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After weeks of secret discussions and work I proudly announce now that Fenyertek.hu, our Hungarian photography tutorial portal has just started to operate.
We are aiming to fill in the itching lack of freely available photography related information in Hungarian. We are going to share videos, podcasts and written material about lighting in studio and on location, portrait, landscape and macro photography, retouching and whatever else comes up as a matter of interest from our readers.

If you speak Hungarian come and visit us. But even if you don’t, you might enjoy some of our videos.

It is somewhat surprising for me to read a blog post from Chase Jarvis about lighting techniques. Not because he is not knowledgeable of the topic. He is definitely a master of his craft. However, over the time it became more of his blogging style to write about something more than just photography and its technical background.  For example, he recommended Paul Arden’s book which I purchased and inspired me a lot, and in an other post he encouraged us reading blogs rather about creativity, vision, mindset and approach.

What will poor McNally do if the young Jarvis takes everything over from him?

I’ve just come across Chase Jarvis’ most recent blog post about the statistics based popularity top list of photography blogs. The list itself might be interesting to some (e.g. Strobist is #2, Chase Jarvis is #8 and Joe McNally is #19), but Chase’s comment on it is extremely important and eye opening.
Most of the listed blogs are techie, kind of geekery – if there is such a word – and how-to blogs writing about gear and techniques. Reading them can easily be addictive and photographers do not grow by them. Chase encourages us reading blogs rather about creativity, vision, mindset and approach.

I tend to agree with him.

I read a lot about photography. Books and blogs as well. I read to learn, to improve and to get inspired. Possibly I read more than I should. As a result sometimes I get pissed off because get less and less from what I read.

I know that many people start blogging just about anything like I did with photography almost two and a half year ago: without much of experience and knowledge. And when lack of knowledge goes hand-in-hand with rock solid confidence and, I wouldn’t question that part, really hard work and enthusiasm, that very rarely results lasting quality.

Learning about the business aspects of photography has never been as easy as it is today and, due to the just explained reasons, never has required as much cautious pre-selection as today.

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Slightly more than a month ago I wrote about that I started a photography business here in Hungary. Now I would like to add that I managed to improve my business related blog by:

1. bringing it under my domain name ( www.businessphoto.hu/blog )
2. integrating it’s design with my business Web site

The blog content there is  in Hungarian, however some of the older and newer posts can be found in English here on Photonovice.net as well.
Let me know your thoughts, but please don’t be too hard to me because I love that design.

What comes later:

• first steps of my marketing activities
• real assignments

Update: Today I’ve closed the comment possibility of this post and I announce the winners of the presents offered Uprinting.com:

• 250 Postcards has been won by Kim and Arpad (see their comments below)
• 1 free 18×24 Canvas Prints is given to Argos.

Congratulations to the winners!

I would like to offer some presents to my most loyal readers in cooperation with Uprinting.com.

In order that I can give you more valuable and interesting content next year I would like to get some feedback from you on which posts you enjoyed the most on Photonovice.net and what photography related topics you’d be happy to read more about in the coming year.

All you need to do is writing a comment below mentioning your favourite topics and you will automatically participate in a completely random drawing of three winners.

The prizes are:

• 250 Postcards for 2 Lucky Readers and
• 1 free 18×24 Canvas Prints for one reader

(3 winners total) from Uprinting.com.

Winners in the United States and Canada qualify for free shipping. Shipping fees will apply to winners outside these areas.

So, make your comment and win!