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Privacy reasons are certainly the main concern.
The second concern is bandwidth. Stripping EXIF information makes images considerably lighter at web-sizes. This makes it a better experience of 99% of viewers who do not care about how the image was made.
Lastly, the information may not exist. A lot of images on the web are composites, be it HDR/Exposure ...
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If you can set up your Raspberry Pi to listen on WiFi, my suggestion is as follows:
Install imagemagick on the Pi to get the convert utility.
Set up the Pi with an SSID and NFS/SMB/whatever shared folder to receive the images.
Script something in bash like for x in *.jpg; do convert -resize 50% $x; done. You can poll the folder on the Pi for changes, too, ...
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Privacy and default export settings (like Itai said) do play an important role but there's another factor
A photographer may research a location, travel there in the right time of year, wake up at unreasonable hours to get there on time for sunrise - again and again and again waiting for the perfect weather, obsess about the exact camera location and take ...
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At least according to Wikipedia, these types of sites can be referred to as geolocation-oriented photo sharing sites.
Here is the list of what I use:
Flickr Map
Google Maps(Click on "Photos" feature)
Photosynth on Bing Maps(I click into it from the PS site)
Google Earth
Panoramio(The same as the two above) - More info at StackOverFlow
Stuck On ...
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With a current round of updates to Media functionality in the last few months, I am finding that WordPress (self-hosted) is becoming my go-to solution for photo sharing. Here is how using WordPress can meet your requirements:
Events Based Photo Sharing
How you define an 'event' and 'grouping' is certainly up to interpretation, but if you were to create a ...
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Bandwidth is not a concern. It's restricted to 64kb, which is nothing.
But as mentioned, programs can strip the data. If you photoshop a picture that information can appear in the EXIF data. Maybe they don't want you to know they photoshopped. :P
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Photo Mechanic is one of the most widely used products by photojournalists due to the speed you can read your cards, scan thumbnails, add metatdata and upload images. It's a standalone program which runs on Mac and Windows - I don't think there's a version for Linux.
If you have a Eye-Fi card, Photo Mechanic can monitor folders for new files as you shoot ...
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I have not used it, have just looked at the sample chapters. A few thoughts, both pro and con:
the author has a photography business and (slow-loading flash) website. If you like the look of her website, it would most likely use the principles she describes in the e-book. So you may be able to judge the value of the ebook by the quality of her website, ...
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SmugMug allows you to upload unlimited photos at high resolution and you can access them via API / oEmbed.
http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/API/Home
Even easier, you can just get a direct link to the resource and make it the 'href' of an HTML 'a'nchor tag.
http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93260-how-do-i-post-my-photos-in-forums-and-blogs
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I'd like to chime in, albiet a bit late. Sharpening is not a one-size-fits-all thing. In an ideal world, you would sharpen each image individually for optimal results. This isn't an ideal world and most people who process volumes of images want some compromise setting that gives a good effect most of the time.
Rule of thumb 1: Never sharpen at other than ...
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Is there a way for various online photo services to import the same keywords/tags added in Lighroom?
Lightroom is great about using the fairly standard EXIF and ITPC meta fields for things. Keywords, for example, are stored in the keywords field. Since those are standard fields, other programs and websites can read that meta, also. It's actually pretty simple to do in most languages; I've written some Perl stuff with Exiftool to read/write this meta.
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Is there a way for various online photo services to import the same keywords/tags added in Lighroom?
That depends on how you upload to the photo service and/or how the photo service's API is implemented in Lightroom 4 (if you use LR4). I know that if you use LR4's syncing platform that it'll upload keywords etc of the photos to SmugMug.com (just tried it) and keep those keywords in sync if you change them. I haven't tried Flickr's syncing but I'd assume ...
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The Professional Photographers of America maintains a "Find a Photographer" directory of its members: http://www.ppa.com/findaphotographer/
The American Society of Media Photographers also maintains a similar directory: http://asmp.org/find-a-photographer
Both directories allow members to post some representative images and both organizations are ...
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Take a look at Piwigo, open source gallery software for the web.
Events Based Photo Sharing: you can group your photos by album. Piwigo supports several levels of albums (as much as you need).
Private: you can make the whole gallery private or just make a few albums or photos private. User "john" may be permitted to see album "eventA" and "eventB" and user ...
