Images on SmugMug

tony cooper wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:56:58 -0600, Caesar Romano
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:50:51 -0500, tony cooper
wrote Re Images on SmugMug:

'm giving SmugMug a go on their 14 day trial:
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/galler...34835982_YSfoY

Comments on the images appreciated, critical comments will be hotly
contested, and fawning praise will be treasured. If you can't say
something nice, lie.
Great photos! Really GREAT!!!

But the prices are too low.

That's a feature of SmugMug that I don't like. It's automatically
included. Perhaps it can be removed if I can figure out the tool to
do it. I'm using SmugMug as a gallery, and have no interest in
selling images.

Actually, I lied. If you customize a gallery, there's a Printable option
you can turn on and off. Turn it off, and people won't be able to order
prints.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:33:32 -0500, Cynicor
wrote:

tony cooper wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:56:58 -0600, Caesar Romano
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:50:51 -0500, tony cooper
wrote Re Images on SmugMug:

'm giving SmugMug a go on their 14 day trial:
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/galler...34835982_YSfoY

Comments on the images appreciated, critical comments will be hotly
contested, and fawning praise will be treasured. If you can't say
something nice, lie.
Great photos! Really GREAT!!!

But the prices are too low.

That's a feature of SmugMug that I don't like. It's automatically
included. Perhaps it can be removed if I can figure out the tool to
do it. I'm using SmugMug as a gallery, and have no interest in
selling images.

Only with a pro account. You can set the price of things you don't want
to sell to $0.00 and they don't show up.

I just removed it. In the tools palette, check no for "prints" and
the shopping cart thingy doesn't appear on my page.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

tony cooper wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:11:37 -0600, Tak Colston
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:30:09 -0500, tony cooper
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:10:18 -0800, Irwell wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:50:51 -0500, tony cooper wrote:

I'm giving SmugMug a go on their 14 day trial:
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/galler...34835982_YSfoY

Comments on the images appreciated, critical comments will be hotly
contested, and fawning praise will be treasured. If you can't say
something nice, lie.
The Gallery works fine, pictures load fast and nice
adjustment features. Detail on the pics is great, composition not too
great, mostly clutter type on the few I looked at.
What was photographed *is* clutter. Victorian Antiques is a company
that retrieves parts and pieces from old houses and buildings that are
being razed and sells the items.
Nothing more enthralling than some lame snapshooter trying to explain why
someone should appreciate their snapshots of crap.

I will accept your comments as fawning praise. Since I don't expect
Helen to comment on my photos, yours will be considered as pick of the
litter.

Home movies of Aunt Margaret's vacation to New York, anyone? Anyone got a gun to
put her out of everyone's misery? Anyone?

Actually, the home movies of Aunt Margaret's vacation in New York are
quite good. Aunt Margaret retired after 42 years as a librarian and
found that her pension fund was insolvent and didn't qualify for a
government bail-out. She went to New York and obtained temporary
employment with a call girl network as a dominatrix specializing in
bullying people to pay overdue fines. She got some very spicy footage
of a number of politicians - including one Governor and two State
Representatives - groveling and screaming "Fine me more! Fine me
now!". She wore out six #2 Ticonderoga pencils with that little
rubber date stamp attached to the eraser end using them as a whip.

She made enough money on her vacation to buy a pair of thigh-high
leather boots that nicely cover her varicose veins, and to buy a
year's supply of Kibbles and Bits for her cat HarperLee. (The cat was
so-named because of its propensity to kill birds. But I don't expect
you to catch that reference.)

Know anything about photography? Ever taken a photograph?

Hah! Tony, you get the prize for humourous writing this weekl I am
afraid, however, you're casting the proverbial pearls before the literal
swine, etc., but the rest of us appreciate it!

--
john mcwilliams

Coach: "Are you just ignorant, or merely apathetic?"
Player: "Coach, I don't know, and I don't care."

John Navas wrote:
On 12 Dec 2008 20:06:43 GMT, Allodoxaphobia
wrote in :

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:30:00 -0500, Cynicor wrote:

The only thing I'd like is the ability to come up with shorter
URLs. So instead of
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/galler...34836045_QVwYs, it
might be http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/gallery/Antiques#Bedpost or
something similar.
You can always plug it into tinyurl.com.
Once you have your tinyurl, it's good f o r e v e r -- how ever long
_that_ is. :-)

I prefer notlong.com, because it allows you to customize the link.

There are also some of us who won't click a shortlink- or even a long
one- if the poster's creds are unknown or in doubt. But the tinyURLs are
more suspect than the ones that are apparent.

--
john mcwilliams

tony cooper wrote:
I'm giving SmugMug a go on their 14 day trial:
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/galler...34835982_YSfoY

Comments on the images appreciated, critical comments will be hotly
contested, and fawning praise will be treasured. If you can't say
something nice, lie.



And I thought my home was a mess!

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:31:08 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote in :

John Navas wrote:
On 12 Dec 2008 20:06:43 GMT, Allodoxaphobia
wrote in :

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:30:00 -0500, Cynicor wrote:

The only thing I'd like is the ability to come up with shorter
URLs. So instead of
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/galler...34836045_QVwYs, it
might be http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/gallery/Antiques#Bedpost or
something similar.
You can always plug it into tinyurl.com.
Once you have your tinyurl, it's good f o r e v e r -- how ever long
_that_ is. :-)

I prefer notlong.com, because it allows you to customize the link.

