What’s your favorite social media site for photo sharing?

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Social media is, for the most part...anti social and phony! As for where I might post, once in a great while here and those pic posts are typically from my "fake camera", i.e., my cell phone. As someone noted earlier, I too am challenged resizing an image especially from my D850 to fit the parameters on this forum. All those pixels gone! :( Anyway, I share my pics with a select few close acquaintances and if on a Nikon holiday, I copy all my shots to a flash drive and hand over "pics on a stick" to my trip copilot/navigator. Most of the time family almost never ask to see my trip pics; what can I say??? I do have a coworker who has about a dozen of my pics hanging all around her place, only a couple of those pics were ever paid for and for her and her hubby, my cost is their price. Another coworker typically overpaid for the pics I got for her. Then there was another coworker who expected everything for free; I got burned on a Christmas order for her; I have no shared any of my pics with her since.
 
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Abinoone said:
To be honest, I've soured on almost all social media sites for photo sharing, except occasionally on my own Facebook page. I've found that most of the FB groups, and Instagram, are little more than dumping grounds for mostly poor images by people desperate for "likes" to boost their egos. I learn little to nothing from them, and only rarely see a good image (not that I look much anymore). Sorry to seem so negative but that's been my experience - just call me an old photo curmudgeon! 🤓
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Hey don't feel bad........... you are right......social media is beyond words..........

Oz down under
 
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My favorite is (was) Instagram, but they're drastically changing now (moving more into the Tick-Tock genre / video-focused shorts). Facebook gets me the most visibility, but man the groups there are so click-y. And, it's a toxic dump of emotional outrage & ego, generally speaking o_O:LOL:

So, I've had my eye on Behance. I'm not quite sure how it works yet - but it's definitely geared more toward professional creatives and enthusiasts.
 
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ccirelli said:
My favorite is (was) Instagram, but they're drastically changing now (moving more into the Tick-Tock genre / video-focused shorts). Facebook gets me the most visibility, but man the groups there are so click-y. And, it's a toxic dump of emotional outrage & ego, generally speaking o_O:LOL:

So, I've had my eye on Behance. I'm not quite sure how it works yet - but it's definitely geared more toward professional creatives and enthusiasts.
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Behance is what I like the best. It’s really easy to see up if you have a creative cloud account.
 
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I find 500 PX is good and its full or quality photos from skillful photographers. Very inspirational.

Behance looks nice but i haven't used it.

A quality personal web site is by far the best and have it linked into all those social media platforms including LinkedIn, it depends on what you want, need , or like.

If you want to share regularly with family and close friends without all the BS of face book a personal web site is great or 500 PX........

Only an opinion OZ down under
 
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ccirelli said:
My favorite is (was) Instagram, but they're drastically changing now (moving more into the Tick-Tock genre / video-focused shorts). Facebook gets me the most visibility, but man the groups there are so click-y. And, it's a toxic dump of emotional outrage & ego, generally speaking o_O:LOL:

So, I've had my eye on Behance. I'm not quite sure how it works yet - but it's definitely geared more toward professional creatives and enthusiasts.
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Its the adaptable that survive in this crazy world of "trending now", "being on point", "Your no body if you don't have tones of likes culture"

Instagram moving into Tick Tock was inevitable, its the growth revenue area driven by vertical integration with 5G 6G soon to be 8G which all cements the future in video, through connectivity, short video clips out view still images by 90-1.
Chips for new emerging devices are in cases are obsolete before they are even sold in the end product, things are changing that fast.

Another adaptable survivor is Panasonic, they recently announced that their cameras with detachable lenses, Z6 Z7 like system will only take Video, no nmore stills, next to that they showed a 30mb still photo taken from video.

The global formulae currently and going forward is Social media, smartphones, connectivity, artificial intelligence.

Meanwhile my neighbors drop off regularly on my door step, lemons, mandarins, oranges, bananas, which we regift as we cant consume it all, in return we drop of organic ginger, lettuce, tomatoes, snow peas, beans radishes, celery, oregano, if we don't do this regularly we all will see it go to seed or in the bin.

Yet more of the current younger generation of today order in daily fast food with UBER Eats........and home delivery for non edible groceries.
Gee we live in a modern futuristic world with lots to look forward to, i wonder how adaptable we will be in the future.

Long live the internet and social media .....LOL

Only an opinion

Oz down under
 
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Paid account at Flickr works fine for me. Behance looks very similar though.
 
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So to me there's basically 2 categories here. Professionals that want to promote their work (to maintain / increase their income), and enthusiasts that just want a nice home to showcase their photos for family & friends. And there's overlap for many there too.

