Your Favorite Photo Posting Sites? (Nope. Not Trolling.)
Twibil
find a breakdown anywhere that compares services offered, user
friendliness, bang for your buck (in the case of the pay sites),
etcetera.
So with some trepidation, and no little
antici..................pation, I await your concensus.
What sites do you personally use and recommend, and why?
(Bear in mind that I can boot up a computer -and not a lot more.)
~Pete
tony cooper
<noway...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I understand that there are both free and pay sites, but I've yet to
>find a breakdown anywhere that compares services offered, user
>friendliness, bang for your buck (in the case of the pay sites),
>etcetera.
What do you expect or want to get out of a site? You look for one
type of site if you just want to display your photos, and another type
of site if you expect to sell your photos. Do you want a place to
post your photos and email links to friends and relatives, or do you
want a place where strangers will view your stuff? Do you intend to
upload galleries or do you just want an image host for a few one-off
snaps?
>(Bear in mind that I can boot up a computer -and not a lot more.)
Can you operate a camera? Please answer the following question so we
can tell:
An SD card is a:
a) identification you are required to carry if you have a sexually
transmitted disease
b) secure digital card
c) card used to obtain money from cashpoints/ATMs
d) credit card for Selfridge's Department Store.
e) all of the above
A pixel is:
a) an Australian slang word for a poofter
b) a garden ornament
c) a really tiny part of a photograph
d) a miniature tool hung on a charm bracelet
e) none of the above
White balance is:
a) global adjustment of the intensities of color
b) flight to the suburbs
c) a term used by phlebotomists
d) the ratio of Canon lenses to Nikon lenses at sporting events
e) something entirely different
The rule of thirds is:
a) found in all-you-can-eat buffets
b) about the maximum number of terms a US president can serve
c) a prediction of success for someone with an inferior Oxbridge
degree
d) a guideline for composition
e) a least one of the above
Aperture is:
a) where birds are found in the zoo
b) a cologne promoted by Paris Hilton
c) an opening through which light is admitted
d) a naughty French word
e) something else entirely
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
Twibil
> >I understand that there are both free and pay sites, but I've yet to
> >find a breakdown anywhere that compares services offered, user
> >friendliness, bang for your buck (in the case of the pay sites),
> >etcetera.
>
> What do you expect or want to get out of a site? You look for one
> type of site if you just want to display your photos, and another type
> of site if you expect to sell your photos. Do you want a place to
> post your photos and email links to friends and relatives, or do you
> want a place where strangers will view your stuff? Do you intend to
> upload galleries or do you just want an image host for a few one-off
> snaps?
I want to know what's out there -right across the spectrum; which
sites various DSLR users favor, and *why* they favor them. (The more
knowledge you have, the better decisions you can make.)
That's why I asked the question the way I did.
> >(Bear in mind that I can boot up a computer -and not a lot more.)
>
> Can you operate a camera?
Since I was about eight, when I was first introduced to a darkroom.
That's circa 58 years so far, but of course it was still going to be
several more years before I took my first underwater shots while skin-
diving (1960), or took action stills and 8mm movies of sports-car
racing with cameras mounted on my own car (1966), or took the photos
that illustrated the various articles I sold to national publications
as a free-lance writer (mostly 1976-1990), so I suppose you could say
that I'm no Ansel Adams.
And you?
(I ask because it seems you may have been too busy writing satiric
humor to spend a lot of time on your photography...)
~Pete
Pete D
"Twibil" <noway...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Pete,
What do you want to use one of these sites for?
Share with family, share with the world, sell to the world, get feedback,
show off?
Cheers.
Pete
whisky-dave
"Twibil" <noway...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> find a breakdown anywhere that compares services offered, user
> friendliness, bang for your buck (in the case of the pay sites),
> etcetera.
>
> So with some trepidation, and no little
> antici..................pation, I await your concensus.
>
> What sites do you personally use and recommend, and why?
I use flick'r because my firneds do and it's a good way of excghanging
photos
of what we've been up to (well within legal limits anyway :) )
I use the free service because presently I don;t want to pay for one.
Ic onsidered photbucket but found the layout confusing, haven't tried any
others.
tony cooper
<noway...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Feb 26, 9:54 pm, tony cooper <tony_cooper...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> >I understand that there are both free and pay sites, but I've yet to
>> >find a breakdown anywhere that compares services offered, user
>> >friendliness, bang for your buck (in the case of the pay sites),
>> >etcetera.
>>
>> What do you expect or want to get out of a site? You look for one
>> type of site if you just want to display your photos, and another type
>> of site if you expect to sell your photos. Do you want a place to
>> post your photos and email links to friends and relatives, or do you
>> want a place where strangers will view your stuff? Do you intend to
>> upload galleries or do you just want an image host for a few one-off
>> snaps?
>
>I want to know what's out there -right across the spectrum; which
>sites various DSLR users favor, and *why* they favor them. (The more
>knowledge you have, the better decisions you can make.)
Google tells you what's out there. To paraphrase you, the more
knowledge we have of what you are looking for, the better we can
provide a recommendation. It's a waste of time for someone to reply
about a site that doesn't allow ordering from the site if you want to
sell your work.
>>
>> Can you operate a camera?
>
>(I ask because it seems you may have been too busy writing satiric
>humor to spend a lot of time on your photography...)
So you failed the test. Here's a make-up question:
What is aspect ratio?
a) a recipe for a dish made with gelatine and meat stock
b) a criteria for judging swim suit models
c) the relationship of length and width
d) the statistical measurement of two short planks
e) something like that
Matt Ion
I have accounts on Flikr, Photobucket, Tinypic, and deviantART, and have
my own webserver that use for posting photos as well (actually, two
different webservers with three different PHP-based gallery programs,
from various stages of testing and just mucking about)...
And the one I use 95% of the time is Google's PicasaWeb, because I find
Picasa fits 95% of my quick-organizing-and-tweaking needs, and makes
uploading to the gallery or to my Facebook quick and easy.
tony cooper
<whisk...@final.front.ear> wrote:
>I use the free service because presently I don;t want to pay for one.
>Ic onsidered photbucket but found the layout confusing, haven't tried any
>others.
You might want to take another look at Photobucket. It's really
dead-simple to use. You log in, go to "Upload Images & Video",
(making sure that "from: my computer" is checked), navigate to the
location of the file in your computer, and click "open". The file
uploads. One click on the "Direct Link" and you have copied the URL
and can paste it into a newsgroup posting, email, or website.
The difference between Photobucket and Flickr is that Photobucket is
normally used just as a photo host and Flickr is a photo host and an
easily accessible public venue. This is not an absolute, but it's how
the two are generally used.
If you want to send an image to friends and family by providing a link
in email, use an image in your home page, use an image in an eBay ad,
or otherwise use a URL to link to your image, then Photobucket is a
quick and simple way to do it. If you want to put up images in a
gallery-type format for anyone to see and comment on, then Flickr
would be one way to do it. While Flickr can be used for the first
purpose, I personally prefer Photobucket for this.
I use Photobucket for single image links and SmugMug for my gallery
photos. I also like File Avenue for single image links, but some
Anti-Virus programs alert when File Avenue is accessed. It seems to
be a false positive, but some people will not open File Avenue links.
ray
I prefer my own personal web site where I can do what I want for a fixed
fee - $5/month with netfirms.
GregS
I keep seeing an old website, I guess free, that has not been shut off since the owner died
on netfirms.
Well last I looked I have at least 300GB storage on my Ipower website.
If you pay on a 2 year basis, its about $6 mo.
What does Comcast give you, I have not figured that out because I have not investigated.
Its rare to see web pages on Comcast webspace. I know they took away USENET.
Its free. I see 1 GB from some source, but I have not been able to do anything
yeat after enabling Comcast webspace.
I mostly use ACDSee to generate thumnailed picture viewing.
greg
GregS
If you use your own site, you can make thumails any size and pictures any size.
greg
GregS
Most all web providers provide free web space. I took a few moments and
set up my FREE Comcast space.
Here is what I set up.
https://home.comcast.net/~zekor/home/page_01.htm
greg
GregS
GregS
GregS
GregS
Right now my Ipower site seems at least 10 times faster than Comcast.
Both
ray
You seem to talk to yourself a lot.
Twibil
> So you failed the test. Here's a make-up question:
And here's one for you: In 250 words or less, explain exactly what
sort of ignorant twit thinks it's his job to assign homework to other
posters?
You have 30 seconds from............now.
tony cooper
Is that an assignment?
Frank ess
Well, at least he has something of value to say, in contrast with your
effort (and mine, now that I mention it).
--
Frank ess
Frank ess
news:074575da-cf08-4e1d...@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
> I understand that there are both free and pay sites, but I've yet to
> find a breakdown anywhere that compares services offered, user
> friendliness, bang for your buck (in the case of the pay sites),
> etcetera.
>
> So with some trepidation, and no little
> antici..................pation, I await your concensus.
