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sepiareverb
genius and moron
Thanks. They are chemigrams on Azo postcard paper.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
I have many pages on my sites that have no link, so only by guessing the address can anyone find them. I have images for family to see on several of them that remain, but I've used these pages to get images to a clients eyes without having to email dozens of jpegs. Make the page, send the client a link, and delete the page when the utility is done.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
A nice thing about having your own site is that you can quickly and easily move the entire thing to another hosting company if the one you've been using closes, starts giving poor service, etc.
If you have photos on a photo site service like Photobucket or Flickr, and you decide to go elsewhere, you have to reupload all of your photos and retype all your descriptions, keywords, titles, categories, etc.
I have all the files for my site on my computer, and I make frequent backups of the database on the server that holds all of the site's data. If I decide to go to a new host, I transfer my domain name to the new host, and upload all of the files to the new server. The upload can be done all at once with Dreamweaver or an FTP program (and there are several good, free FTP programs available). Takes about an hour for my site, due to the huge number of photos I have.
willie_901
Veteran
Cloud computing is not inherently dangerous. Banks and other highly regulated businesses use cloud computing. Cloud solutions augment other data management and sharing strategies. Being responsible for your own data and Cloud solutions are not mutually exclusive strategies. Only a fool would leave their data totally "in the hands of another". Being responsible for your own data and Cloud solutions are not mutually exclusive strategies.
Sharing images via a hosted, web site does give one total control. Even if the hosting company goes belly up or imposes intolerable changes in their business plan, you can just move the whole thing to a new host. Domain names can be automatically renewed. Or you can pay a small fee to have them automatically parked should you forget to renew. However, you have to produce the web site. Web site production can be straightforward unless you are unwilling to accept templates as they are. Customized site designs can be time consuming to produce or expensive.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Thanks Bob and Chris for the help.
Another photog I know makes specific websites to target clients. In a way this reinforces what Bob does.
I do like having control over my rights and do not like giving them away.
I do lots of photography for my gal who is a fashion blogger. I figure I only get credit about 20% of the time and shots get lifted and reposted all the time without even photo credits. Even when magazines and broadcast news screw up the credits (BBC) and give me credit for another photog's work, or they misspell my three letter last name. (ID magazine) LOL.
My gal's blog has 222K followers so I know all about all the theiving, lifting, and reposting that is out of control. What do you guys do to protect yourselves? Watermarking? Low resolution? My gal is at a point where even her blog got hijacked and someone basically posted an entire website posing as her.
Cal
Another photog I know makes specific websites to target clients. In a way this reinforces what Bob does.
I do like having control over my rights and do not like giving them away.
I do lots of photography for my gal who is a fashion blogger. I figure I only get credit about 20% of the time and shots get lifted and reposted all the time without even photo credits. Even when magazines and broadcast news screw up the credits (BBC) and give me credit for another photog's work, or they misspell my three letter last name. (ID magazine) LOL.
My gal's blog has 222K followers so I know all about all the theiving, lifting, and reposting that is out of control. What do you guys do to protect yourselves? Watermarking? Low resolution? My gal is at a point where even her blog got hijacked and someone basically posted an entire website posing as her.
Cal
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
Trouble with PhotoBucket, Flickr, and most every other photo hosting is that you are stuck with them. Hard to backup. Hard to move to another site. Even if you could, all your links would be broken.
My solution is same as Chris's. I have a registered domain, I hire out the hosting. I can move my domain easily to another hosting provider. Once my domain is moved, all the existing links will continue to work. This requires some IT skill or a hired gun.
Sorry to hear these problems for our photoBucket-using friends.
My solution is same as Chris's. I have a registered domain, I hire out the hosting. I can move my domain easily to another hosting provider. Once my domain is moved, all the existing links will continue to work. This requires some IT skill or a hired gun.
Sorry to hear these problems for our photoBucket-using friends.
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
... and you would still have the problem of hundreds of links on sites like RFF that point to the old provider.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
As it was mentioned already, personal web site is the only answer. But, to me, personally, it is not so easy. Even if I did some HTML web pages. I guess, the right way is single page and bunch of specialized, galleries. But even sizing of images on your own site is not as easy as it seems. It must be auto-re-sizable for different browsers and big screens, phones.
Isn't it not the first time? Was it photobucket on very similar and adequately crappy something else which collapsed some years ago?
Google has two major failures. To pursue FB on social network, they were pushing gmail users to it without choice. And they abandoned their image hosting year or two ago. Paid image hosting. Their remote team decided what it is too much work for them and while images are still somewhere in the dusty corner of Google guts, they are not shareable anymore. The image link is blocked by Google. But, at least, they kept old links after downgrading.
Isn't it not the first time? Was it photobucket on very similar and adequately crappy something else which collapsed some years ago?
Google has two major failures. To pursue FB on social network, they were pushing gmail users to it without choice. And they abandoned their image hosting year or two ago. Paid image hosting. Their remote team decided what it is too much work for them and while images are still somewhere in the dusty corner of Google guts, they are not shareable anymore. The image link is blocked by Google. But, at least, they kept old links after downgrading.
cz23
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So far tumblr has been a free lunch for me.
