After setting up my blog I linked it to ‘Bloglovin’, which is a platform that allows users of the site to look at other blogs, discover popular blogs and their most preferred ones and to also organise their own if they have more than one blog. So it is a very useful site. From this, I linked my blog to my photography twitter page, which started to gain me followers, likes and views on my blog. From then on it allowed them to follow me and my photography on both platforms in which they would comment or like my work so I could see what the outside world thought of my work. I was also able to follow them back, and reach out to aspiring photographers, artists, designers and make-up artists that I liked the work of. I tweet as much as I can to keep my online presence known to my followers and also to people who aren’t necessarily following me, but who have the same interests as me. By using appropriate hashtags, it is likely that my tweet was seen by a wider audience that was perhaps following me at that specific time. This is actually a very important part of photography or any creative job, is that you read what other people think about your work. Gaining valuable knowledge and criticism about your own work from people that are perhaps in that business or who do it as a hobby is always significant in improving your own work. I would sometimes spend hours scrolling through twitter and various blogs that were of interest me; I was able to gain a lot of inspiration and it opened my mind up to a lot more ideas and concepts that I could then incorporate individually into my own work, future photo-shoots and college assignments.
My blog has been mainly about my own personal work, whether that is for a college assignment, photography work that I have acquired outside of college, or recent fashion shoots. My blog has been centred mainly on photography, which rightly so, was what I wanted to purely focus my blog on. I think that in future I will be blogging about other bloggers work, and also artists work because to gain a wider knowledge of the art and design world, we have to venture into researching about other artists or designers work, rather than just photographers, which I believe will benefit me into gaining a broader knowledge of the creative world that incorporates photography. Having a blog is a great way of showcasing your work whilst talking through your thought processes, ideas and improvements for next time, this way you are able to talk about your ideas thoroughly and evaluating them at the same time. It is almost like an online portfolio, which gives you that extra boost or platform to work with besides just putting images into a workbook. After recently having an interview at University to gain a full degree, I was able to present my blog aside to my main portfolio book, which I wouldn’t have ever thought about doing before we were set this assignment. After a good reception from the interviewee, I was offered a place, after positive feedback about my blog. So it really does help and it feels very rewarding and beneficial to encourage me to do well.
I have absolutely loved blogging these past few months, all about what I'm getting up to with photography and my interests, and to know that other photographers and people, who are interested in the same passion as mine, are reading my blog and posts gives me the incentive to blog as much as I can. I have also been able to learn about what makes a good blog and how to put together a successful blog from the wording, to the design and what should be included. I will definitely be continuing my blog for as long as possible; it’s definitely improved how I write articulately about a piece of work rather than just posting up my images. It has also allowed me to gain skill and knowledge from other bloggers that will help me in the future with my own photography as I grow, improve and become much more experienced in time.
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