hi everyone - just some thoughts on on-line image sharing...  it has been about 5 years since i started using swish to create image slideshows for sharing images quickly and in a viral format.  one of my then commercial clients, theta interactive saw the formats and wanted to expand upon the design and custom make me something that was a bit more feature filled.  Michael of Theta custom made a product called slideshare which become the first product by ITDR.  Slideshare has since evolved into slideshareMAX.  I am putting slideshareMAX to the test and using it in new ways that I hope will help business and get more people seeing what I am shooting.

One exciting things that has recently started happening is that i am having photo editors and art buyers contact me directly to find new fresh images which have not yet been published.  I wanted to repurpose the traditional use of SlideshareMAX into a format to archive recent shoots and share them with these photo searches to potentially get the images up and in use faster.

Also wanted to create galleries of common types of images i might have a request by an assingment client to see more work.  So i do alot of fitness appreal shooting, i will creat groups of images focusing on this type of client.  We shall see how it works!

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http://www.jayreilly.com/darkroom/share/?n=jayreilly

Hi Everyone, here are some samples from yesterdays workshop.  Tried to talk a lot of business and most importantly, get the camera in hand and shoot!  What other photography workshop has you out on a 40 foot catamaran! Here are a few...

Hi everyone!  Had tons of fun shooting some wedding fashion for the recent wedding workshop.  Here is one of the sessions.  Just shooting around the studio, we had 3 seperate shoots and talk about the business and approach to shooting weddings.  More on the workshops at this location: http://www.jayreillyworkshops.com

On a side note - i did the styling with the vintage dress, which is now for sale, veil not included.  If you want to buy it, hit me up!  $200 shipped!  Its a size TINY!

So I am not a Masterfile contributor but their web site almost wish i was a Masterfile photographer!  I saw their new site(maybe not so new anymore) a few weeks ago and thought the site work about as perfect as it gets.  I love the clean white look with the bright retro brand and the scrolling horizontal thumbnails is pretty slick.  The thumbnail system really allows you to see more images faster... and that is key.  Also dig how when you find an image it can immediately give you the similar or other frames from the same shoot.  Pretty nice!  A another item that is nice is the toggle feature between the RF and RM options. 

Well done Masterfile!

Just a few more comments on this site.  I talked to the some masterfile people and there are a few key features i left out... one of which masterfile has a patent on.  It is called Visual Matching.  Basically you can now visually match an image with something completely different!

Also you can zoom into images online.  Once you click on an image and it opens up large on the left side of the screen, there is a magnifying icon underneath and you can zoom in.
Also try randomly selecting (clicking on) any 4 or 5 images, then on the last image you click on (it will be large on the left hand side), you will see a back arrow to the left of the image, this will remember everything you just clicked on and bring back the similar images without changing your original search area.  There is a History tab that will log a thumbnail of each image and store it by which day you were searching.
 
I we leave a video demo link that you can watch as well - turn on your speakers: http://creative.masterfile.com/endlessmedia/howitworks.php?lang=en_en

Hi everyone, just quick casting notice.  Have a few last minute shoots i need to cast for:

1.  good looking fun energetic couple, in their late 30s to 50s - actual couple would be great.
2.  athletes for action shots in the studio - super fit, photogenic, action packed shooting, guys and girls
3.  a cute young couple - just added, looking for a cute couple to shoot on friday as well

The shoot is February 20, in the afternoon.  interested, please email - jay@jayreilly.com with "feb 20 shoot" in the subject for more details.  please send digital pic to be considered, thanks!

what is selling.  i did not have a big month in sales but every month I evaluate what in my catalog is licensing and to whom or for what application.  its always very interesting to me and i feel the research is a very important part of the process.  I am really having to think about my process a bit more because i am hosting a workshop on stock photography this Friday in my studio.  sign up if your interested:  http://www.jayreillyworkshops.com

a few sellers this month:

thanks to chris for bringing out the crew. i will post on the film project in a few shoots, when i have enough to show. got the book called in and needed to update with some serious printing. will follow up soon, thanks!  

or a hand model, although i have had to on a many low budget product shoots...BUT LETS PLAY A GAME!

I have a shoot today on this dreary rainy day, and am feeling like shooting some film.  Just want to compare some qualities of the old slide film i used to shoot pretty often with my digital processing today.  So if all goes well, i will shoot a few rolls of film and scan it and maybe we can see what we like as a group.  Come play along or laugh at the stupidity and think, heck, film is dead!  Either way, in an effort to create something a bit different, here we go...

film v digital!  check back next week.  oh, you can start your wagering among yourself in the comments.  almost forgot how to load this stuff!!

Hi Everyone!  Over the years I have developed a pretty large network of friends, colleagues, readers and creative professionals that frequent this blog or my other circles of existence, facebook, twitter my web sites... whatever.
 
I just wanted to take this opportunity to ask that if you do read this blog if maybe you can share it with others that might have an interest.  If you happen to know a creative professional that might need a photographer, please send them this link.  Sometimes people might not even know who my market is but any Marketing Directors, Public Relation Directors, Art Directors, Graphic Designers, Interactive Designers, Photo Editors or Art Buys.  Some of what i do is catalog work, annual reports, web site images, corporate assets, editorial images, fashion and portraits.

Thanks so much for the support and to make it interesting and fun, here are some things in return for the effort...comment below and i will pull the names and put them in a hat.  Pull and name and the winner gets one free workshop of your choice(www.jayreillyworkshops) and an Aurora 5x5 fine art book - Aurora Photos - Found Moments and Conceived Images.

thanks so much!  some recent beach pics... thanks!!

Hi Everyone,  just a quick post of some of the kids workshop from last week.  Thanks to all that came and had fun chasing kids around and getting silly!  Thanks to Sarah and all the models and parents for hanging and spending some time with us.  Here are just a few...

Also a thanks to ITDR for sponsoring the event and also for offering some perfered incentive for those taking the workshops.  But they are also having a pretty sweet deal on a HYPERLITE blog and SLIDESHAREmax for only $500.  Hit them up and tell them you found out here.