I recently shut down my web site, moved everything there, and pointed my domain name to it. And if you enjoy tinkering with HTML and CSS, tumblr is infinitely flexible. I keep coming up with functionality to add and so far have been able to.
John
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Nope, totally false. I've done this and all my links remained. The links on RFF do not point to a specific host company, they point to files on chriscrawfordphoto.com. If I move the site, the domain name s moved to, and so the links will not change.
Emile de Leon
Well-known
I'm not computer savvy...but my wife who is a website designer told me today its only going to get worse with net neutrality about to hit the skids..
She says hosting companies need to generate real funds in anticipation of this..and bandwith costs $$..
She said get ready..its the end of an era..no more freebies..
She says hosting companies need to generate real funds in anticipation of this..and bandwith costs $$..
She said get ready..its the end of an era..no more freebies..
Pioneer
Veteran
Photobucket Hosting Changes
Photobucket recently changed their policies regarding linking my photographs stored on their site to 3rd Party sites like this forum without submitting to an extortionist fee of $40 per month. They have also made it clear in their policies that they do not consider the photos stored on their site to be my property but intend to do whatever they wish with them, up to and including resale without my express approval.
As a result of these onerous and unreasonable policies I will no longer be using Photobucket to digitally store my photographs on line. I have also taken the precaution of deleting all current photographs stored on their site. This means that most, if not all, picture links that I have inserted into posts on this forum are now broken and will not work.
I do sincerely apologize to the membership of this forum as this action unavoidably reduces much of the value that may have existed in my contributions here
I am presently exploring alternative options to using a hosting site like photobucket, flikr or any of the rest. Once I have developed an alternative then I will try to recreate links to some of my more recent posts.
Thank you for your patience while this process works itself out.
Photobucket recently changed their policies regarding linking my photographs stored on their site to 3rd Party sites like this forum without submitting to an extortionist fee of $40 per month. They have also made it clear in their policies that they do not consider the photos stored on their site to be my property but intend to do whatever they wish with them, up to and including resale without my express approval.
As a result of these onerous and unreasonable policies I will no longer be using Photobucket to digitally store my photographs on line. I have also taken the precaution of deleting all current photographs stored on their site. This means that most, if not all, picture links that I have inserted into posts on this forum are now broken and will not work.
I do sincerely apologize to the membership of this forum as this action unavoidably reduces much of the value that may have existed in my contributions here
I am presently exploring alternative options to using a hosting site like photobucket, flikr or any of the rest. Once I have developed an alternative then I will try to recreate links to some of my more recent posts.
Thank you for your patience while this process works itself out.
f16sunshine
Moderator
A few years ago I spent a lot of time on MFLensesforum.
The admins there had Server space for image uploads and implored members to upload directly and store images there.
The reasoning was for future continuity in forum threads.
That was 2007. Looking now 10years forward... Boy those guys sure had it right !
The admins there had Server space for image uploads and implored members to upload directly and store images there.
The reasoning was for future continuity in forum threads.
That was 2007. Looking now 10years forward... Boy those guys sure had it right !
benmacphoto
Well-known
I was thinking the same thing about photos linked here from my account.
I deleted the account the other day after finding out about the policy change.
I deleted the account the other day after finding out about the policy change.
Huss
Veteran
Just deleted my photobucket account after I deleted all my photos there. Which already had broken links.
Interestingly, after I deleted all pics and albums it still said I was using over 1 MB of storage...
Interestingly, after I deleted all pics and albums it still said I was using over 1 MB of storage...
Pioneer
Veteran
I agree. I may end up using the gallery here to hold the photos I am linking into different threads. The primary downside to this, as far as I can tell, is I would need to do this on each forum where I post.
Chris Crawford's suggestion of hosting your own photos on your website also shows promise as I do have a site of my own. The problem is that I am not really that savvy regarding website creation and maintenance so will need to do some serious research and study if I chose that avenue.
Pioneer
Veteran
I noticed the same thing after I deleted all my photos. I found this a bit concerning so I haven't literally deleted my account yet. I am not sure I trust photobuckets management not to hold onto all my photographs anyway, even after I have "deleted" them all.
I'll go back in a few days or a couple of weeks to ensure my "storage" as dropped to zero.
I had been paying their small fee to stay ad-free, I really don't have a big problem with paying for services on the web. But after I read Sepiareverbs post I went back and researched things much more heavily.
Most people probably don't pay a lot of attention so Photobucket may not experience any real negative feedback from this, but I would think that anyone who is really paying attention will be deleting their photos and accounts quite quickly.
gnuyork
Well-known
You can still host your own photos without creating a website. That's how I do it. I don't even have a website. I use an FTP client like Transmit to upload to my server, then I just paste the link in a forum's photo upload button.
It's all very easy once you get used to it.
