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  1. TheBigEasy

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    #1 TheBigEasy, Mar 20, 2012
    For years my favorite photo hosting site has been Picasa Web Albums... have have over 200 albums perfectly organized and geo-coded with paid extra storage. However now it seems to be going away as they merge the whole system into Google+ which I do not want my photos on.

    I do not want them on Facebook... and I do not like Flikr or Photobucket. I just want a SIMPLE site where I can host my albums sorted by date & sorted by album title... and view a world map with pins on all my album locations. No face-tagging. No sharing on an open public site... I just want to have a private link that I can share with my family. Not search engine visible.

    What would be really nice is if there was a web tool (like a Word Press plugin) where I could just have all the albums hosted on my own domain.. but when you go to the site you have to put a password in to view the photos.
     
  2. 4REphotographer

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    #2 4REphotographer, Mar 20, 2012
    I know you said you don't like Flickr, but it'd probably be the easiest to use and you can make everything private and so no one can see anything. Other than that I've heard good things about SmugMug, not sure they do the map though.
     
  3. Billy10mm

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    #3 Billy10mm, Mar 20, 2012
    I do just that (the WordPress thing). And I can password code each post. You'd have to find a geo-tagging plugin, but I'm quite happy with the results for my personal family-sharing photos:

    http://billyngphotography.com
     
  4. Zack

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    #4 Zack, Mar 25, 2012
    Nice pics, Bill. Wonderful compositions on the family pics--made me smile instantly with their playfulness and natural poses. You are very talented at capturing the mood and the moment(s)! Is it me or are some of the skin tones off? Do you not want to post process, or have you just not got around to doing it? Or do you want to keep them as they are? Some seem washed out by the flash--at least, to me.

    Love the twilight skies. Beautiful. And the purplish tinged one from the prolonged night exposure. Very artistic.

    Also, each pic's metadata says 30 sec exposure. Surely that can't be right. Is that a default value that's inserted when none is supplied by the picture, or am I missing something?

    Thank you for sharing your work.
     
  5. Billy10mm

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    #5 Billy10mm, Mar 27, 2012
    Which posts are you referring to?

    As an Irishman, I'm fairly pale and tend to warm the skin-tones a bit, and in some cases I will de-saturate pics if I'm going for a certain look - yes, I post-process all pics (though typically very lightly). The only ones washed out by flash that I know of are the ones with my kids in their box car. I wasn't home for those, my wife got out my D200 and used the popup flash which is why they look the way they do. Other than that there is no on-camera direct flash anywhere in my photography.

    What twilight skies and purplish tinge are you referring to? And all of my pics have correct meta-data, not sure why you seem to seem everything as being 30 seconds unless you're looking only at some of my landscapes, 30 seconds is a time I use fairly frequently to get a little cloud movement.
     

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