blogging photographs

August 13, 2010 12:30 PM

Can anyone suggest a great company to use for a blogging photos?
posted by tangyraspberry to Computers & Internet (15 answers total)

You're looking for a photographer?
posted by mr_roboto at 12:32 PM on August 13, 2010

Do you mean you want to host photos? Or where to get stock photos for your blog?
posted by griphus at 12:34 PM on August 13, 2010

Or do you want an image blog, like tumblr?
posted by Admiral Haddock at 12:43 PM on August 13, 2010

What do you want to do?
posted by Jaltcoh at 12:51 PM on August 13, 2010

If you mean that you want photos to accompany your blog posts, then the usual choice is CC-licensed material from Flickr. Just make sure that you check the licensing terms for each photo that you want to use.
posted by Rhomboid at 12:57 PM on August 13, 2010

Response by poster: sorry for being unclear, I meant that I wanted to find something like flickr to hoist my photos on.
posted by tangyraspberry at 1:24 PM on August 13, 2010

Tell us why Flickr isn't a good match, that would help a great deal.
posted by MikeWarot at 1:27 PM on August 13, 2010

Tell us why Flickr isn't a good match, that would help a great deal

If flickr 'catches' you using them as a hosting service, they'll shut down your account.
posted by tetralix at 1:39 PM on August 13, 2010

Unfortunately that's still not really enough information to answer the question. How much traffic/bandwidth will the photos get? How much storage do you need? What kind of controls (e.g. referer/hotlinking control, logging) do you want? Are you looking for something free or are you looking to pay? If the answers tend towards the side of 'not much' then you can probably use a free image hosting service like imgur.com, tinypic.com, imageshack.us, and about a thousand others. If you have higher bandwidth requirements then you might need a paid account, and if you want the most control then you'll want an actual web host as opposed to an image host.
posted by Rhomboid at 1:48 PM on August 13, 2010

If flickr 'catches' you using them as a hosting service, they'll shut down your account.

what? it's perfectly kosher to post photos from flickr to your blog or any other site, as long as you link back to flickr.
posted by lia at 2:18 PM on August 13, 2010 [1 favorite]

If you're willing to pay, smugmug is good, and allows embedding of photos from all account levels. No limits on storage or bandwidth.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 2:21 PM on August 13, 2010

what? it's perfectly kosher to post photos from flickr to your blog or any other site, as long as you link back to flickr.

I don't even know you have to link back. I mean, I always assumed this was why they were giving me HTML links to copy and paste, so I could embed my pictures elsewhere. You can't steal other's photos obviously, but for your own it's totally legit.

In fact, the new Flickr has a button named "Blog this" under the "share" menu!
posted by drjimmy11 at 2:27 PM on August 13, 2010

re: Flickr:

Do link back to Flickr when you post your Flickr content elsewhere.
The Flickr service makes it possible to post content hosted on Flickr to outside web sites. However, pages on other web sites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr. (link)

posted by misterbrandt at 9:51 PM on August 13, 2010

I recommend Flickr.
posted by Jaltcoh at 1:39 PM on August 14, 2010

Sorry, think I misinterpreted--flickr doesn't let you host random collections of images that are not photos you took. I see people doing that from time to time and somehow thought that's what the question was about.
posted by tetralix at 6:28 PM on August 17, 2010