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Alternatives to Flickr or Zenfolio...

jtk

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I'm not looking to sell anything from online portfolio, but I do want to share my images when somebody follows up on my simple "social" card after we meet in person . Since leaving my photo profession my card has been limited to phone # and email address. It's intended to extend friendship with-or-without photography.

I'd replace existing email address with address for some Flickr alternative. This alternative would be a convenient gallery and would provide very limited info beyond a new email address. It would not try to sell prints, but I wouldn't show anything that I have not printed to my satisfaction (I consider my photography to boil down to work I have personally printed).

I don't want to post in a site like Flickr, which encourages browsing the photos of others. A website or blog-format might be the best answer, but I'm looking for alternatives.

Your thoughts/ ideas? .
 
jtk said:
I don't want to post in a site like Flickr, which encourages browsing the photos of others. A website or blog-format might be the best answer, but I'm looking for alternatives.
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You know the answer already.

Otherwise, it's Instagram as most (all?!) people are on it.
Ideally, Instagram account as a window to your website (link to your website in your bio)
 
For free I like Instagram but I understand why you (or whoever you are giving your info to) might not like that. For something like ten bucks a month you could have a website with your name from Squarespace or similar, which are very easy to build and attractive, and one needs only a web browser to see your work.
 
If you dont follow anyone, like anyone or use hash tags, you can be relatively secular to the rest on flickr and instagram group.
Something like photobucket maybe an option.
As others keep suggesting a web sight is probably the best solution. You maybe able to get a student to help design and set up for not much money. I would be more than happy to forwards the many phone and emails I get from people wanting to redesign my work web site, maybe they will leave me alone then.
 
I've used several do-it-yourself canned website systems relatively happily, but they're graphically too complex for what I'm after (and they want to be cute). I'm envisioning something that would present one photo at a time with back-forward clickers and my most basic contact info...maybe (maybe) an "about me".. Flicker seems too jumbled and for mass numbers of photos. I've paid heavily for sophisticated (non-photo) and financially successful marketing websites and am convinced that if website geeks were accomplished graphic designers they wouldn't be website geeks (as with architects who design signage in airports).

What I would really like would be the digital equivalent of my Itoya ArtProfolios. One photo per page, click on it to fill the screen or change from black to cream background.
 
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Zenfolio can do what you describe. Why not them?
 

https://www.squarespace.com/templates

You can preview anything you see. "Wells" and "Wexley" look good and are visually simple.
 
Instagram is my alternative to Flickr, it is free and so far it really does its job.
 
bernard_L said:
Ipernity. Free with limits, or pay for unlimited. Visually clean.
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+1 for Ipernity ( though I'm on flickr too ... )
No 'hick-ups'; no 'bad pandas' ; a pleasing design (I like the selectable background colors). Not much traffic compared to flickr but some very nice people and several groups for film based photography.
 
jtk said:
Thanks for the suggestions...I'll play with several
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I realize it's 18 months later but I can tell you I finally settled on SmugMug after using Zenfolio for several years and before that, building my own site with MS FrontPage. I never could get Zenfolio to deliver consistency between what I created on my desktop and what was showing on the mobile version, which is where the very few people who see my website will access it. I'm not looking to sell my work; it's mainly just a calling card, a place I can point people to when they approach me with suspicion while I photograph some junkpile that to them is anything but photogenic.
 
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