Basic sharing / posting is easy, and we have so many options. But Facebook and Instagram - where most people gather - are really making it increasingly difficult with their ever-changing algorithms. To get any traction on these larger platforms, you really study their game carefully and know how to play it - every single day. Major time investment there. Especially for still photographers. There was a video released recently from an IG rep (a top guy there, I forget his title) where he literally stated "Instagram is no longer a photo sharing platform". IG is now of course owned by Facebook (the beginning of the end for IG... which is still my favorite platform despite all of this).

I guess the main point of my reply is focusing on the question: How do professionals and even non-pros share their work to a larger public audience? The largest platforms are essentially getting smaller for photographers now. And I'm really not referring to online portfolios (that's a given, and that's easy to do). More so - how do we share those portfolios to as many people as possible (and not just for the purpose of dopamine hits from Likes / Comments).
 
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DRwyoming said:
I ran a stock and editorial business for over a decade so I've sold a lot of images but other than some online stock agencies I never really relied on online sales. My images either sold locally as prints or largely through editorial channels where I'd sell stock or more often than not photo-story packages to magazines. I did have some unusual sales like when the USPS bought rights to one of my images for a postage stamp. They didn't print my actual image as the stamp, someone had used one of the images I published in a magazine as original art for a watercolor that then became a stamp and the USPS licensed my image as it represented the original copyright work.
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thats how I did most of my sales right out of college. Backpacking eastern and central Africa wasn’t that common back then so I sold quite a few shots and photo-story packages. Now it’s mostly the occasional custom job for editors I know and mostly as a favor to them than any real need on my end.
 
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Patrick M said:
I gave up sharing because there are just so many trolls out there.
I also delete all my posts here every month.
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Hey on a related note, I thought this would be an interesting share here in the context of this topic. I can't say I agree with all points, but I do love the main message (at least my interpretation of it) and I LOVE the images he shared from this (formerly) unknown photographer. It's worth a watch.

 
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Hey on a related note, I thought this would be an interesting share here in the context of this topic. I can't say I agree with all points, but I do love the main message (at least my interpretation of it) and I LOVE the images he shared from this (formerly) unknown photographer. It's worth a watch.

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I enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing. That was the first time I ever heard of Vivian Maier but those photos are awesome. (y)

I like what he says about dedication. I know exactly what he means at least for me. Although I am only a hobbyist I enjoy the time spent.
 
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ccirelli said:
Hey on a related note, I thought this would be an interesting share here in the context of this topic. I can't say I agree with all points, but I do love the main message (at least my interpretation of it) and I LOVE the images he shared from this (formerly) unknown photographer. It's worth a watch.

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Very good video. Thanks
 
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Wonderful video above.
Most social media sites are one ways streets & public pages are just not worth the effort.
Saying that I still enjoy viewing other's images.
Places like Instagram & FB are good for a free portfolio that gives someone interested an easy place to view your work if interested in employing your service or other reason.
Just choose a site you feel comfortable with as they are all the same & all seem to involve that like bottom.
 
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Being relatively new (2 years) into photography I use Insta, we have a pretty good community among bird photographers, particularly within the Australian group. I've tried FB with local Australian groups but like others said FB seems a clicky bunch.... so i it get minimal attention.

I think with most forms of media, it depends largely on how you manage your own account/feed. I'm doing this for me not anyone else.

As far as here is concerned, i hate to say it's changed from what it used to be, hence not interacting here so much anymore...
 
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I have been on seven "Nikon holidays" as I refer to a vacation dedicated to exploring new places and capturing images while there. For the most part, when I return home, family almost never asks to see my photos. I have one person with whom I share my pics, an old friend who at times has been my copilot and navigator on several of those trips. I put all my photos and videos on a flash drive and give it to that person never asking for anything. I share because that old friend makes time for me and wants to be my copilot and navigator.
 
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markymark said:
BCG for me (y)(y)(y)(y)
Saying that I've never done or belong to any other social media sites so can't really give an honest opinion to be honest, but it's been great to hear the pros & cons about them from you guys.
BCG for me is all I need for good honest feedback as it comes from a great bunch of like minded people. (yes, that's you lot!!(y))
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I also only belong to this site and so far I am extremely happy about that.
 
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As much as a sewer as it can be I still use Instagram. I've gotten quite a bit of paid work through it. Besides that it's my website. This forum is great, I also post on the Nikon Cafe which is a breath of fresh air compared to most forums on the internet.
 
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Hut said:
Something I like about Flickr is the ability to share photos here without the hassle of resizing.
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I'll give Flickr a revisit, might be a good option for me. So far I'm finding Behance really interesting, different, and zero (zero) bs / drama. Active group too.

I love BCG (obviously, I'm here :)) but I'm not really considering a closed / private forum as a "social media" sharing platform (forums are a totally different structure).
 
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