Displaying Your Photos Online

Professional photographers use online galleries to sell their artwork. The galleries are carefully designed to accentuate photographs and gain feedback from other professionals. Many galleries also list exactly how the photos were created.

Pbase.com is a site that hosts professional photography galleries. The images in these galleries are of high quality, and many of them can be purchased from the photographer. One particular gallery, Colorblind Gardener, displays pictures of flowers in an unconventional way. All the photos are in black and white. But because color does not get in the way, we are able to see the elegant curves of petals and the depth created by the contrasting black, white and gray tones in the photos. It is artistically compelling. The site even has a black background so that the photos seem to blend in with their surroundings.

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To see a larger version of a photograph, you can click on the thumbnail. Beneath the image, you see the type of camera used for the shot, the shutter speed, aperture, and date the picture was taken. Various comments from viewers are displayed at the bottom of the page.

Candids

But if you're not quite ready for the artistic approach, you just like pictures that are a bit more realistic, or you don’t think anyone would want to actually buy your photos just yet, check out www.flickr.com. This site allows ordinary people to create simple online galleries for their photos. Pictures here are not usually of the highest quality, but they are just as meaningful and perhaps more memorable to their owners than professional artistic shots are. The site allows you to upload photos, title them, and also give a brief description. Because many photographs people upload to their page are of themselves, family and friends, flickr.com allows you to set privacy settings to ensure that your pictures can be kept private if you choose so. And of course, like any good photo gallery, flickr.com allows viewers to leave comments about your photographs. The site also displays thumbnails so pages don’t take forever to load.

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Many people use photo galleries like flickr.com to share pictures with family and friends. Whether you're proud of your shots, or you just want to be on the web, feel free to display all your candids in a relaxed gallery atmosphere.