

10 Ways to Break Photo Block
PhotoCritic.org has posted this very helpful article on how to get out of a photo rut with a number of quick projects to get you inspired and back with your lens up. Under Try Something New, may we suggest trying greenscreen (for your DARKROOM Pro Users) – many don’t have an explicit purpose for greenscreen tools but when you play around with it, we have learned it is quite addicting.

The Art of Photography Show to Debute August 29
From PMAI: The fifth annual Art of Photography Show, an international competition and exhibition of photographic art, will debut the top 111 photographs chosen from 16,000 entries from 57 countries on Aug. 29 at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego, Calif. The exhibit will run through Nov. 1, and is expected to attract 25,000 viewers. Charlotte Cotton, the curator and head of the Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, judged the entries.