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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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What to do with your high quality pictures? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Flor_blad@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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What are you guys doing with your (hobby)pictures?

I do a lot of nature photography just for fun and I am not planing on selling them. Currently I’m uploading it only on instagram. You can see they are high quality if you use the correct format. Still, I’d like to show the pictures in their full quality as well. Are there any possibilities to do so?

I though about creating a website but as far as I’ve seen it, the pictures won’t have a good quality after upload. (Why?) I also thought about printing but I can’t fit more than 5+ big pictures into my home, so that’s very limited.

Also, is it even recommended to upload pictures in full quality? What if some people use it as if it’s their own? What if I want to sell some prints in the future but the pictures are already online in full quality, can’t people just download them and go to a random print store by themselves?

TL;DR: Do you show your pictures in full quality in the internet?

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[–] smeagleeye@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I recently started a photo wall essentially a bunch of 4x6 pictures just taped to the wall. So far its pretty symmetrical and looks cool plus its fun to see your own work printed out and physically vs a screen. I got one of those canon selphy printers on sale for like 100$ and it prints a decent amount better than the grocery store/drug store photo stations but still not quite as nice as getting prints from a photo store/print shop

[–] aankitkatiyar@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

https://petapixel.com/2023/10/12/photographer-makes-all-of-his-stunning-photos-available-for-free

[–] tampawn@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I use pixieset.. Their photo galleries look great, and you view them as thumbnails. You can choose the size downloads you like from low dpi's up to high resolution.

Here's a recent gallery https://picprokeithlindquist.pixieset.com/danielandcaitlynengagement/

Its easy to view and share to FB but not IG...

[–] plymouthvan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Honestly, set up a routine for yourself to print a few of your top favorites big each month. And/or, maybe print all of them small and stick them in a physical book. It might just be for you, but the physical medium really hits different and actually kind of means something different to people in the future who may one day find them in their possession.

[–] bb95vie@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Storing until I die, People making Galleries after me, reading and publishing my diaries - oh, each year a new Christmas Calendar released by some helping organisation to collect money, children singing songs about me. looking forward.