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I was just wondering if anyone had galleries set up of their work. I like photo.net's set up but wanted to see where other people had their work posted. I also wanted to see other people's work in general, travel shots or not!

How about you eeyartee!!!!

PC

Hahaha. I just told you about my photos in another topic.

Anyway, it's here:

http://www.theglobaltrip.com/photos

They are scans from slides and prints. No digital cameras here!

e.

http://www.theglobaltrip.com

i have some stuff at www.worldisround.com

i love that site. such a nice way to waste away the hours

worldisround

If you want a large community of people sharing photos, then http://www.deviantart.com is the place to see everything. More stock photos and photoshop manipulations than personal albums, but plenty of variety.

I personally use http://www.printroom.com/pictureSearch.asp?userid=europe2001. I know of OFOTO and yahoo, and other free sites, but printroom had 200 meg of space to offer, and nowhere else could beat that... except that they don't host URL's, so I haven't been able to personally share photos. Example: in the the other thread for favorite travel photo, I had to use www.villagephotos.com, which works, but I wouldn't praise.

On that note, does anyone else know of a good(meaning free) image host provider that will allow URL sharing?

I see some people host their own albums on their own domains, but I guess I'm just cheap.

I'm a photo.net regular for years now, you can chek out my portfolio here and here

I also have a gallery at my own website

madnomad photography

Hey Nikos.

Love your shot of the Glass Pyramid inside the Louvre. Great perspective.

I'm just interested in seeing other BnA people's work. Of course, I forgot to post my own link, so here is it. It's not very travel related, but more general type stuff.

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=294427
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=294428
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=293549

PC

Nice! It's funny to see people one already knows from one forum into another forum on the net.. it's starting to become a small place

I left my comments on some of your photos at photo.net

madnomad photography

Hey Nikos.

Yeah, I know the contrast is crap. My scanner seems to do weird things. I love the prints but hate the scans. I always get jealous when I see awesome scans from prints bc I can never seem to achieve that!

PC

The best way to get good scans is to ask the photo lab to give you a cd with negative/slide scans when you take the films for development. The extra cost is not huge and when you have some 100-500 photos from a trip it really saves you a lot of time and provides a good quality digital images as well.

madnomad photography

Hey Nikos.

Well, here they charge you and arm and a leg. I had one lab try and tell me that for EACH NEG/SLIDE it was $35+ a scan. Granted thats at a prof lab. But still. Basically, most labs around here can't be bothered. I'm not sure why that is.

I think next time I'll go for the cheapie developing at Target and get a cd made....

PC

I get my scans at the local shop here for about $30 a CD. A CD contains about 200-350 images depending on tha resolution that I choose. This is my usual output from a one-month trip. Considering that the development and printing associated with so many images is about $80-$100, the added cost for the CD isn't such a big deal, and it makes online publishing and photoshop post-processing very easy.

madnomad photography

Don't know why this is bold, but anyway....

The local lab here wanted $35/ negative, not per CD. So let's see $35*36negs* how many rolls? Whoa expensive. I have to find another lab, this one SUCKS!!!! If you want medium format scanned they just laugh at you. I hear that there are places out west though that will scan all your stuff for reasonable prices and send you back a cd. I need to look into it more.

PC

Look, if it's just one negative that you want scanned it is surely going to cost something, because there is a fixed fee for someone to get into the trouble of picking it up, operating the scanner and burning a CD for you.

But of course, if you want lots of negatives the price scaling is not linear.

My lab charges $15 for a CD even if it contains one image. But $35 for a full CD. So an image may cost anywhere from $0.10 to $15 to get scanned and stored.

Surely some professional slide scanning on top equipment and at a resolution and post-processing that makes it ready to send to a print publication could possibly cost $35 at a pro shop. But it is inconceivable to me that you wouldn't find a lab with decent consumer or pro-sumer prices in the US nowadays.

madnomad photography

NIkos,

This is NY. Everything is expensive here, especially photography labs. Labs are like "you are at the center of the photography universe". So much so that some of my professional friends send their work out to the midwest to get developed/printed/scanned, whatever.

I'd be more than happy to pay $35 a cd. That's peanuts. However, when all I want is some decent res scans (nothing super crazy) of a 30 or so slides, it gets a little pricey.

Ahh well. What can you do?

PC

Right, I can see why in NY things ought to be more expensive, it is reasonable to some extent. I used to live in London for a few years, where everything was absurdly expensive, for similar reasons. But not as much as what you describe for your lab.. Joe's Basement in London, a very good pro shop would charge twice what the average corner shop, but not 10x

madnomad photography

In any case, if you are ever around Greece, drop me a line and I can show you around some photogenic places in the area..

madnomad photography

Nikos,

Hey. What sort of place is Joe's Basement? They have a good range of films, etc? I might wind up restocking there before I got to Delhi.

PC

West Brompton Road (if I'm not mistaken) at bout the middle of the street, it's not a very big one, lots of bars and theatres around. This is in central London

It's an excellent place with a wide selection of films, papers, chemical and very good lab service.

Best place in town for this kind of thing, at least as far as I know.

madnomad photography

Rock on Nikos.

Thanks for the tip.

PC

Nikos, what do you do when you're not this great photographer guy? (i.e. for a living?)

e.

http://www.theglobaltrip.com