Hi
I enjoy photography - taking mostly landscapes and scenery. However, I am very much a beginner, and would appreciate constructive feedback on my photos from other more experienced photographers (no serious critiscism - just constructive feedback!).
Is there such a web-site I could join? Any recommended?
2006-11-19 05:31:30 · 13 answers · asked by madgreenbird 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
http://www.photographers-corner.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum.php
This is a small photography website, but the work of the photographers on here is really good and they are also very helpful and willing to offer feedback on your work.
2006-11-19 15:59:20 · answer #1 · answered by Sweet Cakes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok Firends,
From our research we found that there are mainly two types of websites for photo sharing one is like youtube.com where you dump everything under the sun and share it with the world and the second one is like a pro-site where you put your best shot pictures for review by professional photographers and photo critics. For the ease of use we will call them Cat-1 and Cat-2 respectively. Here is the list of websites which we reviewed:
1. www.pbase.com
This is a Cat-2 site that is for photographers. The charges are:
US$23 yearly for 400 Megabytes of photo storage.
or
US$60 yearly for 1200 Megabytes of photo storage.
Just an FYI, If your photos average 250 kilobytes each, you could store 1600 photos in 400 megabytes. Also they provide trial accounts which are limited to 10 Megabytes of storage space.
2. Flickr.com
Its a comination of Cat-2 and Cat-1 because it has two types of account, free and paid accounts. The free account is very limited as it sets the limit to 20 MB bandwidth per month, But if you ready to pay $24.95/year buy a Pro Account whcih will give you following:
* 2 GB monthly upload limit and
* Unlimited storage
* Unlimited bandwidth
* Unlimited photosets
* Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images
3. www.fotki.com
This is a Cat-1 photo sharing website which gives unlimited photo-storage space.
YOu can do the following;
* Use unlimited photo-storage space
* Enjoy the cheapest photo printing
* Customize your account look and feel
* Find new friends by interests
* Create albums
* Store videos
* Keep blogs
* Participate in photo contests
4. www.photobucket.net
This is again a Cat-1 photo sharing website, the pictures on this site accounts to 70% of the pics shared on myspace.com.
5. www.photo.net
This is a Cat-2 website, that is for photographers. For the free account you can only upload 5 photographs, Once you subscribe (1 year $25.00 OR 3 years$68.00) you can upload unlimited photographs, but again you will have a 20 GB bandwith limit per month(which I think should be more than enough). This is a good site for serious photographers and you can really get good feedback.
Having said all that we think you should do the following to start your journey to photography:
Step - 1
Start uploading your photographs on Cat-1 sites such as Fotki.com, Flickr.com. We would recomend create $25/year account on flickr, this will hep you get a quicker visibility. Analyze all your uploaded photographs such as what kind of pics people like etc etc, do this for 4-5 months and you will get a good feel of people's taste and what photograph can be a hit.
Step - 2
Once you have completed your Step-1, move to Cat-2 sites that is the ones for the pros. Create a paid account on photo.net or pbase.net and start uploading your popular hit photographs from Step-1. I am sure your photographs will definitely catch the eyes of critics and they will provide you the feedback which you looking for.
Hope all that information helps. All the best.
eNwe
For eNwe Studio
2006-11-23 01:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by eNwe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in a similar situation to you although I do mainly portrait work of children.
iStockphoto.com is a good site where your photos are checked for quality and if they pass the approval they are put onto the site and you can get commission from them (not much but its a start!!) I've got $42 in my account!
At least you know then which ones pass the test and people can comment on them. I've just started using Flickr.com as well but haven't had any feedback yet as I've only just signed up :-)
2006-11-20 09:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by Rakibear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to soaphoto.com After you sign up you can go to the SOA Forum and to critiques. Post a photo there and people will give you feed back. it is also a contest site to. good luck
2006-11-20 07:18:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First i started with yahoo photos,flickr.com
then i got google picasa (available for us free here http://angle-mine.blogspot.com )which actually is an editing software,but has an inbuilt sytem to publish our photos on web too.I think but not sure,they are also indexed by google search if we wish.
2006-11-20 03:31:46 · answer #5 · answered by age_of_brains 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend http://www.photogalaxy.com . A good place to start is to upload a few of your photos and then head over to their Forum ( http://www.photogalaxy.com/forum ). Often you can't expect to get comments on your photos if you just plonk them on there. However, if you comment on other people's photos then you will find they will be only to happy to comment on yours.
2006-11-19 21:33:56 · answer #6 · answered by willbl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
You are welcome to join my photography group
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/PBPA/
We are a happy gang of professional and amateur photographers.
Our main aim is to produce and sell pictures, but we are all happy to help each other learn
You can post pictures in the photo album and request constructive criticism from the rest of the gang.
Paul
2006-11-19 21:23:58 · answer #7 · answered by Eric 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flickr.com it belongs to yahoo i think but is very simple to use and isn't as 'youth' as myspace
2006-11-19 05:36:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a list of forums where you can post your photos:
http://www.net-art.it/artyou/free/forum-e.html#photography
2006-11-19 13:19:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.caedes.net- they have a huge photography section and people give great constructive criticism and comments.
2006-11-20 06:35:34 · answer #10 · answered by Bridgeridoo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