Originally posted by Kmier I received an email imploring me to upgrade to Flickr Pro. The rate seems reasonable enough, but I recall what Photobucket did to us a few years back, basically holding our photos hostage for a high fee. Why trust Smug Mug / Flickr, now that the Photobucket precedent has been set? What stops them from jacking prices year over year?
What philosophy works best for an amateur looking to go towards retirement with something like a 645z who would like to occasionally share with friends and family? Any regrets if you are already ‘locked in’ to a particular methodology?
I’m having fun with a 67 / The Darkroom scans / Flickr basic right now, but I have to start making decisions pretty soon, as I’ll either push further into my own film scanning and / or go full digital.
Thanks for your insights; hope this doesn’t seem too fundamental a question, coming from an old schooler.
I have faith in them, but I can't afford them, nor is our internet infrastructure capable of keeping up to date with my workflow.
I'm a professional shooter, I pay for flickr pro. Flickr isn't a backup resource for me, I treat it as a bit of a dumping ground, a place to share images, embed images in forum posts like here at PF, but most of all I find the ability to upload
private albums for clients and share with them the work as we finalise the project to being really useful.
Backing up Jpgs isn't something I care that much about, I need my RAWs backed up, LR Catalogs and such, they matter way more as I can then go back to the RAW file, either reset the image or steer it in another direction or tweak the existing edit and then export as a jpg. Flickr Pro doesn't allow for storage of RAWs.
I bought a 2tb Extreme Sandisk SSD, it is so light and small and I basically work from that, I backup the contents to it frequently to home HDD and always take the SSD with me when out and about, effectively I am the cloud. You must have your data in two separate places as much as possible, the only time I have my data all under one roof is when I am under that same roof, as soon as I leave the house it comes with me, even on short trips. It's like "keys, wallet, ssd"
If you can afford to support Flickr, then do so, I got that same email and they really have improved things since buying flickr, I'd like to support that and the community, they will continue to have my services.