Thank you both for the information - I knew that I could count on guidance
around here.
Let me ask for some more guidance please; and I'll admit that it's a "rookie"
question regarding digital editing. With regards to Vipul's latest posting - my
analog/film mind tells me that a polarizing filter would've perhaps eliminated
the reflection in the glasses; but that would've been a before-the-shot deal.
As the image was digital, could the reflection be edited out without losing the
balance of the image data behind the reflection and not just leave either a
white or hazy area within an otherwise fine b/w portrait? I have little serious
digital editing experience as you can tell other than playing with level
sliders and cropping.
Peter Stevens
On Friday, April 20, 2018, 11:11:11 PM EDT, Sonny Carter
<sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I too use my own website. The web is built on Wordpress, and besides being a
highly versatile platform, it is easily edited even from my iPhone or iPad.
With hundreds of templates available, you can get just the look you want. You
can even host on Wordpress for free. I have an extensive site dating back to
2001. In 2009, I changed to Wordpress from FrontPage, because it wasn’t
supported by my provider any more. SonC.com is a few years older, but it was
hosted on a series of free sites before.
My host is Avahost, and I can’t really complain about it as the few times it
has gone down, they were incredibly responsive, and it was back up in minutes
when it was their issue.
I think they’ve gone through a few owners, as the support was originally
clearly American, then it was some sort of Asian for awhile, and now I notice
the emails often contain Russian language in the subtext. Over the years the
servers got faster, and better.
The services are extensive, with even the ability of setting up a market on my
site. Plenty space and stats, more services than I need and the cost is $166
for two years.
Anyhow, maybe more than you wanted to know.
SonC
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:13 PM David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Brian Reid, who runs the LUG, has had a Gallery for Leica Users running for
many years. Philippe, for one, posts his photos there.
And Brian has generously offered that Leica Reflex Users are welcome to use it,
too. It's free.
See: http://gallery.leica-users.org/main.php
Another alternative is your own website... Many firms offer stock formats that
can fit a photographer's needs, if you sign up for their service.
I use GoDaddy, who's service is excellent and their prices reasonable. The
only drawback is their servers are quite slow. :-(
If you're willing to purchase a domain ($10 to $15 for 3 years, is typical) and
pay for a site, but do not wish to use a 'stock' format, a very good, WYSIWYG
html generator is Kompozer. It's what I use, and it's free.
It's not currently in active development, but it works very well, is stable,
and works with Win 7, 8, 8.1, & 10, without hiccups. Versions are also
available for Mac & Linux.
See: http://kompozer.net/
To go with it, you'll need an FTP program for uploading your files. (Kompozer
has a in-built version, but it's not great.) I use FileZilla, which is
excellent, and free.
See: https://filezilla-project.org/
So, there you have it. A couple more, viable options, and all free!
David.
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David Young - Photographer
Logan Lake,BC, CANADA
Website: www.furnfeather.ca
Gallery: The Creative Co. Merritt, BC.
E-book: http://tinyurl.com/ABHoP
Good evening. Peter, That's a great point of conversation to open up. I------
hope that your optimism hold firm and turns out to be well founded with
SmugMug. Professional photographers that I know here in Florida have
shifted all of their clients' work to the site. It certainly makes it
easy and efficient for the buying public to purchase and obtain physical
prints in a host of sizes and finishes; but that's really not what we're
talking about with regards to a site for continued hosting and sharing
of images that don't carry a price tag. If I were in your shoes with a
formidible inventory of images in place I probably would stay put and
hope for the best. As it is for me, with only a handful of images, I've
decided to delete the images and the account with Flickr and in a sense
tread water for a while. I have not come to a comfortable spot in my
head about where to post in order to share a link here on the Flexer
site with the small number of images that I have; and I welcome the
conversation amongst the folks here who will join the discussion.
Sonny's setup with WordPress seems to be very compelling; but what other
options have you Flexers come up with?
Best regards,
Peter Stevens
On Friday, April 20, 2018, 8:13:38 PM EDT, Peter Klein
<boulanger.croissant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you use flickr, as I do, this affects you:
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-flickr-
verizon-oath/537377002/>
I don't know what this portends. It could be good news, or it could
mean that all old user agreements will be null and void and subject to
whatever terms they decide to dictate. I'm reasonably optimistic based
on SmugMug's past history and reputation. We shall see. The CEO says
they don't data-mine users content. I pay a reasonable fee to *not* be
deluged with ads. I like that model.
Thoughts?
--Peter
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