Another Dock Dogs and a question

[Clovishound]

The Pup and I attended the Sportsman Expo yesterday in Conway SC. The goal was take more Dock Dogs pictures. While there I was approached by several of the participants (the owners, not the dogs), interested in getting some images of the dogs in action. At this point I'm not interested in selling, but would enjoy giving images to those that are interested. One of the individuals floated the idea of getting the Pup and I press credentials for next year, allowing us better access while shooting. I have lots of photos to go through, and am looking at the logistics of allowing multiple folks the opportunity to view, and perhaps download the images. I don't use a photo hosting site, and don't want to use something like Facebook or Instagram.

Any suggestions for a free site?

Here are a few. I have lots and lots and lots of images to go through and potentially edit.

 

[BF Hammer]

Nice photos Clovis, and the dog owners certainly should have a way to see them, or even get a copy.

If you have registered your Nikon cameras online, you have benefits that come with that. That includes photo hosting on Nikon Image Space. You get free storage that can be upgraded as you need. Individual albums can be shared to an email address, X, Facebook, or the link to the album can be pasted into a text (or website) for anybody that requests. The album sharing toolbox also will generate a QR code that can be printed out and carried with you. The trick it does not do is share individual images for posting on forums such as this. That is also true of Google Photos.

I made a change in my "branding" last Christmas when I created my 2026 calendars. I made a public portfolio photo album on my Nikon Image Space account and I now have business cards (printed at Vistaprint) with my own email and the link to that portfolio printed as well as the QR code so a person can just scan with a phone and be viewing my photos in a tap or 2. The printed out link on back side is for the people who are afraid of scanning strange QR codes. But my idea was that when people ask to see my photos I am taking, I hand them my card and ask them to send an email and I can reply with either the photo of interest or put it in an album to share and send the link back. Nikon Image Space allows downloading of photos from shares, at full resolution that it is uploaded with. Better than Google. Public Portfolio of Chris Larson

Google is an option also. I might even recommend creating a dedicated gmail account as your photography brand account to keep your personal info more private. Flickr is still out there and people still use it too. I do have an account that came linked to my Yahoo mail, but I never did anything with it. I did look into 500px nearly a decade ago, but that is not the kind of service for me.

ps: for online photo hosting to forums I do use Imgur.com. It is free, but a pain for creating albums and managing them. Kind of easy to upload to. What it lacks for sharing individually, it makes up for with the easy hyperlinks to copy and paste.

 

[Clovishound]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

 

[tonye]

WhatsApp for sharing images, you can send as many as you like and then let whomever order full size prints from you. Time is money. 35% on top of cost to you seems about right. Word will soon get around.

 

[Clovishound]

For now, I'm just giving them the images. I'm not ready to this professionally at this time.

I went ahead and created an Imgur account and uploaded the photos I've edited so far. I'll figure out how to send higher rez files if anyone wants to make prints. I'm letting them use them without strings except to credit me if they publish them somewhere.

 

[Clovishound]