Do you post your photos on Facebook or Flickr?

[ilzho]

Hi:

I'm sure this has been hashed out before, but since I do not have a website, where do you post your photos online? 

I'm not a professional, I'm a beginner and when I get some nice shots, I'll email them to the parties as an album that I created in Flickr.

Curious to know, for beginners like myself, what is a safe way to post photos without them getting stolen?

Not that anyone would steal mine, lol, but since I do not have a digital watermark program, I'll take suggestions.

Thanks,

David

[TTMartin]

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@diverhank wrote:

I don't make a living with my photography.  I post mine online on Flickr where you can limit the size of your displayed photos and you can disable downloading for non-friend and non-family members.  This will not prevent theft but minimize it somewhat.

I generally do not worry about my work getting stolen.  Once in a while, they'd be referenced on some travel brochures or wildlife articles without my permission even though they credited me as the author (usually outside of the US -South America, Asia and Russia, in my case) .

In general, people are very honest.  They would generally ask my permission for use or offer to buy my pictures.

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Flickr allows you to choose if you want them to market your photos and will give you a cut of the profit if you do.

I do know of one personal case of someone selling prints on ebay of a friend's NASCAR photos he posted on Flickr without his permission. Someone recognized his photo and advised him of it.

[diverhank]

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TTMartin wrote:

Flickr allows you to choose if you want them to market your photos and will give you a cut of the profit if you do.

I do know of one personal case of someone selling prints on ebay of a friend's NASCAR photos he posted on Flickr without his permission. Someone recognized his photo and advised him of it.

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Flickr used to market your photos via Getty's Images but they don't anymore.

I don't doubt that works have been stolen off Flickr...if you limit the images to small enough size, making prints out of them will be pretty hard, though.