What do you do with your pictures?
By Torunn
@Torunn (8606)
Norway
January 10, 2010 4:32am CST
Do you just look at them and then leave them on your computer? Or do you print some and hang them on your walls? Share them in social networks life facebook? Or mylot? Maybe use them for Christmas and birthday cards? Or is anyone into microstock or "normal stock" photography?
Some of my photos I share on facebook, here or other social networks. Most of the ones I take at show riding competitions I put on my web-page so I can watermark them automatically. I am trying to build up a microstock portpholio but I think I should try to get accepted by more than one agency to see if I sell more. And possibly take more photos and check what sells most.
I normally use my own photos for Christmas cards etc, I think it is nice to pick a personal one if possible.
6 responses
@wickedlove (326)
• United States
11 Jan 10
I sell to a few online stock agencies. Only my nature shots though. It brings me in some money. For people, it is usually shooting my family for cash, or my daughter for fun. I may not be rich, and have fancy equipment, but I think I do an okay job.
@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
11 Jan 10
Yes, good photography is often not expensive equipment but is in the eye of the photographer. The father of a former friend of mine had really expensive equipment, but he coulnd't even take sharp pictures with it. Everything was out of focus and in the wrong place.
@minx267 (15526)
• Hartford, Connecticut
10 Jan 10
After I take them I upload them to my computer.. from there I go through the ones I like and I add some to My Facebook or Myspace pages etc..
Then the ones I think are really marketable or could be after some Cropping I will upload to Zazzle and make things with them and post them for sale..
It's a great way to earn extra cash from your hobby!
@minx267 (15526)
• Hartford, Connecticut
10 Jan 10
well you don't actually sell your photos to zazzle - you use them to create items that people will want to buy.. Like shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards and sooo much more.. and then you get commission when your items sell.
For a little example of some I have a widget on my profile page of some of the items you can create..
@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
14 Jan 10
I share most of my photos on deviantART.com. I have a lot of friends and followers on that site, and I get a lot of feedback on my art! I also like to share my photos on Picable because my photos earn money when people look at them! And then I sell prints of my photos and make money that way. I sell stock photos occasionally, but I've been moving more away from that and making more money by selling prints of my photos instead.
@sublime03 (2338)
• Philippines
10 Jan 10
I have kept a lot of the pictures I have taken and have some printed them out but most of them I have posted them either on Facebook or Multiply. For this 2010, I would like to keep them all in Multiply and a little bit personal because that is my wish for this 2010. I want to keep taking pictures and soon be able to print them out and keep it especially the pictures I took of my son.
@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
10 Jan 10
I relabel and organize all my photos ASAP and burn them to DVD -- the new shoebox. Not only to back them up, but it is a more manageable way for me to access them for future use.
I dabble in microstock. I have sold a few, but not enough to quit my day job... yet.
I don't social network, but I do share photos in select forums I belong to or use them on my own websites. Some I copy to friends' memory cards for viewing on digital picture frames.
I have also kept a photo journal for years on DVD, sort of like a personal journal. I have a cheapie camera that I use to snap photos during my daily activities or travels. I don't publish it on the web, it's a private thing, but it is interesting to go back over the years and look at the photos I took and the stories they tell. Part of my legacy one day.
@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
10 Jan 10
Oh yes, I have the DVD shoeboxes too. I have to come up with some way to organize them because I tend to forget what I have burnt and then I either end up with something that I don't have a copy of or double copies of everything. DVDs aren't that expensieve, but storing two copies on the same medium isn't really necessary I suppose.
@Avinigav (238)
• Indonesia
22 Jan 10
I'll look which one is the best. And then give some fix or editing to the pictures. Only the best that I printed. I share them at social network if those picts suitable to the social network or there are my friends on the pictures and they agreed if I upload the picture. About watermark, yes some of them. No experience make them to be a card. :)
