Just yesterday my photography portfolio went online at CHRISSP.com. Some quick information about what is going to happen there:
- I am going to publish one photograph every Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 00:00 (GMT + 1:00)
- All pictures which are published there are licensed under the Creative Commons License (by-nc-sa)
Thats the formal part.
The Way I Publish my Photography
I bought my DSLR about 1.8 years ago since than I took quiet a lot photographs. My problem always was that I searched a way to publish them the right way. One possibility would have been my Flickr Account or a SmugMug Account. But Somehow I have a problem with this two services. With Flickr the problem was that I had not found any way to upload photographs scheduled which I definitely need for this Monday / Tuesday / Friday schedule (now I found one way but I still want a extra Portfolio but I am going to upload the pictures also to Flickr (same day / time system as with the Portfolio). With SmugMug the problem is, that it is a little to expensive for me.
In the end I decided to get the Domain CHRISSP.com and publish my Photography Portfolio there with an WordPress installation and a theme — coded and designed by my self — which is specially thought to be a portfolio with just one image per posts and heavy usage of Custom Fields, some PHP to get the EXIF information and the different sizes saved in the Media Library of WordPress.
The scheduled Flickr upload is done over email via LetterMeLater.com which is an email services though which you can send emails at a scheduled date and time to any email address. The photograph as an attachment — one problem: it only lets you attache an attachment less than 2MB in size (that is the reason why the photographs at flickr are a bit less in quality than at my Portfolio).
This is the overview how I do my publishing with my Portfolio. I hope you like my shots and please feel free and comment at flickr / send me an email with any thoughts. If you like to use a photograph without a commercial use you are free to do that but I would like you to send me an email to let me know that, thanks!
All in all go and have a look: CHRISSP.com or Flickr
