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Posted: Mar 03, 2008 in Culture
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I've been looking for a way to display and sell my photography without building a website for myself. I intend to build a personal website to showcase everything that I do maybe this fall or next year, but not at the moment.
Does anyone have any recommendations of sites for me to look into?
I ran across smugmug.com this weekend, but that's the only website I've found of its kind. I want something more sophisticated than flickr.
Help? Thanks. :)
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I've heard good things about http://www.dotphoto.com/
You'll find some flickr alternatives below. Also, please continue to update your indy.com photo gallery. We'd love to see more of your photography.
Oh, and you're welcome to submit your art to Point of View for a (likely) chance to be featured in print. You'll find the Point of View tab on the Arts & Culture page under 'Things to do.' Or you can just go to this page and submit your art.
Here are some flickr alternatives that I know about:
www.photo.net
www.pbase.com
www.deviantart.com
www.zooomr.com
You can sell your photos through these sites:
www.sxc.hu
www.shutterpoint.com
us.fotolia.com
www.istockphoto.com
www.photobox.co.uk
You also might want to check out this article:
An Introduction to Making Money Selling Digital Photos
Went and took a look, it's free which is better than smugmug. :) Look's like my best option so far. Thanks!
Wow Ben your a lifesaver!
I'll look at putting something together for Point of View, it's so hard deciding which angle of my work to submit!
I'm looking forward to going through the sites this evening, and will provide some more feedback when I do. I bought the Photographers Market books, but have been too busy with my daily job, and C++ class to dive in.
Thanks so much!
Not a prob. C++ class, eh? I took that in high school but don't remember a frickin' thing.
Ya, I wish I could banish it from my head. It was the best "math" course I could find to fulfill Butlers div. 5 requirement. Because, I am not mathematically gifted by any means.. but on some level I do find gratification in programming, just much less than other things. :)
I didn't think they taught C++ anymore...I had it in high school and college over a decade ago. I thought everything was Visual these days or web-based like PHP. C++ is a good foundation though, as once you understand it, Javascript, PHP, HTML, CSS, and any other web programming language will be a piece of cake for you. The first language I learned to program in was BASIC. Thankfully, I'm just young enough to have missed Fortran.
when your portfolio gets big enough, and you have a little bit of cash for a dedicated website, i suggest http://otherpeoplespixels.com.... minimal design, easy to navigate, pretty much what any art website should be.
mbnjmntrb, thanks so much for that website info! looks like minimal effort, with good quality results for low cost. I will definitely keep that in mind to use in the next few months.
Ben Neff, I'm loving photo.net. I'm a part of several other forums, but this one seems to have a lot more info that I can actually use.
Rictor, yes they still teach and use C++. I personally won't be using it again, just need to fulfill Butler's math requirements.