A Reinvention of Sorts
Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Terry Reinert in News
Back in Febuary, Zack Arias was the guest blogger for Scott Kelby on the Photoshop Insider blog. Instead of posting a text blog he made a video instead. That video spoke volumes to me as I am sure it did to a lot of other artists as well. If you haven’t seen the video yet, you really should go check it out… anyway, one of the things he talks about is the desire to reinvent yourself every now and then. I’ve had that feeling many times since I decided to take photography seriously so many years ago. Over the last six months or so I’ve been wanting to reinvent my blog which I’ve talked about on here from time to time. Well, it is finally that time!
This weekend this blog will be transformed in quite a few ways. Some of the changes will appear instantly. Others will only become apparent as time goes on. But instead of being cryptic and leaving you to figure it out I will go ahead and spell it all out here so you can quickly decide if you want to bookmark my blog and keep coming back or delete the bookmark, purge your cache, perform an exorcism on your computer, and go on like you’ve never heard of me before.
Change #1: My blog will be given a face transplant. I still like the theme that I am using now but it is a bit slow, dark, a little tough to read, and doesn’t have the code in place to take advantage of what WordPress has to offer. I picked up another theme from Brian Gardner over at StudioPress and have been modifying it to fit my needs over the last few days. I’ve given a few people a test drive of the new theme and they really like it so far…. it is clean, well organized, and easy to read. If you are one of my feed readers and don’t actually use the web to read my blog then this will not really affect you at all.
Change #2: I will not be using the blog to show case images that I take. For a time that is all I used the blog for but lately I have taken on the mindset that this is not really what a blog is for. There are sites like Flickr and Photobucket that make it easy to share photos. So the only time that I am going to post my photos on here is when they are part of a tutorial or I have something to say about the image that will help photographers or Photoshop users learn new tricks or skills to employ on their own work. On that note, make sure you subscribe to my Flickr photostream if you want to be kept up to date with the images I am creating during my various photo shoots and such.
Change #3: This one goes hand-in-hand with #2 above… I am going to start using the blog to post a lot more training related material such as tutorials, tips & tricks, how-to’s, FAQ’s, and those sort of things. The topics for these items are going to be pretty diverse ranging from the usual photography or Photoshop topics to hacking your WordPress blog theme to make it better and things like that. I am also going to step up the number of reviews I am writing and cover hardware as well as software that relates to the photography and Photoshop communities. I’ve already planned out a few series of posts that I think people are really going to like as well as been working on a few video tutorials.
When I first started typing this blog post I had all the changes that I had decided to make in my head and ready to write about all of them. But now that I am writing I cannot remember more than the 3 I posted above. So I guess I am going to be a little cryptic and end the post now since I just cannot remember what else I was going to do. I just hope I remember in the near future so that I can incorporate them into the blog. 
So, stay tuned people… this is going to get good! Or I am going to make one hell of an attempt at it. Either way, should be interesting and amusing.
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