need a name for my website..help!

What's wrong with www.evanoakowski.com or www.evanowakowskiphotography.com (or some variation of that)? My site is www.karenlippowithsphotography.com and Lippowiths is a tongue-twister (and misspelled 100% of the time) but it doesn't seem to hurt.

Pricing is a whole different ball game. We would probably need to see some of the shots and, more importantly, you need to determine the margins on how to make a profit (in other words, don't go by what we say here).

Good luck :)

Karen Lippowiths (wishing my husband's last name was Smith)

thanks.

yea. i might just use my name in the end. or i might register two sites, one with my name and the other being something else and just link them. or have one simpler url that is something like evasphotos.com or photosbyeva.com

i love your site by the way. i would love to do some children's photography. you've got a lot of really beautiful photos on there.

Name? Do you want people to find it by YOU as author, or the YOUR PHOTOS by the subject, or YOUR PHOTO SERVICES by an arbitrary name that you will build recognition of over time, like "blinkbox photos" or "razberries" (just inventing). If you plan to make money and execute transactions, consider the TRADEMARK value of your name, of your mark in trade, for your product or services. I also consider where I'll appear in the yellow pages and in people's Rolodex, alphabetically. Naming something is a rather involved challenge.

"AAAA Photography"

Right. Moving on ...

I tend to like generic, descriptive web page titles:

"Eva Nowakowski Photography"

... then have click-able categories on that page after your prime all-purpose "portfolio" of your "best" shots.

Last name too long or "arbitrary"? I use my first given names:

"Peter Blaise Photography"

... people will find me two ways. Friends will go because I direct them. Googlers will go because I wrote good descriptions on each page and submitted them to Google.

http://www.google.com/addurl/

How about locale names?

"Eva Chicago Photography"

"Eva LA Photography"

... or some other location moniker might work, so long as you don't move. BUT, I'd expect to find photography of only that area there, or at least copious photography of that area.

"Eva Photography"

"Eva Smith Photography"

"Eva the Great Photography"

"Queen Eva Photography"

You may have to browse and search for other people's photography web sites to see what turns you on and turns you off, and adapt and adopt from there. Google search for [photography portfolio]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=photography+portfolio

= 1,080,000 pages to review. See ya later! ;-)

Random name?

"Omega Photo Works"

What does THAT say?

Naming things is tough, especially if you want a fictitious name. Keep us informed of your choices, what you do, and how you resolve this. AND a link, please!

Google search [how to pick a good trademark name]

(link)

= 318,000 pages to read! ;-)

concertography.com ;-)

Catchy, Sarah :)

Karen

First things first: if it's still available, register your name. Then if someone does know your name, s/he can find you.

www.Evatography.com www.evaphotography.com Both are not currently being used and easy to remember

Wow. Definitely jump on evaphotography right now.

I fourth evaphotography.com though concertography was clever too.

Concertography.com is in use but for sale

when i type evaphotography.com into google it forwards me to a random person's photo site. :(

i could do photosbyeva.com or evaphotos.com maybe

looks like all of those are taken too when i type them into google

evasphotography.com is not taken.

im checking urls on godaddy.com i always buy url names on that site.

evatography is up for grabs and so is evasphotography.com

i like concertography and i can make them an offer for it when i go to that address, but it will probably be more than i would like to spend.

hmm..what else?

EvaNow.com - it has an immediacy to it, ie NOW, is short, and is pretty much your name. Plus it can be pronounced easily unlike some of the other suggestions. Doesn't have 'ography' in it though.

hmm.

what about something using photography keywords/buzzwords/camera concepts or parts in the name?

shutterbuggery is taken but www.shutterbugery.com with the one G is not.

FSTOPHOTOGRAPHY.COM is available with a single p in the middle, fstopphotography with a double p is taken.

hmm what else? im trying to think of some good photo related terms...

a friend of mine is a concert photographer and i like his name a lot, his site is called rhythmic photography.

for a while i thought of using Sonic Photography but that is taken.

youd be hard pressed to find a cheap 6 letter domain. I would include loaction and genre. Like: www.bostonconcertphotography.com laconcertpics.biz keep your options open on the biz, info, com side too. if a domain is too expensive as a dot com, try something else. If your the first, its unlikely that someone will choose the same but with a dot com, thats a risky investment.

