It took me a while to get used to Pinterest. As with all social networks, we discover  how we wish to interact with it and with others by playing and using. We learn by seeing what works and what doesn’t, whether our end goals are social, commercial, creative or all three.   Whilst I’m sure there is a lot [...]

This Competition caught my eye – Capture the Colour. At first it seemed like hard work to enter. You have to write a blog post with your 5 colour themed entries in. You need to  nominate and link to 5 photographers whom you think might like to participate, and there has to be a link to the competition on your [...]

Everything changes. Technology advances at lightning speed changing the way we live and communicate. The art of photography has been irrevocably changed. There are the obvious changes in the way we capture and process images, and then there are the ways in which we view and share images. When I was a darkroom photographer, I [...]

Looking for new ways to present your work or photography or present ideas on the fly? You’ve fine tuned your Photoshop skills, Sharpened your SEO Knowledge, used Social Media to market your business, now you need to show your new customers what you can do. Here is a novel way to wow your prospective clients with your portfolio.  Below guest blogger Christine offers her review of the [...]

Social Media networks  make it easier than ever to get your photographs seen. These sites are not just great for displaying your talent, but offer ways in which to build relationships and establish yourself as a brand. Google loves brand and Google loves social shares, so not only does it give the the opportunity to engage with potential clients, it is also great for your [...]

Do you have big files? Do they need backing up? Would you like to manage your big files using your smartphone? Need help editing your big files? Try our Photoshop training courses! Here guest blogger Kevin Pritchard tells you all about Kicksend, looks like a really useful app… More “cloud” services are arrving to the mobile [...]

Content marketing is the new SEO. You can find some of the best SEO courses in the UK at Silicon Beach Training in Brighton.  Meanwhile learn some new tricks for getting publicity and writing like a journalist. A fun read from a guest blogger that will help bloggers enhance their writing style and sound professional.  Not that any [...]

Originally I had intended to post all Brighton Photography events worth attending here and to keep it updated! Didn’t realise what a time consuming task this would be. What I have done is amended this post to include all the best places to get this information from! Won’t be putting all Silicon Beach Training’s courses and dates [...]

For years twitter has left the sharing of photos and videos to third-party services like Twitpic and Yfrog. Now Twitter has finally launched its own version, which will soon make it even easier for iphone photographers to upload to twitter making it more useful for the social media savvy photographer. According to Dick Costolo – [...]

Silicon Beach Training have just launched their latest Photography competition with the theme: “Environment”. – This competition has now closed however: The next photography competition has been announced follow it on twitter and facebook. The theme is be “Lifestyle” you can win prints on aluminium that look like floating panels. Think creatively, it’s open to [...]