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lightroom has a web gallery setup already. Some like it. Some don't.
A number of people have already built add-on plug-ins to do web galleries and similar publishing systems. One of the best known is LRP Portfolio: http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/smccormack/lrbportfolio/
photographer's toolbox is a good resource for starting research on ...
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You simply need to set a low enough resolution. Set the image size no larger than the number of pixels to be displayed in the browser. Screen resolutions are generally lower than print, but it's still going to look "ok" printed by most people's definition even though it will clearly not be professional quality.
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To put some rule-of-thumb numbers to it: a print resolution of about 300dpi is required for a high-quality print, but for non-picky print many people will be fine with 100dpi. Below that, even non-skilled viewers will probably object.
So, in order to reduce the image below what might make a great print at 5x7, 1500x2100 pixels is the threshold. That's more ...
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There are several web sites which collect information on camera models and provide convenient ways to narrow down to specific options that fit what you need. My favorite is part of the the Neocamera site. You can use the Camera Search to narrow down the field by camera type and by focal length in 35mm equivalent terms.
"35mm equivalent" is a little ...
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If the images are often appearing to be over-sharpened, but you haven't noticed images being under-sharpened, then it's a good sign that you are simply sharpening them too much.
Try decreasing the "amount" argument until you get more satisfactory results. For example, try halving it, then halving it again, until you notice that it's about right.
I ...
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From reading the comments, the products are "high end watches and jewelry" where attention to fine detail is paramount in their manufacture and marketing. It is reasonable to expect those same qualities to be applied across the business and certainly to recording and presenting those products where once sold may never be seen again. That "little bit ...
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Sensor size has significant impacts on how the image is focused on to the sensor. The larger the sensor, the further from the focal point the sensor sits and the shallower the depth of field can be made. Since the light has longer to diverge, the angle of focused light is more tightly controlled.
This is effectively the same as the reason for a Full ...
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Photoshop has a batch-gallery creator (from a folder) and so you'll get also thumbnails and big-images
File -> Automate -> Web Photo Gallery => Check the Options select box
Update: I used and liked XnView - http://www.xnview.com/ I can see it also has a linux version. It's way light than Photoshop
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I just recently started using Dropbox for my personal photos. If you have less than 2.5g of images and you generate less than 20GB per day per link, you may be able to use Dropbox's free space.
I shy away from using it for hosting non-personal photos simply because I don't know if some companies would block dropbox. I'd prefer that my professional site ...
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As Russell pointed out, this only makes sense when the user has little computing power but high bandwidth. That may happen sometimes, but usually it will be the opposite.
Computing power is plentiful and cheap. When people are at their usual workplace, they most likely have abundant computing power. That's also when they probably have the best internet ...
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Few years ago I found a site which processed raw pictures but there were a few problems.
Professionals and amateurs were an interesting group of users, but they mainly already have good image processing software. Secondly, users don't trust, so they don't want to upload images.
Another problem is saving the picture. Most of us want to keep the processed ...
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If it was very low cost per image or (preferably)(of course) free, and had low usage overhead, and worked well and you definitely did not lose or assign any rights to your images and they were secure against external access THEN I'd potentially find it useful.
Attractions are the ability to have a range of features (if that was the case) not available in ...
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Smugmug (the basic version) definitely fits all your criteria, and personnally I like the way the galleries are displayed. They have a decent API, so for example I wrote a script that I use to automatically backup all of my photos, since you have unlimited hosting. I use Linux and therefore Digikam, and it has smugmug plugins for upload.
You can set up ...
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There are a number of different lines of thought on this issue, and it seems that each one vehemently defends itself as the "one true way" to sharpen your image. In my experience, it comes down to personal preference and the specific image that you're working. Keep in mind that "sharpness" is really just an area of high contrast along an edge or line in ...
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Have a look at Webshots. You can decide if you want to make a photo/album personal or public. I haven't used if for a while, but am considering starting using it again.
It also has other features that may be of interest (pro photos to view or buy, e-cards etc, and a desktop/screensaver software that you can link to your account)
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If you don't mind a bit of coding, I can personally recommend Pwinty. They have a simple RESTful API for ordering prints that you invoke from your site. You are responsible for billing etc. and they then invoice every month. This gives you complete control over everything and is very professional. Your prints can be shipped with your invoice and branding so ...
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