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My First Book: Photo Nuts and Bolts!

Published last week, via the Digital Photography School, my first ebook, “Photo Nuts and Bolts: Know Your Camera and Take Better Photos” is now available to buy for $19.97USD!

The book is all about the camera and how it works. All the important essentials behind how your photograph is taken are explained, as well as how knowing how it all works can improve your photos.

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Manifest 2008 Photo Studio – Come and Camwhore!

Rebecca as Meroko

The Melbourne Anime Festival, Manifest, is the biggest photo event of the year for me. I’ve been shooting Manifest in one form or another for seven years. Last year I took over 3000 photos, and had a great time. You can see all of the photos I have taken at Manifest in the last seven years in my gallery.

This year, however, is different. This year I’ll be doing it professionally.

You can read the details at the special page I’ve set up.

It’s been somewhat last minute – the Manifest committee contacted me fairly recently to suggest the idea – but I’m close to completing my preparations so I’m announcing the Manifest Photo Studio tonight! Anyone who is attending Manifest this year, please come by my photo studio to say hi and have your photo taken. Photo shoots are free, and you can purchase prints at a special convention price. I’ll be located in the foyer outside the main theatre (Copland Theatre) in the Eco/Com building. It’s right near where the cosplay comp will be held.

I’m taking all my studio gear, including my 3x6m white backdrop, four lights, reflectors, coloured gels etc. With this gear set up there, I should be able to get much more professional looking photos than have ever been available at Manifest before. Cosplayers and regular attendees are welcome to have a photo shoot, and my backdrop can accommodate groups of eight or maybe more!

Needless to say I’m going to absolutely flat-out this weekend, even more so since my lovely sales assistant Naomi is no longer able to attend. I’ve got a couple of friends hopefully able to come and assist, so I should be able to cope with the demand, whatever that ends up being!

This is very much an experiment. I have no idea if Manifest attendees will be interested in buying prints of photos, no matter how professional they look. Many attendees are young, or have spend all of their money on their costumes or on anime merchandise. I hope my photos look impressive enough that they think it’s worth handing over their money, rather than buying more Pocky :)

Although I’ll be very busy shooting at Manifest, and processing photos afterwards, I hope to take note of how it all goes, and learn as much as I can, not just to offer a better service next year, but also to have cool stuff to write about for you all here in the blog :)

If you want to attend Manifest, but haven’t bought a ticket yet, then you’d better get there early Friday or even earlier on Saturday! On the day registrations sell out VERY quickly! I hope to see some of you there!

Advertising Space Now Available on Neil Creek Photographer

Five banner ads slots, in top positions are now available for purchase on neil.creek.name/blog!

After nearly two years of building up this blog from nothing to a Top 100 Aussie blog with over 1000 subscribers and more than 10,000 unique monthly visitors, I’ve decided that it’s time to try some paid advertising sales. Five banner places are available for sale from $20/month via http://www.buysellads.com.

Advertisers

Neil Creek Photographer is a personal blog that focuses on learning photography. The readers are photo buffs who like looking at photography or learning how to improve their skills. They come here to read about my photographic experiments, look at my work, read tutorials and opinion pieces, as well as participate in the community. The blog is ranked 77 in the Top 100 Australian Blogs.

As a professional web developer, I am willing to help advertisers create banners for use on the site for free if necessary. I want to work to help you get the most out of your advertising on my site.

Stats accurate as at time of writing.

  • Monthly pageviews: 26,763
  • Monthly unique visitors: 10,808
  • Top 100 Aussie Blogs: 77th
  • Alexa rank: 236,354
  • Compete.com: 408,339
  • Google Pagerank: 4
  • Technorati: 49,577
  • Yahoo! Inbound links: 4,267

For the full details of the banner spots available, prices, and to buy advertising, please visit my listing on BuySellAds.

I am very keen to work with advertisers to give them the best possible exposure on my site. I am happy to design an ad for you for free if you would like. I will announce each new advertiser with a post to my blog. I will do whatever I can do to help make your ad successful, within the framework of the BuySellAds system.

If you have any questions at all, or want more information, you can email me at neil@creek.name or you can message me on twitter at neilcreek.

Readers

I hope that you will not find the ads too blatant or in your face. I have placed them in locations that I feel are high visibility, but won’t interrupt the flow of your reading and navigating the site. I do not want to annoy you with the ads, as that will only hurt the advertisers, as well as turn you off the site. My main reason for placing ads on the site is to help me support the costs of running the site, and hopefully in the future grow to become a help with my day-to-day expenses.

I am keen to hear from you what you think of them.

If you or anyone you know is interested in advertising on this site, then please follow the link above to my BuySellAds account.

Thank you!

Photos sold!

I’m buzzed at the moment!!

With the help of my beautiful and hardworking wife, I’ve just learned that I have sold three images to Tasmania Tourism. The photos were taken on our holiday there just over a year ago. There’s also the possibility that they’ll want to buy more of the photos I took, since they chose the three from only ten that were sent to them.

Hopefully there will be more of the same to come in the near future :)

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