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04.07.08

WordPress 2.5: First Impressions
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Last night I upgraded ishootshows.com to WordPress 2.5, which was officially released March 30, 2008. For the uninitiated, WordPress is a content management system and blogging platform that powers your favorite site for concert photography. This latest release boasts a host of new features, including a new, lean GUI that streamlines a lot of common tasks. Here's a quick breakdown of my first impressions.
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02.17.08

Concert Photography: Frequently Asked Questions
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I've added a FAQ page that touches on a few of the more recurrent questions I receive about shooting shows, including answers to how I got started with concert photography, advice for becoming established, who I contact for photo passes, and more.
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01.24.08

Le-Hiboo.com features the D3, my work
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The French site lehiboo.com has posted a short article on the Nikon D3 featuring a small selection of my work. The piece discusses the high ISO performance of the camera and includes images from recent performances by the Dresden Dolls, the Walkmen, the Hush Sound, and Keller Williams.
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09.18.07

Nikon D3 causes traffic jam
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I like the Nikon D3 as much as anyone, but I wasn't quite expecting that high ISO samples from Nikon's flagship would produce the amount of traffic they did. After posting a set of samples from a pre-production D3, traffic to ishootshows.com increased by a factor of 100.
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07.30.07

About and Contact Form Added
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In keeping with the glacial changes here at ishootshows.com, I've added a form to the Contact page which should make it easier for you to reach me, all while keeping spam out of my inbox.
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07.25.07

Combining AutoViewer and Wordpress
show images, wordpress (10)
I've added a small portfolio to the static pages, which ended up being a slight challenge since Wordpress does not get along with Flash apps as easily as it should. Of course, the image gallery app I wanted to use, AutoViewer by Felix Turner at AirtightInteractive.com, is a slick, Flash-based slideshow, so a workaround was in order.
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11.25.06

WordPress Plugin: Crossroads
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Today while checking some of the most recent plugins for WordPress, I cam across Crossroads by Duane Storey. The plugin integrates Flickr functionality to display images, from individual photos to complete sets. While I've been linking to my Flickr galleries in my show write-ups, I'll be trying out Crossroads to feature the full set from a show.
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