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Photography Projects Help [9]

Is Flickr the best free spot to start posting all of my images?

I have so many photos. I need help with what I should be doing with my images before I upload them all and recommendations on where I should display them on the web.

THE MAN IN SLAM PHOTOGRAPHY
A lot of newbie poets don’t know about David Huang. Along with Vadim Litvak, he was one of the co-founders of the San José Poetry Slam. David was constantly putting his camera in our faces while we were getting our poetry legs. He and Vadim David, with the help of Ekabhumi (poet formerly known as Charles Ellik) put together the first San José Slam Team for National Poetry Slam competition. This is where David really got to get his camera out to shoot poets. Anyone having attended NPS between 1999 and 2005 probably had their image taken by him and posted on his now defunct PoeticDream.com. He must’ve taken 100,000 photos, if not more. I’m sure so many of them never ended up being seen by the poetry community.

David got an image of me the first time I competed in a poetry slam in San José. I cannot find it now, but it shows a larger version of me, with way too much hair from the neck up — a neck you wouldn’t know I had. He took dozens more over the years, then found different interests and continued down non-poetry paths. Then he disappeared. I haven’t seen or heard from David in years. I’ve heard some stories though.

So many poets used his images as avatars, userpics, headshots and whatnot, often without permission. I asked him if he ever charged them for use and he said no, but he wished poets would offer some reimbursement since he had to pay out of pocket to host them online. He said Corbet Dean paid professional prices for use of his images as a thank you for use of them, not realizing he was the only one to pay. I don’t know if anyone else ever offered David some cash, but I would imagine it was never enough and it probably helped in deterring him from future poet photography projects.

MY PHOTOGRAPHY
I love, love, love taking photos with my Nikon. I cannot say it enough. I have probably 10,000 images backed up on two hard drives. I want to put them all online for people to see and use, but I have to admit, the idea of people using them without at least asking or crediting my work. I really have no interest in making money from it as it is just a big hobby, but I suppose eventual reimbursement from those using them to for promotion would make sense.

I need recommendations for how to do all of this online. Is there a way to display the images and charge for larger downloadable versions of them? How might I add a watermark to them? Has anyone made a photo page on WordPress?

Any and all recommendations would be welcome.
———
Word to the nerd.
Bunny up.

This entry was written by Mike McGee, posted on 10 February, 2010 at 4:18 PM, filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Photography Projects Help [9]

Is Flickr the best free spot to start posting all of my images?

I have so many photos. I need help with what I should be doing with my images before I upload them all and recommendations on where I should display them on the web.

THE MAN IN SLAM PHOTOGRAPHY
A lot of newbie poets don’t know about David Huang. Along with Vadim Litvak, he was one of the co-founders of the San José Poetry Slam. David was constantly putting his camera in our faces while we were getting our poetry legs. He and Vadim David, with the help of Ekabhumi (poet formerly known as Charles Ellik) put together the first San José Slam Team for National Poetry Slam competition. This is where David really got to get his camera out to shoot poets. Anyone having attended NPS between 1999 and 2005 probably had their image taken by him and posted on his now defunct PoeticDream.com. He must’ve taken 100,000 photos, if not more. I’m sure so many of them never ended up being seen by the poetry community.

David got an image of me the first time I competed in a poetry slam in San José. I cannot find it now, but it shows a larger version of me, with way too much hair from the neck up — a neck you wouldn’t know I had. He took dozens more over the years, then found different interests and continued down non-poetry paths. Then he disappeared. I haven’t seen or heard from David in years. I’ve heard some stories though.

So many poets used his images as avatars, userpics, headshots and whatnot, often without permission. I asked him if he ever charged them for use and he said no, but he wished poets would offer some reimbursement since he had to pay out of pocket to host them online. He said Corbet Dean paid professional prices for use of his images as a thank you for use of them, not realizing he was the only one to pay. I don’t know if anyone else ever offered David some cash, but I would imagine it was never enough and it probably helped in deterring him from future poet photography projects.

MY PHOTOGRAPHY
I love, love, love taking photos with my Nikon. I cannot say it enough. I have probably 10,000 images backed up on two hard drives. I want to put them all online for people to see and use, but I have to admit, the idea of people using them without at least asking or crediting my work. I really have no interest in making money from it as it is just a big hobby, but I suppose eventual reimbursement from those using them to for promotion would make sense.

I need recommendations for how to do all of this online. Is there a way to display the images and charge for larger downloadable versions of them? How might I add a watermark to them? Has anyone made a photo page on WordPress?

Any and all recommendations would be welcome.
———
Word to the nerd.
Bunny up.

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