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Using Social Media Video to Attract New Clients

In today’s digital landscape, social media is a powerful platform for reaching and engaging with potential clients. One of the most effective ways to capture attention and build relationships is through social media video content. By leveraging the unique features of social media platforms, you can create compelling videos that attract new clients and enhance your brand’s visibility. Here’s how you can use social media video to attract new clients.

Create Engaging and Relevant Content

To attract new clients, your videos need to be engaging and relevant to your target audience. Start by identifying the interests and pain points of …

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Entries Sought for Ocean Photo Contest
















Entries Sought for Ocean Photo Contest – State of Delaware News




























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Epik’s AI Yearbook app is taking over social media

Social media users are leaning in to nostalgia and posting new yearbook photos — but they aren’t going back to school to get them taken.

Epik, an AI photo editing app, has gone viral for its AI Yearbook feature, which delivers 60 different images of a person using eight to 12 of their submitted selfies. The AI-generated photos showcase different hair styles, outfits and poses.

While the app is free to download, it costs between $5.99 to $9.99 (but as of Tuesday afternoon, it was discounted at $3.99 and $5.99) to access the photos. It’s become the latest AI trend

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Only 7.5% of photos are taken with cameras – phones now rule photography

Do you remember the days before Instagram, TikTok, and even Facebook? One of the biggest revolutions in the photographic industry came in the form of a social media asteroid wiping out traditional image sharing and production.

According to new research from Max Spielmann’s photo printing chain, over 90% of daily photos are now captured with smartphones as opposed to professional or even film cameras. In fact, only 7.5% are taken on ‘proper’ cameras. But how exactly has social media evolved (or hindered) the progression of photography?

• If you’re not using a camera, make sure you get one best camera

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Crombie’s People: Photo exhibition gives focus to those without homes

Crombie McNeill is in his happy place, behind his Nikon film camera, peering through the viewfinder.

The seasoned, grinning photographer is coaxing a smile from his subject.

“Give me a big smile, George. That’s beautiful.”

Crombie is enjoying this moment.

“I love it. Photography’s taken me around the world a couple of times,” says the 82-year-old.

“It’s just been a wonderful experience.”

McNeill was a long-time photojournalist. He worked at the former Ottawa Journal. For years, he captured images for the Canadian Press.

He’s worked in Vietnam, flown with Canada’s Snowbirds, and covered countless Olympic games.

“It was marvelous,” he

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Winner of RTÉ Eye on Nature 2023 photo competition revealed

A beautiful photograph of a rabbit licking its paw, taken by Daniel Meehan from Murroe in Co Limerick, was revealed as the winner of RTÉ’s Eye on Nature on Nationwide this evening.

Meehan’s photo was chosen from a shortlist of 10 finalists, who submitted their works in the hopes of scooping the grand prize.

Now in its third year, the competition, in association with RTÉ’s Nationwide, Mooney Goes Wild on RTÉ Radio 1 and the Office of Public Works (OPW), gives wildlife photographers across Ireland the opportunity to showcase their immense talent and showcase Ireland’s biodiversity and the beauty

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AP severs ties with photographer who altered work

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has severed ties with a freelance photographer who it says violated its ethical standards by altering a photo he took while covering the war in Syria in 2013.

In a photo taken, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, a Syrian opposition fighter takes cover during an exchange of fire with government forces in Telata village, a frontline located at the top of a mountain in the Idlib province countryside of Syria. In the original image (top photo), a fellow journalist’s video camera is visible on the ground in the left corner of the frame. Freelance
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The First Woman War Photographer to Die in the Field • Magnum Photos

On 1 August 1937, thousands of people lined the streets of Paris to mourn the death of photojournalist Gerda Taro (1910–1937): a 26-year-old Jewish émigré from Leipzig, Germany. Taro had died in Spain, while covering the Battle of Brunete, during the second year of the Spanish Civil War. Taro was a celebrated photographer and the first female photojournalist to be killed on the frontline.

Taro was eulogized as a courageous reporter who had sacrificed his life to bear witness to the suffering of civilians and troops during the Spanish Civil War. The media proclaimed her a left-wing heroine, a martyr

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