OT: photo hosting? Phanfare

jw · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 6318 Location: Nevada

Mobileme, photo gallery is going away with icloud... (yeah i know Apple Rolling Eyes

) apparently hosting isn't going to be their 'bag' anymore. Thanks alot Apple! I did like their gallery but i didn't love it so...

Anyone try Phanfare? It's $29 a year for their basic package.

I have played with Flickr, Shutterfly and other sites. I am on +google but haven't really played with it much yet.

Is Phanfare worth it? Or are one of the 'free' hosting sites just as good for basic photo hosting?
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Danno · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:04 pm Post subject:

I use smugmug, I think it costs $40/yr but I really like it. Lots of customizing ability, great support. If it interests you, I can give you a referral that will save you I think $5 for the first year.
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jw · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 6318 Location: Nevada

Brent · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2392 Location: Denver

I've been wanting to find a good photo-hosting site as well. I checked out smugmug and it looks pretty good, and the price is reasonable.

I want to be able to send selected people links to a particular gallery, without them being able to access other galleries. It appears that is probably doable on smugmug (text paste below), but are you able to confirm that, Danno? Thanks.

Danno · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:26 pm Post subject:

Brent, I have played around with "private galleries" a little and it seems to work. I made one gallery private and I can still view it when logged out if I have the link. But I think you also need to make the entire site private, because otherwise they can go back up the chain and see your non-private galleries. But if everything is private, they will only be able to see stuff for the links you give them.

As for printing, I have printed a bunch, mostly 4x6s, and it is super easy, affordable (just like 20 cents a print and $3 shipping), and the prints seem good quality, and it's very easy to do (can even do some cropping and stuff). You can also allow people to download full size files, or you can disable that.
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nils · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 7309 Location: tahoe

http://razzi.me/ is getting mentioned more frequently...the guy behind it used to get many flickr hits, and eventually realized that in the social media era it makes more sense for the hosting site to pay you for providing content, rather than you paying them for server space.

i haven't transferred over to it yet. i don't think it provides for printing.
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robrox · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:13 pm Post subject:

Backcountry Agenda is free and Websense thinks it is not a photo host; typically all photos display for cube-farm users. http://www.whps-technology.org/backcountry/smf/index.php
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Brent · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2392 Location: Denver

elmoreman · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 525 Location: Elmore, VT

Smugmug here too. Been with it 4 yrs or so and it's been great.

nils · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 7309 Location: tahoe

Whitehonky · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:28 am Post subject:

Been pretty happy with Flickr at $25 or so per year. Pretty good privacy controls if desired. Easy to pull the image link for posting on sites like this. Retains pretty high quality to share with friends for downloading and printing. You can control who sees what.
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High Flyer · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 48

Another happy flickr user here. Cheap and reliable.

robrox · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:21 pm Post subject:

Sawyer · Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 916 Location: 802

Another vote here for Razzi. I like a few tiny bits of Google's Picasa, I like almost none of Flickr's user interface. If you decide to move your stuff from Flickr to Razzi, there's a feature for that. Even the free accounts allow unlimited uploads and revenue sharing.

As Nils pointed out, there are full privacy controls.

If you're looking to get exposure to other photogs, potential clients or people, look elsewhere, there aren't a ton of people using Razzi.

On a different note, I recently started using Panoramio. There is a bit of old world internet about it, just like there is for every google-based iPhone app. If it were a person, it would be a old, grunting and incontinent oaf good at doing one thing on a good day.
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Doug G · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 2270 Location: Oregon

Ack, way too geeky for me...complications

I have a shutterfly account, nice and FREE! However, I don't seem to be able to link pictures onto this web site from there (?) Am I doing something wrong?

If not, anyone know of a FREE hosting site? I was using fileave.com for a while, but it goes dead pretty quick when you don't use it. I don't care about privacy, etc. as long as it's free.