Digital SLR Blog

ExposureManager (www.exposuremanager.com) has now introduced new e-mail marketing tools for all Premium Account members. The ExposureManager Premium Subscription service was created to help increase print and merchandise sales for photographers. The new tools include;



Viewing Saved Favorites / Carts of Customers – The Premium level account lets photographers easily view saved favorites and saved “cart” images of their customers and visitors.


Email - Verification – This feature creates an automatic verification process where anyone entering his or her email address for any reason will have that email address verified as valid. This measure prevents the use of phony email addresses to gain access to the features built into the site.


Email "Blasts" – This feature enables photographers to send out customized emails using a template. Email “blasts” can be sent to all or some of the emails that have been collected from a user’s site. Photographers control when these blast are sent, and they can include unique coupon codes to encourage timely sales.

ExposureManager (http://www.exposuremanager.com) announced a new Two-Image Group Package template exclusively for event photographers. Photographers utilizing ExposureManager can now offer their customers a range of package options when selling both group shots and individual portraits. ExposureManager’s premium package is $24.95 per month.

Viewbook.com which is an online portfolio service have updated their service and unveiled a refreshed website. Designed for multimedia professionals like photographers, designers and graphic artists, her service lets one organize display and present their work stylishly. Viewbook’s features also extend to presentation creation and client delivery. For more information please visit http://www.viewbook.com

Tamron USA recently announced the re-launch of its website to make navigation a more intuitive and rich experience. The revamped site, designed by Skylar Designs also has a Tamron’s Learning Center section as well as tools like  ‘Lens Finder’ which help customers easily discover what focal length lens is best for them.

You can access the site here.

Photosite snapizzi,which is also online photo community, now features a new tagging technology. The patent-pending IZ tag is a digital barcode and tagging technology, which is capable of automatically capturing and managing photos for sale. Photo customers just visit the website and enter the number beneath the IZ tag to automatically retrieve and buy their photos.

RESOLVE is a new collaborative online community by liveBooks that seeks to bring together photographers and photo industry professionals. RESOLVE is available through the liveBooks' website at http://blog.livebooks.com/resolve and will offer  lessons from the field, how-to information, Q&As, personal work and educational content.

Microstock image website Pixmac has started a new promotion that will last until 28th February 2009. According to the new promotion, all Pixmac contributors who upload their pictures on Pixmac will get a $500 sales guarantee for 2 years for every 500 approved pictures. For more details head over to Pixmac.

Those who are interested in fashion photography should check out Flickrista  at http://www.flickrista.com. The  new website features “the most stunning and beautiful fashion photography uploaded to the photo sharing site Flickr.com”. All are chosen by  editor, Andreas Climent who takes in consideration factors like composition, lighting, concept and beauty.

Camheroes is a new website online diary which helps in keeping track of one's family and friends photographic adventures. One can post pictures from their computers or mobile phones (for now only the iPhone is supported) and the website will then alert the user's acquaintances via email.

"Camheroes enables people to share their everyday lives with family and friends -- even when they are far away from each other," says Frank Karlitschek, co-manager of Camheroes. "Camheroes is not a place for art or professional photographs. It's a portal for sharing your everyday, funny or interesting photos with family and friends," he adds.

The website dxomark.com is now live and claims to give objective RAW‐based image quality data for a fair analysis. Available as a free online resource, dxomark.com assess the intrinsic quality of a camera before the impact of any RAW conversion.


“There are many valuable resources reviewing the image quality of digital cameras, but none of them consider the actual RAW signal straight from the camera sensor,” explains Nicolas Touchard, Vice President of Marketing, DxO Labs Image Quality Evaluation business. “Demanding photographers who shoot in RAW should only care about the genuine quality of the RAW image, yet until now they have had to rely on measures based on converted RAW images, obviously biased by the processing applied to them, whether embedded or performed offline with a software RAW converter.”