 | | What You're Not Doing With Your RSS FeedRSS feeds have been growing steadily in popularity throughout the year. They have begun appearing on almost every news related source, and now even corporate web pages. While more businesses begin to cater to the opportunity of creating an RSS feed, many do not fully understand their exact usage. It is as if publishing an RSS feed will magically create traffic and pull constant visitors to their site. Maybe they believe the web search engine robots will pull and distribute the feeds. However, the truth is that most major search engines today do not yet incorporate RSS feeds into their main search engine results. They may completely skip over the RSS feed link when spidering a site. However, there is a world available that these new RSS users are not yet aware of. It is the world of RSS search engines.
As the major search engines continue collecting standard web pages and try their best to keep updated with the new content, the RSS search engines are quietly churning away on pings, feeds, and new content by the second. They have a different way of collecting feeds than the major search engines and their users have a different way of sifting through the content.
Most RSS search engines require you to submit your RSS feed directly to them. They will then begin spidering your content, making it available for searches, and refreshing your feed as it is updated. Users are flocking to the RSS search engines for new content. With their RSS reader software tuned to specific keywords in the search engines, they can now pour through much more content than they previously could with a web browser. This opens tremendous opportunities for your products and ideas to be heard. RSS feed publishers should become fully aware of the importance of RSS search engines in order to maximize the results of their feed.
There are over 100 RSS search engines available and the number grows each month. Submitting your RSS feed to each one is a necessary task. From small search engines to large ones, each one can provide you with potential RSS visitors and they certainly add up. Promoting an RSS feed should be considered no different than promoting a web site.
You may have created and published an RSS feed, but that doesn't mean people are actually reading it. Submit your feed to the RSS search engines and watch your readers grow. Your web site traffic is sure to follow. |
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| HDR Photography Photo Workshop (Wiley's Photo Workshop Series)
by Pete Carr and Robert Correll |  | BOOK OUTLINE:
- Chapter 1 Dynamic Range and Digital Photography
- Chapter 2 Gearing Up
- Chapter 3 The Art of HDR
- Chapter 4 Landscapes
- Chapter 5 Architecture and Cityscapes
- Chapter 6 Interiors
- Chapter 7 Black and White
- Chapter 8 People and HDR
- Chapter 9 Street Photography
- Chapter 10 More Creative Possibilities
Wiley; First edition (June 9, 2009)
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
Paperback: 304 pages | Product Description:
Expand your artistic vision with HDR photography
By artfully blending multiple exposures, you can create images with incredible detail, photos that mimic fine paintings, surrealistic imagery - once you understand the process, your options are virtually endless. This book explains the tools you need to get started and how to create high dynamic range (HDR) images. You learn to evaluate a scene, photograph different subjects for the best HDR results, gain skill with software, and begin a lifetime of exploration.- See how HDR compensates for the camera's limited ability to record the visible range of light
- Examine the necessary camera features and accessories
- Learn to process HDR images using Photomatix and Photoshop Elements
- Learn to create HDR photos from single exposures
- Experiment with landscapes, cityscapes, interior shots, black-and-white, nighttime photos, and more
Save 15% on Photomatix software when you buy this book! Details inside!
A gorgeous full-color guide to high dynamic range (HDR) photography
With HDR, people can boost detail in the light and shadow areas of a photograph, enhancing crispness and clarity to an astonishing degree-and heightening expressiveness and dramatic impact. This beautiful book reveals the secrets of spectacular HDR images, covering everything from camera set-up and basic Photomix or Photoshop manipulation to toning, reducing noise, creating panoramas, layering images, and adding vignettes and other finishing touches. Hundreds of striking full-color images taken around the world illustrate techniques and showcase the creative power of this increasingly popular technique. | About the Authors:
Pete Carr became fascinated with photography at age 10. He became a software engineer, but soon returned to his first love. He authors an award-winning photoblog, Vanilla Days. Pete Carr (Liverpool, UK) is one of the leading specialists in HDR photography. His work has been featured by Professional Photographer, JPG Magazine, DSLR User, the BBC, and various galleries around the UK.
Robert Correll is an author, artist, music producer, audio engineer, and musician as well as a photographer. He's an expert in image-editing software. Robert Correll (Fort Wayne, IN) is a digital photo expert who writes monthly photo retouching articles and tutorials for the Paint Shop Pro Photo magazine and has his own professional photo retouching and restoring business. |
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