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YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF PHOTO WEBSITE ADVICE & INSPIRATION.
IN TODAY’S EMAIL:
⚡️ 3 Quick tips: publishing your archive, brand color as a signal, testimonials that get seen
🧠 Main Topic: Deleting your pricing page doesn’t create mystery, it creates a dead end
📷 Website Spotlight: Gary Lun Photography
🔍 SEO: Google reads your logo’s alt text as your homepage headline
🌐 From the Trenches: Getty x OpenAI, a fellow reviewer’s mistake list, PhotoBizX 674
QUICK TIPS
📸 Your best photo doesn’t have an expiration date
"Won't people know these are old?"
That worry has talked more photographers out of publishing than any algorithm ever has.
A photographer told me recently he'd gone quiet for almost two years. Slow season, a few life things, no new sessions. He had a strong back catalogue but couldn't bring himself to put any of it online. It felt dishonest, like passing off old work as current.
So I asked him the obvious thing: who is actually going to know? A stranger comparing photographers in your area can't tell when a frame was captured. Good light doesn't carry a timestamp. They're deciding whether the work is strong and whether it looks like what they want for themselves. A great image from a few years back answers both, same as one from last month.
The shelf-life fear is mostly invented. The only photos that genuinely expire are the weak ones you've outgrown, and those were never going up anyway. Your best ten frames from three years ago are still your best ten frames.
A quiet patch is a publishing problem you can fix from your hard drive today. It's not a reason to disappear.
What's the strongest image you've been quietly holding back because it feels too old?
🎨 Your accent color isn’t a taste decision, it’s a signal
You probably picked your brand color because you liked it. Or it carried over from your old wedding logo.
Your buyer doesn't read it that way.
I was on a call this week with an architecture and commercial shooter who was stuck on color. My honest take: in that corner of the market, blue does quiet work. Corporate and architecture buyers register it as competent and professional before they read a single word.
Red on the same site reads as loud. Green pulls toward nature and eco. Neither is wrong, they just say something to your buyer that you might not mean.
So flip the question. Not "what color do I like," but "what does the outcome my buyer is paying for look like in their head, and which hue points at it."
Then get out of the way. Dark text, light or cream background, one accent, maybe one contrast color. The accent earns attention because everything around it stays quiet.
A wedding photographer and a commercial architecture shooter shouldn't reach for the same swatch. Their buyers aren't buying the same feeling.
