photo query

[arguchik]

i have a question about posting photos online. i have just been using LJ's gallery feature, and it works fine for the pics i want to post in my LJ blog. however, i also have a free flickr account that i am essentially not using because it seems kind of limited/ing. has anyone out there upgraded to a flickr "pro" account ($24.99/annum)? do you like it? what do you like/dislike about it? is it worth the cash? do you use some other online photo tool that you prefer to flickr? is there a better free service out there?

just weighing options. i'm starting to make more use of my digital camera, and i'd like to make some of the photos i take available for friends and family to view.

Comments

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

We use Flickr and pay the annual fee. At the time we started, the big bonus with them was that uploading a lot of pictures in a batch is easy - they have a tool you run where you just drag pictures and drop them onto the tool and it does the rest. I wish they had an easier way to add lots of tags to lots of pictures, where the tags change picture by picture but are from a small set of possible tags. That's the most tedious part. Also, I trust them slightly more paying for it than if it were free - we have all sorts of backups, of course, but it would be horribly tedious if our photo collection just disappeared one day or if they switched to some obnoxious ad-based revenue model. The worst part would be losing all the tags.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

my boutell.com web space has essentially limitless bandwidth and storage space and you could store your stuff in my directory there at no cost.

you could also register a domain name of your own (arguchik.com?) for less than $10 a year and I could host it under my b.com account again at no cost to you - then you could simply say "see my website for photos" or something.