Tips When Starting a Photo Blog

Posted: March 11, 2016

[caption id="attachment_12635" align="alignright" width="478"] There are many sites that let you build photo blogs, several of which do it for free.

Image from digital-photography-school.com[/caption] Whether taking pictures as a hobby or as a way to make a living, there comes a time photographers want to share their images online. Social networking platforms can be one way, but sometimes a simple blog is a great way to display your work for the world to see. Before taking the blog plunge, consider these things to help determine if a blog is the right way to share great moments that you capture. Simon Ringsmuth, writer for Digital Photography School, shares tips for starting a photo blog.

Tips to Help You Start a Successful Photo Blog

As you learn more about using your camera, and start taking beautiful pictures, you might also want a way to share them with the rest of the world. There are many social networking platforms that are ideal for this sort of thing like: Instagram, Flickr, Google Photos, Tumblr, and Facebook, along with hundreds more. However, one of the most popular, and effective ways, to share your pictures is a simple, humble, tried-and-true blog. Even though blogs are sort of like grandpas in our modern internet age, there’s a reason they have stuck around for more than two decades: they’re intuitive, easy to set up, and they allow you to have full control over your content. Many photographers enjoy using blogs because of their flexibility and customizability, and if you want to spent a bit of money for a dedicated blog platform like Squarespace, or a self-hosted WordPress installation, you can get even more creative. If you are thinking about pursuing this route there there are some things you need to consider before setting up your own photo blog. Know why you are doing a blog This first point seems kind of obvious, but a lot of photographers find their blogs stalling out, and gathering dust after a few months, because they did not define their purpose for doing the blog when they first began. Read the entire article Tips to Help you Start a Successful Photo Blog on Digital Photography School.