There are also some of us who won't click a shortlink- or even a long
one- if the poster's creds are unknown or in doubt. But the tinyURLs are
more suspect than the ones that are apparent.

Preview mode is available for folks like you.
--
Best regards,
John Navas
[PLEASE NOTE: Ads belong *only* in rec.photo.marketplace.digital, as per
http://bobatkins.photo.net/info/charter.htm http://rpdfaq.50megs.com/]

John Navas wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:41:15 -0500, tony cooper
wrote in
:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:37:33 -0800, John Navas
wrote:

For about the same price as SmugMug you could host your own website with
the Gallery2 package (and anything else you'd like to host) on GoDaddy
Gallery2 is terrific, easily configured to your taste and desires.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:About
Thanks for the suggestion, but clicking the above says: "You must
have your own website with PHP and database support in order to
install and use it."

That's the GoDaddy part.

This, as far as I'm concerned, is written in a dialect spoken only in
western Ethiopia. I've never tried to do a website, I don't know what
a PHP is, and I can't tell if I can support a database or not.

Not to worry -- GoDaddy has tools that make it dead easy to install, and
Gallery2 is dead easy to configure.

Oh, I use my Earthlink hosting space once in a while to put up
something I've done in HTML 4.0, but it's an area I've never become
involved in.

Typical ISP hosting lacks the tools on GoDaddy.

I like the SmugMug, JAlbum, PhotoBucket, etc. type
programs because I can just click and upload.

OK.

There's a more eloquent solution at hand.

$6 a month for a web site. and $10 for a domain name.

JAlbum (it's free) and the "Skin" which has a shopping cart using either
Google checkout or Paypal. I've used it and it works a treat.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:55:09 +1000, Jurgen wrote
in :

John Navas wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:41:15 -0500, tony cooper
wrote in
:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:37:33 -0800, John Navas
wrote:

For about the same price as SmugMug you could host your own website with
the Gallery2 package (and anything else you'd like to host) on GoDaddy
Gallery2 is terrific, easily configured to your taste and desires.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:About
Thanks for the suggestion, but clicking the above says: "You must
have your own website with PHP and database support in order to
install and use it."

That's the GoDaddy part.

This, as far as I'm concerned, is written in a dialect spoken only in
western Ethiopia. I've never tried to do a website, I don't know what
a PHP is, and I can't tell if I can support a database or not.

Not to worry -- GoDaddy has tools that make it dead easy to install, and
Gallery2 is dead easy to configure.

Oh, I use my Earthlink hosting space once in a while to put up
something I've done in HTML 4.0, but it's an area I've never become
involved in.

Typical ISP hosting lacks the tools on GoDaddy.

I like the SmugMug, JAlbum, PhotoBucket, etc. type
programs because I can just click and upload.

OK.

There's a more eloquent solution at hand.

$6 a month for a web site. and $10 for a domain name.

JAlbum (it's free) and the "Skin" which has a shopping cart using either
Google checkout or Paypal. I've used it and it works a treat.

What do you think makes that better than Gallery2 on GoDaddy?
--
Best regards,
John Navas
[PLEASE NOTE: Ads belong *only* in rec.photo.marketplace.digital, as per
http://bobatkins.photo.net/info/charter.htm http://rpdfaq.50megs.com/]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:55:09 +1000, Jurgen
wrote:

John Navas wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:41:15 -0500, tony cooper
wrote in
:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:37:33 -0800, John Navas
wrote:

For about the same price as SmugMug you could host your own website with
the Gallery2 package (and anything else you'd like to host) on GoDaddy
Gallery2 is terrific, easily configured to your taste and desires.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:About
Thanks for the suggestion, but clicking the above says: "You must
have your own website with PHP and database support in order to
install and use it."

That's the GoDaddy part.

This, as far as I'm concerned, is written in a dialect spoken only in
western Ethiopia. I've never tried to do a website, I don't know what
a PHP is, and I can't tell if I can support a database or not.

Not to worry -- GoDaddy has tools that make it dead easy to install, and
Gallery2 is dead easy to configure.

Oh, I use my Earthlink hosting space once in a while to put up
something I've done in HTML 4.0, but it's an area I've never become
involved in.

Typical ISP hosting lacks the tools on GoDaddy.

I like the SmugMug, JAlbum, PhotoBucket, etc. type
programs because I can just click and upload.

OK.

There's a more eloquent solution at hand.

$6 a month for a web site. and $10 for a domain name.

JAlbum (it's free) and the "Skin" which has a shopping cart using either
Google checkout or Paypal. I've used it and it works a treat.

I have a JAlbum account, but the free version is limited to 30MB.
I've filled that, and have to delete an album to add a new one. I can
upgrade to 1GB for about $25/year, but I can get unlimited on SmugMug
for $40/year. ($35 if you use a present user as a referral)

I find both JAlbum and SmugMug to be very simple to use.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

tony cooper wrote:
I'm giving SmugMug a go on their 14 day trial:
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/galler...34835982_YSfoY

Comments on the images appreciated, critical comments will be hotly
contested, and fawning praise will be treasured. If you can't say
something nice, lie.

LOL! Excellent!

As for the photos: Not bad. I don't like the flash look all that
much, especially when you see the shadows from the flash and all of
the reflections. I like the one with the crystal knobs because with
the black background it looks like they're floating. #13 could be okay
but really wants to be sharper.

--
Ray Fischer