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We have published a fair few articles on promoting your content, and also done several reviews on sites like Facebook and explored new promotional sites like Copromote. Quite a few people in the forum on our photo hosting site ClickASnap have asked about promoting their content on Twitter so here is some pointers! Firstly if you don't have an account set one up. Twitter, if used correctly, is...

My first foray into photography was when I was aged 9 in 1990. I had saved up £5 from selling fennel on the side of the road and purchased a Minolta SLR and telephoto lens (not too dissimilar from the one below) from a church fete These cameras are vastly different from what we have in use today. Generally limited to 36 exposures, (although 12 and 24 exposure films were available. You could...

29th February 2016 a revolutionary new photo hosting platform was launched. This platform is completely free to use, you can upload as many photos as you like and incur no charge. You can even sell your photos for any price you choose as downloads or physically printed products. But you're reading this and probably thinking 'What's new about this? Nothing particularly revolutionary here!' But...

These updates are live New updated ad codes are now in place stopping the 'unsecured script' error 'Trending' now links to recently uploaded

A number of people have commented on some of the pictures posted in my post on various social media sites and have asked how the pictures like the examples below are created: The images above show Batemans, Rudyard Kipling's house in Burwash Sussex - the main house at Scotney Castle and Etchingham Church, all viewed in a slightly different way to normal.   How to do it and what you need: These...

Have you ever gone to an event, photo shoot or otherwise taken a load of photos, got home looked at them and they are slightly out of focus? Yes? Well welcome to the club! Mike explains the top 5 things you can do to ensure your photos are pin sharp: We almost all use digital cameras these days. These have a handy device at the back which is an LCD screen. When you have taken your photo, just...

We here at ClickASnap often have people approaching us about being able to or not being able to download photos off of our site. Whilst we do everything possible to protect your images, once posted online there is no where safe for them. Even if you cannot right click download a photo, one can simply press the 'prtsc' button that every computer has, open up paint press 'ctrl-V' and you have...

ClickASnap is an incredibly complex platform with a huge amount of features available to it's users, including earning money when photos are viewed, selling photos, giving them away as downloads, selling downloads, interacting with users in our forums and feeds, commenting on photos, emailing systems, server expansion systems, compression servers, image processing servers, servers for blogs...

Welcome to the ClickASnap beta site, a move on from the ClickASnap Alpha site that we have been using for the last 6 months. We have 3 more development phases to go through, RC1, RC2 and 'Gold' These will bring in the features we promised earlier including updated feeds, profile, album modifications and more over the next 3 months This rebuild has been designed for several reasons, we want to...

I must admit, one of the things that I really love about photography is the equipment, the high end lenses, flashes that have t1 durations of a millionth of a second, or a camera that can take a trillion frames per second. My favourite lenses are telephotos, they enable you to get right up close to the action and show you detail that you can never get with a smart phone or smaller lens. Of...

So, you went out and bought that camera you have been eyeing for ages! Whether it be a point and shoot or a state of the art Canon DSLR and a range of lenses, you're sat there and wondering 'just how long is it going to take to learn how to use this!' The truth is, holding a camera in ones hand no more makes you a photographer than holding a knife in your hand makes you a surgeon. Whilst...

Every now and then a topic comes up in the ClickASnap forum that I believe deserves some in deeper research, and a more detailed explanation. A recent topic involved the payments per view, and that this individual seriously believed they could never make a living out of our per view payments system on the site. So to explore this in depth I thought I would compare it to some famous YouTube...

What's the main difference between an incident meter and the light meter in your camera? Well the incident meter measures light where you place it, the light meter in your camera measures the actual light entering your camera lens so it likely to be much more accurate. If you haven't used an incident meter before they take a light reading from a point dictated by you. Simply by clicking a...

Time to put fingers to keys again! This year has been a roller coaster of a ride. As many of you are aware, or may be aware, we have spent the last 6 months or so rebuilding the ClickASnap site with a whole range of features. Firstly, I would like to thank our 100,000 or so monthly users who have put up with bug's, downtime, technical issues and more as we have gone from that first launch, and...

There is a myth that when doing landscape photography you really need a wide angle lens, such as the 10mm lens we talk about in an earlier post. One of our favourite lenses here is the 70-200mm Canon F2.8 II L USM, the lens is optically superb and the quality of the pictures outstanding. The photo below was taken with the aforementioned lens last night in Wimborne, overlooking the hills of...

As you may have already read, recently we acquired a pretty cool bit of kit, the Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 Macro lens with 5x magnification! This weekend I had a bit of spare time and thought 'let's see what some normal household goods look like at magnification' So, set the camera up, spent a brief bit of time drooling over a Stackshot and then continued on photographing everything I could get my...

The Christmas festivities are almost in full swing; the seasonal tunes are trickling their way onto the radio, the mince pies are a daily occurrence, and our Christmas trees are soon to be pride of place in our living room. So, that means only one thing. It’s time to start snapping all things Christmas! We’ve asked USB 4 Photographers to share their top tips for giving your photos a sprinkle...