Which photo website to use

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At present I use Flickr for my photo sharing. I have googledrive, dropbox & Onedrive as well but all used for seperate things.

I like Flickr (not the new version) but I can't see a way to control who sees my pictures. I like the idea of having pictures in groups so certain restriction can be enforced I.e. 100% public, only certain people can view, hide or show exif or location data.

Can Flickr do this or is there a better option?
 
Hi Peter, I was using Flickr and had 2,349 photos on there but then last year they messed the layout up so I went over to 500px so you could consider that as an option.
 
Facebook will let you control stuff. But it degrades photos pretty badly. Apparently this is where most sociable people (and also your customers) hang out. I still don't love it.

Flickr is a very public resource. It attracts both genuine enquires and lots of copyright infringement. You can set visibility to friends or family only if it helps. I too don't like the new interface, and I am not so keen on focus to mobile / instagram quality content.

500px looks cool, but it gives me no business, but even more theft. So flickr wins hands down.

Don't forget your own website. At the end of the day it is where you want to see customers. Perhaps post some updates on FB or twitter to encourage your followers to pay a visit.

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Picasa lets you choose who sees each album separately
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Isn't this Google+ now? You can still access the old interface, but everyone else will go to the new interface by default. It is good for sharing "content" with all control option but probably doesn't represent quality photography as it should :(
 
Thanks for all the info. I will probably stay with Flickr by the look of it I just wish it had just a little bit more control. I am trying to avoid google even though I'm android enabled.
I actually use Onedrive (skydrive) for all my photos but I do not share this with anyone. I like how Flickr lets others view at different resolutions and shows exif, I just dont like it showing it all the time. I will have to setup some different tools in LR to strip data depending on what I want people to see.
 
What about Photobucket?

I have set all my albums to private but you can set privacy options to each individual album. It has a particularly easy interface and is very fast for posting images. I don't have any adverts on my subscription.
 
Peter69 said:
I will have to setup some different tools in LR to strip data depending on what I want people to see.
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There is or was a photostream-wide posting option within flickr to hide exif data ....
 
I'll check photobucket & pix out.

I know I can block all data in Flickr but sometimes I want others to see the data for example when I post for in here. Most of the time I don't geotags appearing and definitely no private tags.
 
daugirdas said:
Isn't this Google+ now? You can still access the old interface, but everyone else will go to the new interface by default. It is good for sharing "content" with all control option but probably doesn't represent quality photography as it should :(
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No It's still separate from Google+. I still have the old interface, and I just recently signed up with a completely new user ID and it's all still the same interface as before. Nothing Google+ there at all.

Yes, it's a good thing to want to stay away from all things Google. But as long as Picasa works as it always has I think it has no disadvantage. But even though my pictures are all public anyway, who knows if they are showing them all on Google+ somewhere?
 
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I have loaded the Picasa sw but struggling with the UI atm. I've looked at all the suggestions and will probably stay on Flickr. Some of the more professional sites are perfect but annual charges are too much for me.
I use WLPG for my exported jpegs as I like the UI especially the way it handles people tags geo data & tags. It is feeling a bit slow but I'm guessing thats my NAS drive which hold the 70gb of photos. Onedrive is cheap and fast (much faster then Gdrive is to upload) so I can see my photos anywhere.

I just wish that Flickr would actually read & act on its feature request polls.
 
Yes, I don't use the Picasa software. I don't like the way it organises the pictures. I use Digikam for organising and picture editing as well as uploading direct into Picasa or Flikr right from the Digikam UI. You can also plug-in any other editor or RAW developer you need. Meaning your whole process runs from Digikam.
 
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I am looking for ways of storing my hi res images in the cloud - do any of these companies allow for this?
 
Jo I use a paid Onedrive account 100gb storage. Gdrive is cheaper. Dropbox is safer (delete protection & versioning). They are online storages but no good for showing of your work.

From the advice I recieved there are several but the good ones charge but some protect your property and can sell your photos too.
Warning: 500px will absorb you just looking at other photos. Some amazing work on that site.
 
Peter69 said:
Jo I use a paid Onedrive account 100gb storage. Gdrive is cheaper. Dropbox is safer (delete protection & versioning). They are online storages but no good for showing of your work.

From the advice I recieved there are several but the good ones charge but some protect your property and can sell your photos too.
Warning: 500px will absorb you just looking at other photos. Some amazing work on that site.
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Zenfolio have unlimited storage, allow RAW files to be stored and Video files as well
 
I am leaning towards Zenfolio tbh - £50 pa is not much for what you get :-)
 
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