Methinks you fuss too much.

Shutterbuggery? Are you being serious? You do know what buggery is - yes? If not look it up!

As for using camera parts or concepts in the name - it might tickle you but your clients may not be that techy. Its you they're 'buying' not a camera part - they can get that from anyone. You however are YOU - and are unique, so capitalize on that fact and make your name/site memorable.

What about soundphotography.com or alterations like sound-photography.com. It seems to be up for sale or not registered. It would allure to music and good proficiency and would still be a good name if you deviate from concert images.

Cheers,

Carsten

PhotoForte or FotoForte (I assume you photograph mostly loud bands?)

Forte Photo

Rhythm Photography

PhotoRhythm

Or look here for ideas:

http://www.naxos.com/education/glossary.asp

OvationPhoto? EncorePics? PhotoJam?

enow.com

I struggled with the same issues earlier this year, trying to come up with a name for a website about nature photography. How about lensonconcerts, windowonconcerts, lensonsound, windowonsound? I checked these and they seem to be available.

Here's a helpful site which has advice on choosing a URL name: . http://www.4creatingawebsite.com/

how about www.evalens.com EVA LENS- that won't box you into the music thing because you never know where you will be or where your work can take you.

Adagio.com Allegro.com Momentum.com

My last name is something most of the people get wrong no matter where I go. I still chose www.korkeakoski.org (.com, .net etc. were taken but I am actually quite alright with .org in the end) - I think you having such a cool and different last name I think www.nowakowski.com would be great.

In my opinion shorter you can keep it better it will be.

Eva, your name is beautiful and unique.Your name is YOU. You must be proud of your name. Who cares if someone can't or simply does not want to at least try to pronounce your name correctly. Your business partners and/or customers will use your first name almost 100% of time anyways. Your business and web site MUST have your name, at least as part of it. It is face of your business. Putting your name on it shows that you take pride in your work, as any true artis should. It is true that the site needs to be on one of the first pages of the search engine (actually, first one, period). But this can be achieved by other means, than messing the name. Think about 10 year later. Do you want people know you by your name, or you'd like it better to explain that some you_name_it_blah_blah.com is actually you. Good luck.

By the way, I tried to misspell your name in Google before I posted my last post. It offered me a correct option and borought me back to this thread.

For all it's worth, my domain is www.graphic-fusion.com. That would seem simple enough, right? But note the hyphen in the middle. I had no idea, before committing myself to this domain name, how difficult it is to explain to people that it's neither graphicfusion, graphic_fusion, nor graphic.fusion. In fact you would be surprised how many people can't spell either graphic or fusion: grafick, graphick, grafic / fushion, fuson, fushin. I recently requested an email from someone, and after carefully dictating and clarifying the email address three times, with three failed attempts to email me, I finally had to use another person's email address on a different domain to get the email. Ridiculous!

My advice is to keep your domain name as simple and spellable as possible. Don't assume people will be able to spell your name, even when you spell it for them. Before committing to a domain name, try dictating it to a dozen people first. Seriously!

im starting to really like evatography. i definitely dont want a mouthful or something that is hard to spell/say. that's why i dont want my long polish last name in the equation.

imagesbyeva.com is also available. i kind of like that too.

i was looking into ampliedphotos or amplifiedphotography but they are both taken.

Go with what you like. It's important for you to feel strong about your name. It will only help you to attract new business and clients.

Evatography is easy one the eyes and ears and it is unique. Go for it if the .com is available.

Evaography? Evagraphy? Good luck Eva.

i think i am going to go with Evatography. I feel good about it. I like my first name and it is general and doesnt box me in with one kind of photography. It also is easy to spell I think and kind of rolls off the tongue easily.

My boyfriend is a computer nerd and web designer/programmer and we've started designing it already. Once it is up I will post a link for sure.