Important things to remember when uploading photos to internet

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Internet is a vast ocean of goodies. You can find anything and everything in it. The very first reason why you think of uploading your pics on to the web is because you got inspired by what you saw at the first place.

Let me tell you few things about which you should know and do when you put stuff on the web. There are nothing complicated or hard to adjust about these points.

1. Add a watermark. You know that something which says that the photo is taken by you and it belongs to you. Like “Priyantha Bandara photography” Which I have on my work. Its helps to make an audience and prevent your work from used in places which you don’t want. And when you put the watermark place it in a place where it’s hard to take off. If you place it right on the border someone will remove it easily and claim the work is theirs.

2. Don’t upload photos in high resolution. Always down size it because who ever use internet don’t want to waste their bandwidth on big photos which take forever to download. Any way if the photo is looking good and has a decent size that’s all what you require to show it.

3. Don’t flood your work or ‘spam’ your own work. Which means do not upload dozens of photos to the web at once. The best of galleries on the web were filled with years of work gradually. Not over night. My rule is max 5-10 shots for a new album and 3 for new additions to that album. If it’s a open gallery like Deviant art I will upload max 1-2 images a week.

4. Choose what you upload wisely. Maybe you think some photo stream looks good. Maybe some several shots of a bird feeding its little ones. But uploading them entirely won’t do good. Fans visit your page to see a photo. Not a mini documentary. Choose only the one or two best shots out of the lot and post those only.

5. Keep some information about the shot when ever its appropriated. Maybe the location of a landscape or the name of the bird etc. It helps.

6. Categorize your shots. If you have the facility to name the albums or upload them in pre defined categories use it accordingly. Unless you have bunch of shots which does not need categorization. Always keep the albums neat. I would upload landscapes and waterscapes separately. And other shots on a theme. Maybe depending on the trip made. Something like “Katharagama” Which has a bundled value than uploaded individually in different albums. But there are no rules for this. It’s your photos after all.

Hope this information will be useful. Let me know your comments and suggestions as well.

Showing art to the community 2 - Places you must visit

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Now that my facebook photography page is published and usable I thought of writing a bit more about showing art to the community. This will come as the extension to my previous post. Today I will express my thoughts (Or rather reviews) of some photo sharing sites which I had interactions with.

At the initial stage I have published my work on flickr. Many of you must be having flickr accounts and must be knowing how it works. I actually liked my flickr account and the feedback I was getting but there was something missing. At that time flickr was not very user friendly in interactions. Mostly about keeping track of your fellow fans and keeping track of artists. There was less flexibility in notification systems which helps you to track the new work uploaded by the artists that you currently interested in. And little options of messaging and ratings as well. And after some time flickr started to get pretty slow as well. Guess at that time flickr was one of the most busiest sites on the internet (Thankfully facebook was not invented by then!!) I can’t remember the actually time period but it made me a bit lazy to check out flickr as time went by

Don’t ask me how its pronounced coz I don’t think even all the admins know that lol. But the site actually is pretty cool. Caedes is more of a wallpaper gallery at the inception. Therefore it had limitation of uploading photos. Photos were resized to several sizes depending on the most popular pc desktop ratios. The good thing about that was that all the photos and artwork was in pretty big size. And the community was really friendly and chatty as well. I met some real nice people there mostly from USA and UK. Some of them still keep contact up to date. How nice that is. Later on Caedes gave a break to the artists by allowing to update photos as photo formats rather than wallpaper sizes. And they were once in the top 5 list of photography upload sites on PC.com (If I remember clearly. Correct me if I'm wrong fellas) Check that place out if you can. They have some stunning wallpapers if you’re hungry for any.

I have spent hours and hours on caedes for several months until one day I found the wholly grail of art on internet. DEVIANTART.

If I say Deviantart is just a site which makes you upload photographs and your other forms of art I will be just talking about a fraction of what you can really do there. In simple words DA (in short form) is freaking amazing and mind blowing journey in to a artistic wonderland. DA contains the most amazing.. I will tell it again.. the MOST AMAZING pieces of art and photography which you can never finish browsing on your whole life. Yes that’s how fantastic this place is. World’s most talented and upcoming artists of all kinds share their work in this place. Since I’m a big fan of drawing as well DA supply me a daily dose of art which keeps my artistic nerves pumped 24x7. If someone ask me what the best place that you can upload photo on internet I will say Deviantart. However because of the sheer awesomeness of this place there are millions of fans roam around and same way millions of artists who are hoping to get discovered. But getting discovered in Deviantart is that much harder because of the same reasons. DA is too big & too much to be handled by many. If you have enough time to surf around the net then go for it. It will take some time for you to really get the taste and learn how to find the best work there. But once you get that taste you will never look at any other place. And it will totally change the way you interact with the community and your views on any kind of art. Trust me!!

Currently I’m one of the most famous photographers in Deviantart who represent SRI LANKA. There are only few local talent in there. So why not join it and make use of it while its free. I'm here

Hmmmm facebook. Many hear this word even in their sleep these days. So no introduction is required. Currently the most famous social networking experience on internet. If you don’t know what facebook is go take a hike and ask some aborigine. Even they know!! I have my own profile page and recently launched fan page as well. The only good thing I like about facebook is that it made me to increase my interactions with local artists. Show them my work and get feedback. Therefore I like it. But as a place for an artist for his artistic requirement facebook is still not matured enough. Maybe in due course. But not just yet. My facebook page address is right on top of this post so check it out some time.

So that’s about it. There were some other sites as well which I had uploaded some of my work but most of them are stock photo sites and small size ones. There for I will write about them on a later stage. If you have come across any good sites which turns to be better than what I have mentioned above do share. Adios for now!