I just checked out your galleries NW, good looking images. No reason you couldn't sell them. Here is mine www.youatplay.com. I hate it when someone checks out my work and I can't see theirs.
Frank
Frank
SmugMug is following Netflix's business lesson, Now where should I host my images?
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Every Miles A Memory
Expedition Leader
Good to hear NW
Nice work Frank!
Nice work Frank!
nwoods
Expedition Leader
Man, I just spent a bunch of time on your site. Loved the Mud Run photos. I'm guessing you are shooting a lot of stuff with a 600mm?
nwoods
Expedition Leader
Man, I just spent a bunch of time on your site. Loved the Mud Run photos. I'm guessing you are shooting a lot of stuff with a 600mm?
I really liked this one:
http://www.youatplay.com/SanDiegoMu...75053_X5nPTh#!i=1222778342&k=2LQf4CQ&lb=1&s=A
Thanks, the mud run was fun, but now my son and I shoot The Spartan Race in Ca. Az.,and NV. It's a 8-10k race with 20+ obstacles, last one is the gladiator pit. We are action junkies. I'm getting the 4runner ready for our Baja in June, fishing and remote missions. Im hoping to get hooked up with a race team this year and shoot the Baja 1000.
I don't own that beautiful piece of glass that is the 600mm. What you might be seeing is the 300 2.8 with a 1.4 teleconverter on a crop sensor (1.6). The workhorse lens for us is the 70-200 2.8.
I really like this site, you guys actually build your rigs to go on Adventures.
I don't own that beautiful piece of glass that is the 600mm. What you might be seeing is the 300 2.8 with a 1.4 teleconverter on a crop sensor (1.6). The workhorse lens for us is the 70-200 2.8.
I really like this site, you guys actually build your rigs to go on Adventures.
nwoods
Expedition Leader
300 prime is still a nice lens. I tried shooting an indoor USA mens volleyball match with a 70-200L and a 1.4 converter, and it was really hard. I have much respect for the sharpness you have extracted from yours, plus the great timing!
This was the best I could do with a similar setup:
This was the best I could do with a similar setup:
TJDIV
Adventurer
I've been debating what to do with Smugmug for 3 years. The only photos I've ever sold have been locally and I use a local printer for everything.
Just decided to downgrade it to Basic today, considering I only use it for glorified storage.
I agree 110% with Pat though and have managed the development of more photography websites than I can count. If this is your business... $300 or more is a breeze.
They're just pissing off a bunch of 'middle-grounders' like me (really though, I'm not pissed off- sort of knew this was coming last year) and forcing a transition.
Could actually be a good move for them if they can keep enhancing the functionality.
nwoods
Expedition Leader
interestingly, I emailed them to make the change to Portfolio, and they emailed me back asking me to confirm, they included a few brief lines of marketingspiel about benefits of the Pro account, etc, etc. I responded that the Portfolio more than met my needs, and in fact, it was far more than I actually needed and that all I really wanted was a basic account plus watermarks and the ability to sell a print every now and then.
They responded! I am now in a dialogue with them, explaining what I feel is overkill, or miss aligned to the level of user I feel myself to be. Who knows, maybe they are listening.
They responded! I am now in a dialogue with them, explaining what I feel is overkill, or miss aligned to the level of user I feel myself to be. Who knows, maybe they are listening.
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john101477
Photographer in the Wild
What was the final outcome?
I quit them because of the price hike and figured out a way to use Blogger as a website, although I can not sell from there and I am having an issue figuring out how to align all of my images without having a funky page design.
I quit them because of the price hike and figured out a way to use Blogger as a website, although I can not sell from there and I am having an issue figuring out how to align all of my images without having a funky page design.
nwoods
Expedition Leader
Blogger eh? I haven't used that in years. Odds are, your template is using an older CSS based template and your more modern browser is rendering it wrong. I used to do a lot of web design stuff, but haven't touched it in years. It was always frustrating getting things on one browser to look the same as another. Thank goodness for standards compliant design these days!
With Smug, they listened, asked questions, but didn't promise anything. Ultimately I renewed using the Porfolio rate, which is the same as the old Pro rate, and offers nearly all the same old features. Still has stuff I don't really need, like unlimited uploads, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited video, etc... but it has the stuff I do like, such as auto-watermarking, backprinted prints, sales tools, etc... Plus, the ability to quickly and easy post and share enormous photos!:
With Smug, they listened, asked questions, but didn't promise anything. Ultimately I renewed using the Porfolio rate, which is the same as the old Pro rate, and offers nearly all the same old features. Still has stuff I don't really need, like unlimited uploads, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited video, etc... but it has the stuff I do like, such as auto-watermarking, backprinted prints, sales tools, etc... Plus, the ability to quickly and easy post and share enormous photos!: