Source 1 – http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/category/photography-tips-2/
The page provides tips on photography and information on how to shoot many different types of photos. With our digital artefact heavily involving photography this is an extremely useful source for us. It covers a wide range of different styles of photography and overall provides a large amount of information. I think this is an extremely detailed source and will provide us with some great information on little things we can implement to keep improving our photography and to make it look like it was taken professionally.
Photo editing is important with our digital artefact as we post solely photos. This page provides 18 tips on editing photos for beginners. Being a beginner in the area of editing photos, this is something that I need to use. The tips are for common image problems which is something that I will likely encounter being a beginner and won’t have the knowledge to fix. The page provides the solution to these problems and explains it in a clear and concise way which makes it easy to read.
Source 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqKHo1Q7OMc
This video provides information on how to get started on Photoshop and 10 tips on editing photos with the program. While it is quite a lengthy video, it is very detailed and provides great insight into how Photoshop works and things that beginners such as myself can do with it. Many of the things listed are editing techniques that we can use on our photos for our digital artefact and will provide useful in improving the quality of our artefact, which is just as, if not more important than producing a large quantity.
Source 4 – http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/3789/abstract-photography-beginniners/
As our digital artefact is primarily taking abstract photos, I found this source useful. It gives tips for beginners on taking abstract photos and what they can do to go in the right direction. I haven’t had much experience in photography at all let alone abstract photography so this source provides useful information for me. It provides good detail of different methods for producing abstract photography however I feel it could go into depth a bit more with some of the tips. It still gives some starting points for us to go with
Source 5 – http://artunderus.tumblr.com/
This source is a Tumblr page that posts abstract photos taken or uploaded by the user. It has a large amount of photos in a wide variety of settings and with a lot of different focal points. I found many of the photos very interesting and it provided me with a lot of ideas for potential posts that we could make. It also reiterated the point that we need to post often and have a larger amount of content if we want to get a larger following.
Source 6 – http://scarpgodenot.tumblr.com/
The same as my previous post, this is a Tumblr page that posts abstract photos. The difference with this source is that the user frequently posts and interacts with the audience. This seems to have helped build a bigger audience as this user has a lot more views and followers to each of their posts. Having seen this, it has shown me the importance of interacting with the audience and not just blindly posting content all the time and then ignoring the page. We need to engage the audience. I have also had a few ideas for future photos from looking through this source
Source 7 –https://www.facebook.com/facesofuow/?fref=ts
Faces of UOW is an established page on Facebook that takes pictures of people at UOW and then has about a paragraph of text below with a quote from the person which is usually something interesting about themselves. This appears to have been inspired by the wildly popular blog Human of New York. The page posts on a regular, almost daily basis and constantly interacts with its audience. As of this post, it has 4626 followers which shows that the creators have done a fantastic job building an audience. By following these strategies they use we can hopefully start to build a large audience as well.
Source 8 – http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/improve-facebook-news-feed-performance/
Our digital artefact uses Facebook as a platform that we promote our artefact on. Therefore it is important utilize Facebook correctly to get the largest amount of views possible. This site provides 18 ways to improve the viewership of your Facebook page. How the Facebook promotion system works is explained and the page actually provides some very useful tips and explains them thoroughly. I found it useful as I didn’t understand how ‘reach’ worked on Facebook and having never had a page on Facebook it helped me understand how we can increase our following.
Source 9 – http://mashable.com/2012/06/03/the-beginners-guide-to-tumblr/
Tumblr is the other major platform we have our digital artefact on. With Tumblr being completely new to me, I need information on how to use it and how to take advantage of the features it possesses. This source provides a beginners guide to Tumblr and information about how to use its features. It is a useful source and while it only covers the basic features of Tumblr I have found it extremely useful in teaching me how to use Tumblr and to now utilise it for the digital artefact.
Source 10 – http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/get-followers-tumblr/
Similar to my previous source, this one gives tips on how to get more followers and views but this time on Tumblr. Like I stated in my previous source on Tumblr, I have no experience using it so this source was helpful in explaining ways I can attract more followers to the page. I like how it simplifies it down into three steps and then further elaborates on these steps. This source will be great for giving us ideas on how to promote our page and get it out further into the public eye.
Hayden Skates 