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Photo Sharing

Are You a Photographer Going to SXSW?

In about a month, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival will take over Austin, Texas with events focused on Film, Music, and Interactive topics. I’ll be headed down there for the Interactive portion of the event, and it would be great to get together with other photographers who are in town. I know [...]

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A Social Photo Workflow: Posting Photos from the 30 Hour Day

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Last weekend I had the honor of being the primary photographer for 30 Hour Day, a first-of-its-kind charity telethon held entirely online as opposed to traditional broadcast media. I was in the studio taking photos as well as processing and uploading selected photos to Flickr. Clients love quick turnaround, and by putting the [...]

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Share Easier: the Eye-Fi Card

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine.
Our poll last week indicated that 95% of the readers of Social Photo Talk use photo sharing sites such as Flickr or even Facebook. It’s a bunch of fun to share photos with friends, family, and clients, but [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #5: Copyright and Property Releases, Stock Photography and Journalism, Photo Sharing Poll Results

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Episode 5 of the Social Photo Podcast is here. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about copyright and property releases for publicly-viewable art and architecture, comparing the stock photography and journalism industries, and the results of a poll on workflow. [...]

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[Poll] How Do You Upload to Photo Sharing Sites?

As part of some upcoming discussion on social photo workflow for the podcast, we’d love to know how you usually upload photos to photo sharing sites:

What is your primary method for uploading photos to photo sharing sites (Flickr, SmugMug, etc)?(online surveys)

Thanks!

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Social Photo Podcast #3: @dailyshoot Update, Flickr to Twitter, and Short Flickr URLs

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Today we release the third episode of the Social Photo Podcast. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about a @dailyshoot update, Flickr’s short URL service, integration between Flickr and Twitter. This episode is just under 9 minutes.

Links to Things We Talk About

The @dailyshoot project – the @dailyshoot Twitter account, Flickr Pool, [...]

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Social Photo Podcast #2: @dailyshoot and Sharing Work Online

Here’s the second episode of the Social Photo Podcast. Hosts Aaron Hockley and Lyza Danger Gardner talk about the @dailyshoot project as well as a variety of issues surrounding sharing work online. This episode is just over 10 minutes.

Links to Things We Talk About

@dailyshoot (on Twitter)
@dailyshoot (backstory)
Google’s stance on watermarked images

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Is Anyone Using Flickr’s People-Tagging Feature?

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It’s been nearly a month since Flickr announced support for tagging people in photos. Are you using it?
Personally I’ve tagged a few people as I’ve uploaded small groups of photos, but when I process a large quantity of pictures for an event or other client job I haven’t been taking the time to tag [...]

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Tag! You’re It on Flickr

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One of Facebook’s popular social features has been the ability to “tag” people in photos. Users can indicate who is in a photo, and that indication becomes a link to that person’s Facebook page. Yesterday Flickr added a similar feature, calling it “People in Photos” (Yahoo must’ve cut the funding for any sort [...]

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Kick Your Photography Business to the Next Level with Animoto

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Today we feature a guest post by Dale Chumbley, a photographer who writes a Clark County Real Estate guide.
Today I hope to add another tool to your toolbox that will kick your business up a notch. A tool that will take your images and creativity and make them POP even more. Something that [...]

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