Features:

• Redesigned Homepage with interactive pulldown menus to navigate quickly and easily to any portfolio or Content Page
• You get the same great viewing experience and featureset on iPad, iPhone, or Android devices.
• Automatic detection for mobile devices allows full-screen image viewing with touch-enabled swipe gestures.
• Smart, pre-caching loads the next image while you view the current one, to make the viewing experience seem faster for slow mobile connections
• Thumbnail grid allows viewers to jump quickly to any image in your portfolio
• Captions displayed in an overlay if your images are pre-populated with them
• Animated Homepage slideshow

Check out any of our user’s websites in our Gallery on your favorite mobile device to see for yourself. Here’s a few screenshots of the experience on the iPad:

Visit TravisShinn.com!

1. What are your three must-have accessories / tools on a shoot?
A really good pair of sneakers (I love a good pair of sneakers ), multiple t-shirts (I sweat a lot), & a bandana (I really do sweat a lot).

2. What is your favorite website / blog?
ffffound.com

3. Once piece of advice you’d give to all music photographers?
A sense of humor is key, and don’t take yourself or anyone else too seriously. I mean it, seriously.

4. What are some ways you get a celebrity actors and musician to open up at a shoot, enabling you to get the shot that you want?
I shoot fast. I don’t give them too much time to think about the fact that they are getting their picture taken. Play good music.

5. Which photographer serves as your greatest source of inspiration?
My wife. She doesn’t have website. She should really start one. she is so modest about her work. She is amazing!

A winner will be selected for various categories and will receive:

• A PDN Photoserve portfolio ($860 value)
• A B&H gift card ($100 value) and one grand prize winner will receive a B&H gift card ($500 value)
• A Sony Nex Camera and one grand prize winner will receive a Sony Alpha Camera kit
• A page in the October 2011 issue of PDN, which has a distribution of over 25,000 including over 5,000 influential art buyers, photo editors and art directors
• Exposure in The Look contest online gallery hosted by Clickbooq and a Clickbooq annual plan ($588 value)
• One grand prize winner will receive a Milk Studios Prize Package worth $5,000. The package includes: one rental of Milk’s formula studio, an equipment and lighting rental and one day of Milk Digital Capture Services

For detailed information, including rules, regulations, etc., please visit the official website at www.pdnthelook.com.

Register now for Blu Wedding Magazine’s editorial fashion photography workshop in beautiful Laguna Beach,  CA  on March 21-22. This hands-on experience will be led by fashion-beauty photographer Sean Armenta and includes in-depth training on lighting, shooting and software techniques–plus a live photo shoot!

For more information, please visit http://wedblu.com/seanarmenta.

As an ongoing effort to showcase the work of clickbooq users, we had a quick Q & A with photographer Pablo Garcia.

1. What are your three must-have accessories / tools on a shoot?

California Sunbounce, Profoto 7B, and my beloved zeiss 85 1.2.

2. What is your favorite website / blog?

There so many, its hard to say, I like gadgets and technology so I visit Gizmodo and Engadget frequently.

3. One piece of advice you’d give to all wedding photographers?

Tell a story!

4. What is your greatest challenge in running your own studio?

My greatest challenge has been keeping my website up to date, always showcasing my latest work is important. That is one of the reasons I chose clickbooq, I can update them easily and frequently.

5. Who or what serves as your greatest source of inspiration for photography?

People have always been my source of inspiration, there is always an expression, a movement, a moment, an instant that captures that pure essence which makes them unique.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Pablo began toying with photography at an early age using his father’s camera. With the intention to steer him clear of photography as a career, but rather turn it into a hobby, Pablo was given his first darkroom at age 16, and has pursued his passion for photography since. Following his studies in Savannah, GA, he moved to New York to train under Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and the Starn Twins. “I love portrait photography because of its timeless quality,” Pablo says. “That is what I look for in a picture, that it withstands the test of time.” His work has been published in Vogue, Ocean Drive, Maxim, Poder, Haute Living among others. Besides photography, Pablo directs commercials and music videos, most recently the Ford Fiesta Campaign. His corporate clients include Ford, Sony Ericsson, Carolina Herrera, Microsoft, McDonalds, Sony Pictures, Univision, State Farm. He currently lives in Miami. To view his work visit pablogarciaphoto.com and noonphotography.com.

