Photography

I used to live Flikr, but I havent been able to log into my account since Yahoo took over it and it seems to have died a death. I tried a few years back to get back into my Flikr account and it drove me insane.

Well this is timely.

I have a website -in beta - for presenting and sharing portfolios of photos. You can share eg 'my cats' and there is a chat card dedicated to that portfolio. You can share 'architecture' with a different circle, and there is a chat for that one too. And in future there will be a public facing element. In future this will be community-driven and you'll only get to the top if you're voted up. If you're interested in hitting my front page now I can look into doing this - just comment or DM me!

Wilo

The website: wallwisp

and after getting diminishing returns and burn out by posting on Instagram

Diminishing returns? Are you sure you are a hobby photographer... because it sounds more like you are trying to build a brand.

Moms everywhere getting their dopamine fix posting cell phone pics of their kids on facebook... and this guy over talking about diminishing returns on IG posts. What does that even mean? You set yourself a monthly "like" quota or something?

Post on FB and IG like everyone else. Literally foundational tools for building a brand/sharing a photography hobby. If you cant make it there... you cant make it anywhere.

I post on Insta, some subreddits, and on some FB groups. It's not huge, but it's something. I've also hung prints of some of my favorites in my office ar work.

X/Twitter.

Every beginning is hard, but you can join photo communities where you can share photos with other photographers and get feedback and so on. 👍🏻

Prints for galleries. Preferably they end up in someone's house and money ends up in my bank account.

Threads seems ok so far and has lot of potential but you need to put in work.

FB just local groups will give you best views just need thick skin as your finely crafted landscape photo you got up at 3am and traveled a couple hours to the location will get 1000's of views less then a blurry sunset/rainbow/snow photo from a phone.

Flickr eh mostly just use to to get my name in search engines.

My own website

Reddit group local to my area is not bad.

In order of priority: My personal website -> Threads -> Instagram -> Flickr -> Reddit.

Instagram is by far the worst for sharing actual photography, but one of the better ones for networking. Reddit is probably the most toxic community in the world due to the relative anonymity.

Threads honestly has a better photography community than any of the others right now. But I've been thinking about trying out Glass once my Flickr membership runs out. I've had a Flickr pro account for more than a decade and maybe it's time to try something else.

Flickr.com

I really just post on Instagram and which automatically posts on Facebook. For context, I usually post travel pics. I find that people interact with my pictures on FB more, especially the locals from where the pictures were taken. But I still post primarily on IG because it retains the quality of the pictures better.

For friends, prints! Always fun to hand them out

The same way I have since 2007, on flickr.

I share my recreational photography on social media.

I have a website for my professional work, but it’s mostly for client photo access. I don’t typically share my professional work anymore on social media, because I do it part-time for fun and don’t necessarily want more business.

I used to share my professional work more often when I really needed the cash, but I was getting burned out and started to not enjoy it anymore. I quit photographing weddings, and now stick with smaller gigs. I mostly photograph dance concerts, plays, musicals, and also some marketing shoots for local Universities. Now I’m just happy with my part-time passion funding itself.

Interesting to hear about this Substack thing becuase I was just about to start my own newsletter! I will have to look into this after finally officially getting off of Instagram as someone who vary rarely posted to start. Hah! But I’m excited to start writing deeper dives on my photos on my own email newsletter. Can you make Substack be private or request people pay $5 a month to see your posts?

I'm new to photography and have been searching for a thread like this. What are the best places to continuously post my work? I don't gain any traction on Instagram. Is this and app?

enjoy writing and it feels like I'm putting more intention behind my work.

This is where I struggle. I can never put into words when I post a photo on IG or reddit.I sometimes find quotes that relate to how the photo makes me feel but I find it a bit weird to put a quote.

You maybe interested in this google spreadsheet of photographers on substack, from Neil Milton.

Sharing? You mean like... exporting and putting a copy on different storage methods to not lose them and never looking at them again?

When I was taking pictures during a family visit, nothing fancy, but I was using an old point and shoot because it's more reliable than my phone. My cousin asked if I'm going to print the pictures... maybe 5% or fewer get printed but I definitely see where she's coming from. Social media posts are seen once and forgotten, but something on your wall is seen every time someone visits your house.

I sell them on the stock agencies, for me, it's a great side hustle and I love seeing my photos being used. I also use Flickr - still love Flickr after all these years & I pay for pro

FB friends. Make calendars for family and friends.

All the sites I was using have decided to lean hard into crypto scams, NFTs, and AI. When I spoke out about each I mysteriously lost access to the sites.

So currently, I only share my photography with family and friends physically and through stuff like Discord, I'm temporarily done with online photography while I see if these bubbles are going to pop and I can get back to what I enjoyed.

Exposure wise, I post mostly on IG since that's where most of my friends/clients are on. And for the images/portfolio, I use Adobe Portfolio as it's easy to separate images by events/races. Team and/or company specific images have their own gallery either on AP or Google photos.

I've tried Vero and Threads but they seem to be a little to artsy for me, I'm not to into street photography and portraits and that seems to be the majority of the content on both of those platforms.

Substack sounds cool the problem being I hate writing I just want my photos to do the talking haha 🤣 But yeah Instagram sucks, unless you really start putting yourself out there, commenting a lot, and if you're a decent photographer people will follow you if they like your content. But you won't get anyone off hashtags anymore.. you kinda have to make yourself visible on other people's comments and then you get a few followes here and there.

https://instagram.com/andrewhullphotography?utm_source=qr

Loved ones and myself. Maybe it's a lack of confidence but I've yet to had a big desire to share it elsewhere.

Vero is the best for photography

I do a few things:

1. Post 1 photo per day to Glass.photo
2. Print a set of postcards each month, and mail them or give them to folks
3. Play highlight photos on my Apple TV as a screensaver, which people enjoy when I’m having some kind of event at my place.

As for the future of sharing….people will share, grow disenchanted, take more photos and decide to share them somehow or another, and ever the wheel will turn…

500px, but that's feeling burnt out for me lately. I've tried reviving my 12 yr old Flickr, but that site's pretty dead.

I’ve started to move away from the internet more. Its pointless and there really isn’t a good platform anymore so I print at home to hang in my house or give as gifts.

I still occasionally post on social media but it’s not consistent anymore.

I’ve also been dabbling in designing photo books of my favorites. lol

I still post to IG and FB as they’re the easiest platforms for me to mindlessly manage compared to other sites. At least for now. I have been thinking about getting a Squarespace, but as a hobbyist, it’s not within the budget.

For me, it’s also hard trying to get hired too as a photographer. Like wedding, event, and real estate photography is super easy to find people willing to hire you. Same with product photography. But street and urban are hard to commercialise. Like who wants to hire someone to take photos of random people and locations?

I post to Instagram. Even if it only gets seen by a hand full of people.

A year ago I made reels which at first showed the enviroment and my camera with a Camera movement into the Viewfinder. Then I revealed the final Image. I did this consisteant, at least every second day over a few months and it got a good amount of views. On the top 54k views.

But things in my private life changed and I havn't anymore that much time and I can't do it consistant anymore. Now if I do this type of reels it only gets a few hundret views. But I'm pretty sure that if I will do that consistant again, it will blow up after a few weeks.

Instagram and I'm trying to make bigger users like Casinos, the entire downtown Las Vegas IG page, Fremont street page look good. They feature my stuff and I don't really grow but my photos on their page get like 1k likes.