As told to Cate Scaglione - Life As Fine Art Thanks to the digital revolution our culture is by far the most photographed generation in history. Without planning or purpose, people now take pictures simply to share them on a global scale. Sociologists are enjoying a field day over the reasons why, but certainly with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr we have so many ways to broadcast intimate moments with family, friends, pets and our last meal. Which means professional photography is becoming less relevant and less profitable, right? Or is it? The anti-selfie When a client hires a highly To View More >>

I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but I've never read a business book. Not really. I've skirted around them … flicked through them … put them back on the shelf. Stephen on the other hand has shelves of them. He reads them and fills me in on the concepts. It's worked for many years :-) So a friend comes for the weekend and hands me this book … tells me I MUST read it: The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth by Chris Brogan, one of Stephen’s favourites. I think it's the title that grabbed me. I’ve always felt we've bordered on the right side of being freaks. To View More >>

A few clients have told us that they prefer to export their own printing files (page layouts) in Photojunction, but the "Export" button seems to have disappeared. So what have we done with it? Whether the Export button appears or not is dependent on whether you or we (Queensberry) are to do the exporting, and that depends on the option you choose in the Service dropdown menu during album set up. Looking at the screenshot, if you choose Print and Assemble you'll need to do the export - ie create the PSD layouts and, if need be, edit the files before you upload them to us. If you chose Export, Print To View More >>

Here we go! As we hinted last week we’re introducing... ZERO COMMISSION ON ALL PAID WORKSPACE PLANS, effective immediately * If you’re a professional photographer, Workspace offers the most affordable and powerful image hosting service out there, and you can use almost every Workspace feature on our cheapest paid plan - just upgrade as you need more storage. COMPARE WORKSPACE PLANS But that’s not all Portrait and wedding photographers need more than image galleries and shopping carts. They need album design software, online album proofing, mobile image apps, and personal client To View More >>

Our statistics tell us that almost 30% of people visiting your Workspace image galleries are using their mobile devices. And the number of people using iPads or iPhones for online browsing and shopping is  expected to increase dramatically over the next few years. In response to this the Queensberry developers have  recently completed an awesome upgrade to the Workspace shopping cart, fixing little bugs here and there, but most importantly - making it fully adaptable to mobile and tablet devices. What does that mean for you? Well if your clients are viewing your image galleries To View More >>