2010 By Dave

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Orange County Photographers

Google’s algorithms seem to know exactly what OC means. It means Orange County but I’ve seen definite differences in the SERP page- subtle but different. My observation is based on Orange County real estate photography. I see one result for OC real estate photography where the result is adjusted slightly for the full Orange County real estate photography, which I intend to modify by use of SEO.

Orange County Real Estate Photography – if a picture is worth a thousand words, why not gain the advantage of the equivalent of twenty or twenty five thousand words? A recent article by point2.com concludes: The number of photographs of real estate have a direct, consistent impact on both DOM (days on market) and Net sale price.

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Of all the things that happened this week and even today, what did Yahoo choose to feature on their home page as news? Kate Gosselin gets $5,000 worth of hair extensions. Really? That just rocks my world to know that. Celebrity news at the top of the fold!

Thanks, Yahoo!

That kind of news keeps you going back to Google.

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Before and After

Before: Photo taken at 1/80 shutter speed, f2.8, ISO 1600, no flash. This guarantees too much red, unless that’s what you’re after.

After: Photoshop layer with high pass, vivid light masked with highlighted areas of candles and flowers. Second layer with color removed and mask erased on candles and highlighted flowers. Finally, a layer below with color reduced to around 30%.

Orange County Photographer

Does this photo follow the Golden Ratio?

Update on Lowlights before and After for Hair

For some reason, this post has had a lot of visitors searching for lowlights before and after for hair coloring. Probably the best example of hair lowlights before and after is on Adrian Well‘s website. My wife and the girls in our family have done this technique from time to time with nice results but none of them stick with it all that long- they end up wanting a change, or deciding not to continue the endless cycle of maintaining the style as their hair grows out. It probably works best when used at more subtle levels or on lighter hair colors. This hair technique is totally out of vogue for all guys except those badly stuck back in the 1990s, now the stone-age in hair style measures of time.