>
> What sites do you personally use and recommend, and why?
Because I don't want to make a career of Web design, and have a
tendency to learn just enough of a site or program to get it to meet
my minimal requirements:
I use flickr for its quick, easy access; I pretty much ignore the
social and critical aspects, and some nonsense they spout about
credits upon linking to your photos on flickr from your Web pages.
My default site for keeping (and linking-to) images is FotoTime.com. I
have something like ten thousand images there, as well as a few movie
files, in about two gigs of a four-gig allowance. Paid yearly, about
two bucks a month. Allowed bandwidth is five times disc space. Free
trial. Not much help for organizing and finding individual images
(maybe it does better than I think; I haven't really explored it all,
since my needs are relatively simple, if large).
FotoTime is very good with regard to availability (almost never
"down"), excellent in quick response to questions; response (loading
time) has improved over the years and is now close among the quicker
sites, I think.
FotoTime allows you to restrict users to viewing individual images or
albums or a selection of albums, as well as the entire content. It
also offers a sales feature where visitors can order prints and
novelties with your images imprinted, and the service pays you the
minimum you specify as part of the price.
An image:
http://www.fototime.com/BFAD8A19408ED9C/orig.jpg
An album:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/F0EECC8DC41115D
Another:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/1CA967EF42209C2
A selection of albums:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/4027F8BD896E34A
My Web pages are on the TW Cable Roadrunner servers, where space is
limited, so the HTML and thumbnails reside there, with the "full"
files on Fototime. OK, a few on flickr, also. Like this one:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2864232406_b44a9b298f_o.jpg
This is what a Web page looks like, with links to FotoTime albums and
files:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~fsheff/rirpicts.htm
Works for me.
--
Frank ess
Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
? "Twibil" <noway...@gmail.com> ?????? ??? ??????
news:074575da-cf08-4e1d...@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
<my account> www.esnips.com/web/dimtzortsphotos
is free and doesn't need registration to view the photos, very important
because a friend of mine who lives in Scotland uses snapfish and it needs
registration, which I personally find very annoying.
--
Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
major in electrical engineering
mechanized infantry reservist
hordad AT otenet DOT gr
Paul Furman
> Twibil wrote:
>
>> (Bear in mind that I can boot up a computer -and not a lot more.)
>
>
> a) an Australian slang word for a poofter
>
> b) a garden ornament
>
> c) a really tiny part of a photograph
>
> d) a miniature tool hung on a charm bracelet
>
> e) none of the above
Ha ha, those were funny ;-)
-I noticed you did give a serious answer below...
--
Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
www.baynatives.com
all google groups messages filtered due to spam
AnthonyL
wrote:
>
>Here, work your way through this:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo_sharing_websites
What a good answer. Very useful.
--
AnthonyL
Twibil
> I use flick'r because my firneds do and it's a good way of excghanging
> photos
> of what we've been up to (well within legal limits anyway :) )
>
> I use the free service because presently I don;t want to pay for one.
> Ic onsidered photbucket but found the layout confusing, haven't tried any
> others.
Thanx, Dave.
Twibil
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:56:28 -0800 (PST), Twibil
>
> >On Feb 27, 5:57 am, tony cooper <tony_cooper...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >> So you failed the test. Here's a make-up question:
>
> >And here's one for you: In 250 words or less, explain exactly what
> >sort of ignorant twit thinks it's his job to assign homework to other
> >posters?
>
> >You have 30 seconds from............now.
>
> Is that an assignment?
Sure.
And having failed the test, you've learned something.
Twibil
(snip)
> An image:http://www.fototime.com/BFAD8A19408ED9C/orig.jpg
Aha! The trackplan for the now-defunct Riverside Raceway overlayed on
a pic of the mall and suburban sprawl that now infest the same area!
I used to race there, once upon a time. (Crashed in turn 6 once, too.)
(snip)
> Works for me.
Thanx, Frank! That took me back!
~Pete
Twibil
wrote:>
> www.esnips.com
> <my account>www.esnips.com/web/dimtzortsphotos
> is free and doesn't need registration to view the photos, very important
> because a friend of mine who lives in Scotland uses snapfish and it needs
> registration, which I personally find very annoying.
Thanks!
~Pete
Twibil
> Here, work your way through this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo_sharing_websites
BINGO!
Thanx, er, Savage.
tony cooper
wrote:
>On Feb 27, 11:59 am, tony cooper <tony_cooper...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Yes, I learned that you haven't discovered Google and self-help.