Posting Photos

Don Mason - Nottingham UK

But I'm buggered if I am going to just put ALL my half-million or so photos into 'somewhere-in-cyberspace' just in case I might want to post one onto a forum at some time.

No need to, Don. Create a Photobucket account, which is password protected. Add only as many – or as few – photos as you want. Make your album 'private', which prevents any Tom, Diq & Harry looking at your pics. But you can still post selected pictures to this (or any other) forum, and forum users will be able to see them. It's secure, and you have complete control over who has access.

Don Mason - Nottingham UK

And what happens if the hard disk on that 'unknown' server in some unknown place goes 'pfft' one day?  All my photos gone. Permanently. Nope - they stay firmly in my own home on my own PC and on my own carefully protected back-up drives.

When you upload photos to 'Photobucket' (or any online picture hosting service) your photos still remain on your PC – you're just uploading copies. In fact many people use an online pic hosting site as an external back-up for their pics. It's private, secure, and if (for example) your house burnt down with all of your computers/ back-up hard-drives in it, you'd still have copies of your photos online.

What is stopping you creating a photobucket account just for your model pictures. You only need to upload those photos you want to share in exactly the same way as you do on facebook and then you can show them on forums. You certainly don't need to upload all of your photos.

You could even go so far as to create one photobucket account per forum if you wanted to restrict it even further.

You miss the point Pawel - I have no objection whatsoever to posting individual selected photos from my own hard drive on other forums, or Face Book, or wherever. They are photos which I specifically choose for sharing on-line and which I upload from my own hard drive.

But I'm buggered if I am going to just put ALL my half-million or so photos into 'somewhere-in-cyberspace' just in case I might want to post one onto a forum at some time. And what happens if the hard disk on that 'unknown' server in some unknown place goes 'pfft' one day?  All my photos gone. Permanently. Nope - they stay firmly in my own home on my own PC and on my own carefully protected back-up drives.

If you are really interested in seeing my modelling work (mainly railways and 'space' stuff, then by all means look up my Face Book page, where I do  post a lot of stuff.

https://www.facebook.com/don.mason.370

- Don

Sad to tell you, Don - but the other forums, that allow posting pictures directly, are situated on servers in some unknown place, and strangers can view them and use them as they please all over the world - that's just internet. You also have a slightly different option - do like I do - I rented me a part of a server, where I have my www page and I can put my pictures there. Still, once they are online, I have no control over what people do with them - that's the price you pay for letting them be seen all over the world.

I still would like to take a look at your work, and these forums have lots of nice and talented people onboard, so maybe you could reconsider? I hope you will, good luck with your projects and have a nice day

Paweł

Thanks for that, Pavel.  Sadly in that case I cannot post here, as there is no way in hell that I am putting my photos on some external file sharing site, or anywhere else on the net.

I like to know exactly what and where my photos are and who is seeing them and I am not putting them on some server run by some unknown person in some unknown place with no control over where they might be used, or for what purpose. No way.

But thanks for the info all the same. I'll stick to forums which allow attachments to be posted.

Don.

Hello Don!

That's exactly the trick here - you don't post the photos from your hard disk on the forums here. You can only post photos that are already on the Web. Then you just put the URL (http://www........ and so on) in the box (the location - on the Web). To put the photo you want from your computer to the Web, you usually use some file sharing service - like Flickr, Photobucket or something like this - here's the list to chose from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo-sharing_websites

Those pages services then give you an URL to the picture that you use to post it on these forums.

Complicated? Well it's for cheapness, because it saves Kalmbach, the ownerof the forums, gigabytes of storage space on their servers.

I hope it helps you, looking forward to see your builds, good luck with 'em and have a nice day

Paweł