Category Archives: Web/Tech

Google+ is dying! Do you care?

I am willing to bet that many of you, maybe even most of you have heard of Google+. I hope so, they have been advertising like crazy on TV. It might even be that you have an account. But the real question is, is anyone actually using it other than Google employees and photo geeks (I can say that because I am one)? Continue reading

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Summary of webinar – Dan Zarrella, The Science of Social Media

I just listened to Dan Zarrella, The Science of Social Media
The Science of Social Media Marketing

In the seminar he is summarizing his free book here.
Zarrellas Hierarchy Contagiousness Engineering

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Why would I use twitter to market my business?

Why would I use twitter to market my business?
I get asked this question all the time so I thought I would take some time to write an article to answers this and other similar questions. Continue reading

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How to Photograph Fireworks Displays

Every year around the 4th of July I get the question how do you shot images from the great national holiday that look rich and capture part of the experience? It looks so hard it must be next to impossible to do right?

Well with a little bit of knowledge and some basic equipment, and essentials, you can capture these moments using your digital camera allowing you to keep these moments for posterity. So even if you’ve never tried photographing fireworks displays, it’s relatively easy to do using the information presented below.
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SEO The Importance of Inbound Links (and How to Get Them!)

One of the many ways to increase your visibility in the search engines like Google is to appear import. This is a measure of actually being important in the wed community. The way you appear important is to have many web sites link to your site. This process is known as building inbound links, or backlinks. Inbound links are those that direct to your page from another website or domain.
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Camera review Panasonic Lumix GF2 – Part II

Do you ever get tired of lugging around that huge anchor of a camera that you have so that you can impress all your friends and fellow professional photographers and look like a pro? Have you been keeping up with the incredible advances that have been made in the high end point and shoot camera market? These cameras are often called interchangeable-lens compact (ILC). Well, I must say I am very intrigued and yes I can say I even lust for a great small camera that I can have with me all the time. These cameras and they are showing up all over the place and great advances have been made in quality and performance. Continue reading

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How to create a Email Submit or Subscribe box on WordPress?

How to create a Email Submit or Subscribe box on Wordpress?

So I was doing some SEO work on my blog and the tools that test your site for SEO-niceness look for a “subscribe to site” capability. On a previous blog that was very easy to do and frankly I was a little surprised that WP does not currently have that capability.

So off I went searching for answers. I quickly realized that it was not automatic and it was going to require a little code. Not to worry, it turns out there is a solution that is relatively easy.

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How to convert a Typepad blog to a WordPress blog

I have been blogging for a very long time at the Questions and Answers blog www.qandablog.com that is hosted via typepad.com. But I have known for a very long time that,
1. I wanted to be working in WordPress, the most popular Content Management System (CMS) in the world, so that I can easily help my clients with their web pages and blogs etc
2. From a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective, it is much better to be blogging at your main domain, in this case www.waynemoran.com so that you are driving traffic to your domain and not the generic typepad.com domain.
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Basilica of St Mary Minneapolis Minnesota – Minnesota Art

This is an image of the interior of the Basilica of St Mary in Minneapolis Minnesota. The inside is breathtakingly beautiful and it certainly gives one a sense of awe…
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Jay Micholic : President Cornerstone Parking Group

Jay is only one of the most charming handsome men alive.
Great working with your team Jay!!!
This is all part of the large commercial shoot I am doing for a local Parking Vender. These guys are a great team of wonderful people.
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Use your color histogram to correct your white balance

Have you ever noticed that when you are shooting an image, you look at the image on your screen on your camera and you notice right away that the colors do not look right? You know, they are too blue or too red or whatever. Yes you can run into this situation even when you are shooting with a camera that has a great auto white balance setting. As you get more and more careful with the quality of your images and when you want to capture super high quality images the first time so that you can limit post production edits. So how do you fix this color issue which is a white balance issue?
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Photo of the Day: Guthrie Theater

The Guthrie Theater is a Tony Award winning center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the result of the desire of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea, and Peter Zeisler to create a resident acting company that would produce and perform the classics in an atmosphere removed from the commercial pressures of Broadway.
The Guthrie Theater has performed in two main-stage facilities. The first building was designed by architect Ralph Rapson and included a 1,441-seat thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, which was active from 1963-2006. After closing its 2005-2006 season, the theater moved to its current facility designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.
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The Guthrie Theater is the best place in the city to take portraits, to see great theater, to eat or just to hang out. I love this place.
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Picture of the day: Target Field : Minnesota Twins Stadium Target Field Matt Fox Professional Debut

Take me out to the ball game…
This shot was captured at the Minnesota Twins stadium known as Target Field in Minneapolis Minnesota. This was a great win for Matt Fox’s professional Baseball debut.
I had great fun with the boys and I was able to witness this wonderful sunset.
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Working with off camera lighting: Canon 5D Mark II, Cybersync, and various Nikon and Canon Flashes.

So I received my new (used) nikon sb 24 flash (yes I know I am a canon guy), and the Cybersync transmitter and receivers , the light stands and umbrellas etc so last night I had some time to work with them and try to get the whole package working.
To my surprise, it was easy to get the Nikon firing with my canon 5D Mark II. I even was able to fire the Nikon light with my light meter hoocked up to the radio transmitter.
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Easy and Free SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Today want to show you a little trick of online marketing, easy and free SEO of Search Enging Optimization.
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Digital Camera Buying Guide – The rules for buying a camera this Christmas

I know how complex and overwhelming it can be when you are thinking of buying a camera. There are features and size and price and Mega-pixels and lenses on and on and on. Even I get overwhelmed and I supposedly understand this stuff. Well these guidelines or let’s call it a buyer guide or even rule book will help you buy and keep the right digital camera for you. The digital camera market has grown exponentially these past few years and there is a huge choice of cameras for the consumer. My advice for you, go through this checklist and by the time you are done with it, you should in the end be able to find the right camera for your needs.
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Minneapolis Stone Arch Bridge – Wayne Moran Photography

The Stone Arch Bridge is a classic symbol of Minneapolis. It is a view of an era gone by, mixed with the modern. The bridge built buy a great railroad baron, was used to create much of the wealth of the region being the means by which grain could come to market in the breadbasket of the country. This image is one of Wayne’s most popular, being used for book covers, marketing material for local corporations and art on many fine homes.
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Wayne Moran Photography: New Web Site up and running!

Wayne Moran Photography New Web Site is up and running!
The good people at Wayne Moran Photography have completely revamped their web presence making it express the image they were hoping to portray to their customers and to make it more easy to read and use. One user stated, “It sure has a major cool factor to it.”
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New Imagekind Gallery

I have opened a new account that will now allow me to sell prints of my photography.   There marketing campain will look like the box below…

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Evangelical Outpost Tech Update

Joe Carter from the evangelical outpost provides a frequent tech update in his Yak Shaving Razor series that I find incredibly helpful.  This weeks best tip!  WordPress is coming out with a free hosted version.  This is great for all … Continue reading

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More than one Pope???

Did you know there is currently more than one Pope?  Well not exactly but there are some people that claim to be Pope and because of the world wide web, they may be getting a bigger audience than they deserve  … Continue reading

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Is Sony’s XCP copy-restriction software infecting your PC

How widespread is the damage from Sony’s XCP rootkit software? New statistical evidence says 568,200 networks, including military and government targets, likely contain at least one infected machine.  By Quinn Norton. Complete story here

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