Digital Boudoir Photography : A Step-by-step Guide to ... - Ken Gilbert

Step 18: Sharing Your Images
If you have a hot photograph, don’t call the fire
department; share it!
The Steps
There are a number of ways to share your photographs with others and many reasons
for wanting to. In some cases, you simply want to show other photographers what you
are doing and get feedback. In other cases, you may want to have a website to show
potential clients samples of your work. You may want to try licensing your images as
stock photography or to sell fine-art prints. You might want to just show friends and
keep it somewhat private. There are electronic and physical means to share your
images:
n You can send a print or show your portfolio.
n You can send images on a CD or DVD.
n You can e-mail your images.
n You can put them on a website.
We talked about a printing the images in Step 17. We have also described
the printed portfolio in Step 2 and will mention it again in the next step,
Step 19.
It is easy to transfer images to a CD or DVD. In modern computers, with
the right software (usually available built-in on your computer), you simply
drag a folder of images to the software that will “burn” them onto the
CD or DVD. In addition, there are a number of programs that will allow
you to create a slideshow of images. Photoshop will allow you to do this, as
well as a number of free or inexpensive shareware programs. Once you create
a slideshow, you simply drag it onto the CD through the software and
burn a copy. Some software will allow you to make a slideshow that will
play on a home DVD player. Although a computer is required to create
the slideshow and burn it on the DVD (your computer will need to have a
DVD burner built in or attached as an external device), no computer will
be needed to play it back if you have created it with the proper software.
Most e-mail programs will easily allow you to attach images before sending
them. It is best that your images are sized somewhat smaller (say no larger
than 4 × 6 at 72 ppi) and you only attach a couple to any single e-mail.
Some people’s e-mail system cannot easily handle the large files that are
typical of photographs. Be sure to let the recipient know that you will be
sending the photographs so she won’t think it is a virus or spam.
The final method mentioned, putting images on a website, has the most variations.
There are photo-sharing websites, photo forum/critique websites, and, of course, creating
your own website. If you are not familiar with the photo-sharing websites such
as flickr.com, you should check them out. Go to your favorite search engine and type
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