The Clacton Airshow 2010 attracts again loads of spectators and hobby as well as professional photographers. Taking a picture is one thing, getting it to the top of Google is yet another story.
Zo Nicholas has beaten them all with the publication of her images, using a Semiomantics XO Publishing Framework.
Zo comes in right after the BBC and ahead of YORGOO on Google rank 2. Note at the bottom Ycademy.com on rank 10!
YORGOO Publishing Network on Google Top 10
Zo Nicholas site is hooked to the YORGOO Publishing Network and she contributes to various publications. The effect is evident: the publishing power of the network assures rapid deployment and high visibility of content.
As you saw above, 3 top 10 entries in just a few hours. However the deployment was not over at this stage.
When I looked at the issue early this morning, the face had changed:
A second wave shows still 3 top 10 positions with Garden Route Publishing on the number 2 spot (Garden Route Publishing has just been upgraded to the brand new Semiomantics XO Media Framework which will be released later this year).
Surprise, surprise, there comes a good old YORGOO Blaster in as well on rank 2! and finally Ycademy, this time on rank 9.
Just an hour later, this is what I get right now:
Zo Nicholas on rank 5 and YORGOO Publishing on rank 10; and I am sure it will change again during the day as the deployment is not finished yet. Also I would expect this post to become visible soon, as well as another post I loaded the Destinations Expo :-).
Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
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Preparation is key to results and success; in this sense I have prepared for tonight’s important Ycademy Seminar Precall as laid out HERE.
If you click on the picture here – or on GALLERY HERE – you will see a slideshow consisting of a few pictures I selected under different testing aspects.
Photo Media Stock Preparation
As requested for calibration purposes of our Lightroom Pro we have to determine the weaknesses of our individual cameras… be it in the color, tone, contrast, sharpness for example …
I added a couple of pictures as follows:
~ Daylight inside, no flash
~ Daylight outside
~ Daylight outside in the shadow
~ Low light – before sunrise, at sunset, after sunset
~ Stills where I used a Flash inside.
I am looking forward to finding those little common denominators that would improve the quality of each picture automatically as we pull them into Lightroom.
Stock Photography
For Photo Media Stock we need sharp, well focused and attractive photos that buyers then turn into works of art or integrate parts of them according to their priorities, for instance in Advertising. That’s what they pay for.
It’s really important to differentiate clearly between these two caps: am I the seller or the buyer?
I am aware that as creative people and web designers we have to switch between both. This, however, is only possible if we understand and master the basic techniques – and that’s why tonight’s Training Call and the upcoming Ycademy Seminar are so critically important for all those with a passion for Digital Photography and a willingness to enter the competitive field of Stock Photography – even without being professional photographers.
Not easy to take pictures in the busy streets of Ermoupoli. The great atmosphere and the pulsing life in Ermoupoli, the main town of Syros and at the same time the main town of all Cycladic Islands give you the impression of being far, far of from the stressed day to day life.
I tell you, it’s not worth talking about the match if not about the convincing performance of the US Selection for the Basketball World Championship which starts this week-end in Turkey.
The best Greece had to offer
In order not to be negative about the Greek performance … here below the highlights of the Greek performance ..:-). I hope the Greek team will show some real Basketball in Turkey!
This week-ends Photo Media Seminar has a busy schedule like all Ycademy Seminars and to anticipate some of the issues I would like to invite participants to prepare the following:
Adobe Lightroom 3
We will introduce and work with Adobe Lightroom 3. There are some amazing features and improvements of the software which will make our work easier. Amongst the improvements you will find:
Superior Noise Reduction
Support for DSLR video file formats
Improved Image Watermarking
New Image Importing Interface
Perspective Correction
Tethered shooting
Lens Correction
Improved Slide-shows with Music
and more.
Please download and install the 30 days trial version from Adobe: Click HERE.
DO NOT install unless you have attended last night’s session.
We will install and custom configure the software at tonight’s Ycademy call.
Camera Calibration
As far as I am aware of, all participants use cameras which out-put jpg format images, compared to RAW formats. We will therefore do an empirical calibration based on what we see. For this reason, we work with a few images shot with our camera as follows:
3 images daylight, normal conditions
3 images low light conditions
3 images flash (indoors, party, rooms,…)
Please load the pictures to a blog post or a page as wide as your column allows (for most 460 pixels).
I have used the above iPhone 4 Photos to create a calibration preset in Lightroom 3. Then I re-loaded the images again and applied the preset to obtain the following results:
Cooling helps a lot here; the countryside in the background has its real color. The walls of the buildings on the foreground are yellow in reality and dominate the color range. We are here pretty close to reality.
I have taken a similar photo with my P&S Leica V-Lux-20:
As unreal as it may appear, these blues really stick out. However calibrating this camera, I would rather reduce the blue impact and create a preset which is less cool.
Note the church on the last image is also visible on the third iPhone Picture. The two pics have been taken from about the same location and distance. The optical zoom of the Leica provides a smashing result considering that we are talking about a camera about of the size of a box of cigarettes.
You like this picture? Pretty sharp huh … that one has been taken with a credit card size Leica C-Lux-3 Point and Shoot camera. Nice details … you see all the dust and finger prints on the cam and the iPhone.
Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
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Silvermine Nature Reserve – along Ou Kaapse Weg when coming from Cape Town, South Africa, and driving over the stunning Cape Peninsular mountain ranges towards Noordhoek – has just exploded with gold!
It’s spring!
Silvermine Nature Reserve
Sweeping vistas from Silvermine Nature Reserve with a gentle mist dissolving in the early morning sunlight.
