Monday, October 11, 2010

The Pros and Cons of The Online Photography Business

Photo sharing is the biggest advantage of the internet. How fast you can upload your photos and send them to your friends or put them on your Facebook or Twitter page. Photo sharing has become the easiest way of communication on the web. Photographs are an extremely accessible property on the internet, one search on Google finds all. Photo sharing can be used positively on the web, for online dating, reconnecting with friends, business opportunities etc. however photo sharing on the web also leads to various identity thefts and property theft as well as defamation. This is besides the fact that pictures posted on the World Wide Web can never be completely taken off the internet. No matters what contracts say, the web is one place that can never 100% guarantee your privacy. Content on the web floats in cyber space for years and years. It takes highly sophisticated technologist to wipe out your picture should it have suffered from defamation, and even that is not guaranteed to wipe everything.

Some popular photo sharing sites are Photobucker, Flickr and Picasa. These websites provide great pictures by good photographers with amazing quality. Users can access these photos but have to purchase them. However anyone who used copy-paste can copy the pictures but the logo will be on them. Now people (just regular teens) have the techniques to removing these logos off the pictures to use them. The rising concern today is that the internet is the place of many kinds of fraud and since Photography is a business matter. more and more business deals are being made online Business deals online must be made with utmost care. Photographer shave suffered from stolen pictures off their online portfolios. Photographers online have no way of retrieving photos after they have been stolen and cannot retrieve any lost profits either. However they have keep up with the moving technology and have online portfolios available.


1 comment:

  1. There are a lot of benefits that are involved with online photography as they were mentioned. It is convenient, opens possibilities, allows you to share, and networks available to broadcast these photographs. On the opposite side, there are many negatives about online photography. Two of the main negatives that were mentioned was safety and privacy. I see a negative in a larger form. Real photographers are now less valuable because people from anywhere can post photos and become well known, compared to the hard working photographers that have much experience and loose business because of this new epidemic. Just like the music industry, photographers are losing value and credit for their work. Because of online photography, real educated photographers can also use it to their advantage to post and create websites for their photos to become well known. It is becoming more and more competitive out there. The fact of the matter is, it is no longer between professionals; amateurs are now becoming a threat.

    This link is a video that explains how photography has evolved and the options that are available today. It shows how easy it is to post or share and load onto the net. By showing online techniques and how to share photos, this video tells all.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wZ5K0eG5wk

    Stephanie Macedo

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