Jonathan Leijonhufvud is a China-based photographer of architecture, interiors, engineering and spatial reproductions.  Born in Sweden and raised in China, he works throughout Asia and holds offices in Beijing and Hong Kong.

Oh, and he’s also a clickbooq client.  Visit his beautifully designed website jlap.com!

Visit RyanNotch.com

Recently, we sat down with food photographer & clickbooq user Ryan Notch to get a bit more acquainted.

1. What are your three must-have accessories / tools on a shoot?

A Sekonic L558R light meter, an X-Rite ColorChecker card, and half a dozen packs of Fuji FP-100C45 instant film sheets. I find that a few minutes of preparation before the shoot saves a few hours on the computer afterward.

2. What is your favorite website / blog?

There has been such an explosion of great sites and blogs for photographers in the last few years that asking me to pick just one is a bit like Sophie’s Choice, however for inspiration and work from new artists I regularly visit sites like photo.net, jpgmag.com, and lightleaks.org. In the blog world I am an avid follower of strobist.com, stuckincustoms.com, and aphotoeditor.com.

3. Once piece of advice you’d give to all food photographers?

Align yourself and work often with a talented food stylist. Their genius will make your work look amazing!

4. You’re stranded on an island: whats the one camera you have with you?

I am assuming that I would have quite a bit of free time on said island so I would choose my Sinar F2 4×5 large-format camera. Its slow and methodical process is perfect for the isolation and self-exploration involved in the lengthy period of time that I would be waiting for a passing ship.

5. Who or what serves as your greatest source of inspiration for photography?

While it may sound relatively trite, I am continually blown away by the work of Ansel Adams, his contribution to the art form and his methodical development of the zone system. The master said it best: “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” — Ansel Adams

Ryan Notch is a San Francisco-based, award-winning photographer who specializes in food and still life imagery. His work has been featured in magazines, books and galleries both nationally and internationally. In his free time he can be found roaming the desert with his view camera or spending time with his wife and son in the beautiful City by the Bay.

As an architecture and interiors photographer, Joseph has captured New York’s most renowned residences and buildings for Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and The New York Times.

You may still be stuck on what the heck “tweets” are.  Tweets are very short messages – a maximum of 140 characters –  that can range from what you had for breakfast to breaking news about a local earthquake. Twitter describes itself as “a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing.” “Following” someone means you will receive their “tweets” on your Twitter homepage. You can follow celebrities, politicians, companies, or fellow photographers.

Twitter can be a collaborative tool – used in a work environment to let people know what you new projects you’re working on. It can be a community builder in a time when face-time’s a premium. It can also help you get instant feedback from your followers or quickly get an answer to your questions. But will Twitter actually help you land a new contract or sell more stock? The jury’s still out, but we do know it’s nice to have a place to gather for “water cooler talk” whether you’re in your studio or traveling solo for a shoot.

Read the Fashion industry’s take on Twitter: http://jcreport.com/intelligence/twitter/240309/fashions-tweeting-frenzy

Day One: Setting up the booth, the quiet before the storm!

We had a constant flow of photographers coming through our booth. Hopefully, those of you who stopped by the booth caught a demonstration of clickbooq’s web-based application and were able to learn more about what clickbooq can do for your business. We know it can be a lot to take in, especially during an information-packed weekend like WPPI.

If you have any unanswered questions, be sure to visit our website or send us an email at info@clickbooq.com. While you’re on clickbooq’s website, sign up for our monthly newsletter and a free five-day trial account. You can test drive the application and even create your website and portfolios – we’ll save your work for your new site if you decide to purchase at the end of your demo. Also, you should have received our special show promotions – use these codes by March 15th for the show discount.

Giving demos at the booth.

It was also great exhibiting alongside our partner, RedCart. RedCart’s online proofing and shopping cart system is a great fit with a clickbooq website. If you’re gearing up for a busy wedding system and looking to start selling prints, albums, and specialty products online, you’ll want to check out our website, http://clickbooq.com/proofbooq.html, for more information about signing up for proofbooq.

Tommy from RedCart.

Thanks again for coming by our booth and a special shout-out to Mark Ridout and Red Leaf Studios for lending us their amazing images and content to help with our demonstrations!