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From time to time we like to write about our interests. Actually, everyday we have info we would love to share with our readers however as everyone knows time and priorities are rarely kind.

Online Photo Sharing and Common Craft

As I have mentioned in the past, I have typically taken full control over both web presence and content management (mainly photos). However, I am exploring the notion of leveraging photo sharing sites mainly for backups and video sites so I don’t have to take up a lot of hard drive space. I will have a much more in-depth post soon on this topic, but I came across this video from one of my favorite tutorial websites, Common Craft, that I just had to share.

For anyone that has been doing photography and an active participant of the social web lately this will not be anything new, but it is so well done I felt compelled to share.

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January 11, 2008
Mark Wallace said: Very cool video. I love how they explain things in a way that's easy to understand. This video definitely passes my "mom test". The "mom test" is simple: would my mom understand this? When I'm creating educational content for the masses I try to have everything pass the mom test. Flickr and other sites are great unless you have large files or are a pro photographer. If you are managing licenses for clients posting images on the web can spell big trouble because people can steal them. Flickr is also a bad choice if you need to back up RAW files. For pro shooters I recommend an external RAID like a drobo. They're not cheap, but it's better than losing your entire library! For blogs and web sharing I think Flickr is awesome. I used it for my online courses and use it for blogging from my iPhone. You can e-mail a picture to Flickr and have Flicker automatically reformat and post it to your blog. It's very slick I also love the Flickr groups. StudioLighting.net uses Flickr groups to facilitate discussion about it's LightSource podcast. Very cool stuff!

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