Although I experimented with filters in a couple of monochrome versions, I love the above untouched original digital picture from my simple Nikon Coolpix P90 as it’s so authentic and documenting a very special day.
Imagine with this a very soft breeze rustling through the leaves of the typical fynbos… the already withering ericas overgrown by strikingly energetic leucadendrons… and the occasional twitter of those beautiful little long-tailed sunbirds circling up into the crystalline air….
Magic!
Website Publishing
Website Publishing is our main concern when firstly trying to reach Google Top 10 positions – and then holding them. This automatically means visibility and traffic – and from here it’s about attracting and keeping visitors, readers and potential buyers through captivating images, graphics and other forms of media – meaning a great Web Design – a Web Design like Semiomantics that is customized and optimized for each customer individually and prooves its efficiency every single day.
As the Destinations Expo 2010 in Cape Town has closed its doors on Sunday, 22nd August 2010, and as a response to various requests and comments from interested players in the Tourism Industry all across South Africa, we did an Interview with Dumi Sakuinje who attended this relatively new Travel & Holiday Expo in his capacity as the General Manager of Monkey Valley Resort, Noordhoek, South Africa – and who kindly and spontaneously agreed to give us some valuable feedback.
Destinations Expo 2010 Cape Town Interview with Dumi Sakuinje
In our brief yet informative Interview on the value, the results and merits of the “Destinations Expo 2010 Cape Town” , Dumi Sakuinje – who has a wealth of knowledge and experience in African Tourism all across the African continent -, comes to some conclusions that are of interest to anyone who wants to expand their South African Travel and Tourism Business, especially in view of the third Destinations Expo 2011 planned for next year.
Dumi Sakuinje on the Internet
Dumi Sakuinje is very positive and enthusiastic about the massive potential for Travel & Tourism in South Africa – and Africa a s a whole – however, given the fact that most bookings are being made online today, this can only happen with a strong presence and a good reputation on the Internet… meaning high visibility on search engines, like Google, as well as Social Networks, genre Facebook. Accordingly, this is where a major marketing effort and the relating investment has to be concentrated until the goal is reached. It’s the exact route Monkey Valley Resort follows – of course, on Semiomantics Evolution.
As the Destinations Expo 2010 in Cape Town has closed its doors on Sunday, 22nd August 2010, and as a response to various requests and comments from interested players in the Tourism Industry all across South Africa, we did an Interview with Dumi Sakuinje who attended this relatively new Travel & Holiday Expo in his capacity as the General Manager of Monkey Valley Resort, Noordhoek, South Africa – and who kindly and spontaneously agreed to give us some valuable feedback.
Destinations Expo 2010 Cape Town Interview with Dumi Sakuinje
In our brief yet informative Interview on the value, the results and merits of the “Destinations Expo 2010 Cape Town” , Dumi Sakuinje – who has a wealth of knowledge and experience in African Tourism all across the African continent -, comes to some conclusions that are of interest to anyone who wants to expand their South African Travel and Tourism Business, especially in view of the third Destinations Expo 2011 planned for next year.
Dumi Sakuinje on the Internet
Dumi Sakuinje is very positive and enthusiastic about the massive potential for Travel & Tourism in South Africa – and Africa a s a whole – however, given the fact that most bookings are being made online today, this can only happen with a strong presence and a good reputation on the Internet… meaning high visibility on search engines, like Google, as well as Social Networks, genre Facebook. Accordingly, this is where a major marketing effort and the relating investment has to be concentrated until the goal is reached. It’s the exact route Monkey Valley Resort follows – of course, on Semiomantics Evolution.
Spring is here and with it, the sun will slowly travel back from its current position behind Chapman’s Peak until we see it setting in the Atlantic Ocean right from our doorsteps here in Noordhoek – just as you can admire a golden sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noorhoek, right from the deck of the “Crowned Eagle”.
Visitors have left testimonials calling it “Paradise”.
Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek
If you want to know more about Monkey Valley Resort in Noordhoek, South Africa, have a look at the short video on YouTube in HD – CLICK HERE.
If you have a slow line, I recommend you let it run through once first – and then play it, watch and listen in one go!
Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort is definitely worth a trip… and there are many things to do in the idyllic Noordhoek Valley.
Photographic Workshop at Monkey Valley Resort
This stunning sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek was taken by award-winning international photographer David Turnley from New York, who gave a Photographic Workshop at Monkey Valley Resort in December 2009, and who will be back this year!
I have tried for a while: blogging from the iPhone using just the normal WordPress application and then expecting results. here is the problem: when you use the iPhone appi to post to WordPress, your editing tools are limited. If you are used to Semiomantics standards when editing, the WP Application is definitely insufficient… or was I wrong?
The new Semiomantics XO Media script can act as a converter.
Here is my test set-up:
in stead of posting directly to my main site, I post to a new Semiomantics XO Media site, which is configured to convert the post into a Semiomantics standard format. That converted post is then fed into the main blog.
Result: It works brilliantly!
Integrated Semiomantics Converter
Of course the next challenge was then to build the converter directly into the destination site. Test site is my Yorgo Nestoridis site.
Result: absolutely smashing.
The first test post was this after-noon’s McDonald’s joins Garden Route Directory. Target key-words: “McDonald’s (or McDonalds) Garden Route” and we hit the top of Google right away!
It changed, but not really that much and by tomorrow it will change again. Worth while noting: the original post has been published first at Yorgo Nestoridis (.com).
With this successful conversion Semiomantics reaches a new milestone in ‘mobile publishing’.
Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
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